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Started by: priscus (inactive)

Do traders quote totally artificial and fictitious recommended retail prices, so they can hook customers with banners declaring 20% off, and suchlike?

I think that when shops declare sale prices, the item must have been offered for sale at the comparative higher price.
(It seems usually offered at the high price in Aberdeen!)

Bit meaningless though in respect of on-line trading, where it will cost the vendor nowt to have also quoted a price above what is normally being charged.

I have a list of stuff (costing between £50 and £300) which I need to purchase. I have been price watching in respect of these for a while.

This weekend, of course, what with Black Friday, and Cyber Monday, has seen a flurry of hype, and deluge of promotional emails, but they are not real discounts, being reduction from a price which was totally fictitious to begin with.

Amazon appear to be the worst offender, and are not offering best deal for ANY items on my list.

I have saved 100% at Amazon: I have not bought their crap!

ps I know there is a Black Friday thread running, but it is the inflated RRP, that has me moved to post and see if others are finding the same.

Started: 27th Nov 2017 at 18:13

Posted by: tomplum (12354) 

I've often wondered how anyone can offer a 70% discount, if thats a genuine offer then someones makeing megabucks on the real price,

Replied: 27th Nov 2017 at 18:22

Posted by: PeterP (11223)

20-30 years ago MFI sold items which were 60/70% off the RRP so nowt's changed.How can any one compare a RRP when this price was inflated in the 1st place and no one can track this inflated price

Replied: 27th Nov 2017 at 19:53

Posted by: broady (inactive)

We have just bought an artificial Christmas Tree with a 50% discount and I said exactly the same thing. I would NEVER have paid the full price.

Replied: 27th Nov 2017 at 20:37

Posted by: PeterP (11223)

broady but how do you know you have not paid the full price

Replied: 27th Nov 2017 at 21:19

Posted by: tomplum (12354) 

Selling coals to Newcastle comes to mind, Canada is nothing but a land of trees and lakes, It seems to me a waste of money buying a tree when you are surrounded by them, Why not just plant one in the yard ( Canadian talk for garden) if there's not one already there, and put lights on it,

Replied: 27th Nov 2017 at 21:39

Posted by: priscus (inactive)

I used to do just that, tom, although it was not really by intention. The late Mrs priscus always wanted a huge tree: I often had to cut a foot or so off the base for them to fit in the room.

I used to hate the waste, and the hassle of disposal after the event, so switched to buying rooted trees. Read that they don't stand up to being brought in every year, but OK if you have two, and alternate, bring each in once every two years.

Worked, just about, first time round, but two years growing in the garden, and the once twelve-feet high tree was now more than TWENTY feet tall! No way they were ever going to be brought indoors again!

In retrospect, I should have root-pruned them, a la bonzei.

Replied: 27th Nov 2017 at 22:29

Posted by: broady (inactive)

I don’t PeterP and I don’t think I ever will. I think it was worth what I paid for it when I look at ( the price reduced) competition.

Replied: 28th Nov 2017 at 03:23

Posted by: fossil (7728)

@tomplum
😀😀😀

Good idea that broady,very practical.
Get one in the yard 😀

Replied: 28th Nov 2017 at 05:35

Posted by: Anne (4384) 

An accountant friend who taught accountancy always insisted students should consider the true value of any item bought, sold or reduced was worth exactly the price paid regardless of claims to the contrary.

Replied: 28th Nov 2017 at 07:48

Posted by: Stardelta (11829)

Absolutely. Advertising an item at a price is one thing, actually selling it at that price is another. In some markets the advertised price is one where negotiations can be expected to start from, example new cars.

When a seller claims "previously advertised/on sale at £1000"...it doesn't mean someone actually bought that product for £1000, it just means they were invited to.

Replied: 28th Nov 2017 at 09:55

Posted by: tomplum (12354) 

selling is an art and is best described by a used car salesman, If you're buying a car from him, he'll describe that car as the best you can get for the money its on sale for,
If your part exchanging or selling a car to him, The car you are selling is the worst car they ever made and it will be hard for him to sell, Until next week, when he's cleaned it up and blackened the tyres and its on the forecourt,
Its then become the best car you can get for the money,

Replied: 28th Nov 2017 at 11:05

Posted by: Stardelta (11829)

And if you are daft enough to believe everything he says, accept the PX offer and offer the advertised price more fool you!

Replied: 28th Nov 2017 at 11:25

 

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