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Swordfish

Swordfish

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Quick question here a I can't seem to find answer on tinernet.

IIRC a retailer must advertise a product for 28 days solid at a marked price before they can then use that price as a 'was' price in a sale. This was the way when I was in retail but I left that nightmare over 5 years ago and was wondering if things had changed?
 
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I don't think it has changed. I read a sign in SportsWorld (I know I know) which stated that. Price had to be that price for 28 days within 6 months, or something like that.
 
Swordfish said:
Is it 28 consecutive though?
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Yes but not necessarily in that store. Which I always though was a cop out.

Say you have 100 stores and 100 main items which normally sell for £100 each. List each one at a stupid high price in one store for 28 days for say £200. Okay, you won;t sell any of that item. Come sales day instead of saying that the item was £100 and now £90 so 10% off, you can legally list it as was £200, now £90 so 55%!
 
That's what I thought. I have bought in the last 3 months 3 samsung tv's (all identical)

TV 1 - bought 28/11 - £349 normal price
TV 2 - bought 29/12 - reduced from £349 to £329 in sale.

Yesterday I went to buy the 3rd and it was labelled was £369 now £349 and gave dates that it was for sale at £369 for a period of 9/1/10 to 29/1/10 and I feel they are mis-leading the public.

Letter time me-thinks
 
batsy said:
So where is the DFS store without a 'sale' on? :D
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Indeed.

January sales.
End of January sales.
Valentine's day sales (buy your girlfriend a sofa?).
Spring sales.
Easter sales.
More Spring sales.
Summer sales.
End of Summer sales.
Autumn sales.
Winter sales, christmas sales, december sales, yada yada.
 
You have too much time on your hands !!!

I assume you have checked that the higher price was not advertised in another store ;)
 
SDK^ said:
You have too much time on your hands !!!

I assume you have checked that the higher price was not advertised in another store ;)
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It was advertised in a national newspaper and the only dates listed were the ones above. So even if it was on sale at another branch they have failed to proved the info at the least.


Besides if people don't take it upon themselves to query and question these big companies they will get away with murder.
 
You clearly have too much time on your hands. I would imagine the time is better spend actually negotiating on the cost of the item, not the price it once may have been.
 
D D Danneh said:
Indeed.

January sales.
End of January sales.
Valentine's day sales (buy your girlfriend a sofa?).
Spring sales.
Easter sales.
More Spring sales.
Summer sales.
End of Summer sales.
Autumn sales.
Winter sales, christmas sales, december sales, yada yada.
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Weren't they told by the government to put a stop to all this due to misleading advertising or something?
 
i was told by my girlfriend that the store she works in (rather large retailer - and a competitor of OcUK) do crafty things when changing prices.

they put them on sale, but don't put any in the store front.. so the public can't buy them unless they specifically ask, then then change the price to the new (higher) price, but leave it out of the store front for some further time, then they put them back on the shelves at the original price, but claim it's a sale price. then after the 'sale', put the price up.

Eg:

TV costs £300.
They put it on sale @ £250, but take it off the shop floor
They put the price up to £350, and leave it off the shop floor
They put it back on the shop floor, 'on sale', at a price of £300
They take if 'off sale, and put the price up to £350.

Clever way of changing prices without the public noticing quite as easy.
 
RiPz said:
i was told by my girlfriend that the store she works in (rather large retailer - and a competitor of OcUK) do crafty things when changing prices.

they put them on sale, but don't put any in the store front.. so the public can't buy them unless they specifically ask, then then change the price to the new (higher) price, but leave it out of the store front for some further time, then they put them back on the shelves at the original price, but claim it's a sale price. then after the 'sale', put the price up.

Eg:

TV costs £300.
They put it on sale @ £250, but take it off the shop floor
They put the price up to £350, and leave it off the shop floor
They put it back on the shop floor, 'on sale', at a price of £300
They take if 'off sale, and put the price up to £350.

Clever way of changing prices without the public noticing quite as easy.
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Product must be on display, ie not hidden away, and at a price for 28 days solid. The way your gf describes things is 100% illegal.
 
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