Is anyone really surprised by this?

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News item on the BBC, various furniture and carpet retailers are being investigated by the OFT for "lying" about prices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23797882

I'm surprised it's taken this many years for the OFT to begin doing anything and the activities of the companies has seemed so blatant. I can't believe for a minute that anyone believes the "original" price and that any reductions are genuine. Are there really mugs out there that fall for their lies?
 
Fairly sure the answer is no.

i've never known a furniture store not have a 50% sale on all their stock which is running out soon, to be followed by another 50% august sale, then the christmas sale.
 
Anyone stupid enough not to realise that the whole double-discount 50% off extra day of savings with additional discount vouchers for chosen customers and 5 years interest free credit on a special deal just for you I'm cutting my own throat here pricing is complete BS deserves to be overcharged for poor quality furniture.
 
Just talking to people here at work and I'm shocked that it just doesn't seem to be common knowledge in their circles that after Double Glazing, the Furniture/Carpet retailers are the most dishonest, disreputable bunch of crooks in the country :eek:
 
As far as I can tell pretty much all home furnishings of any nature, due to the difficulty in comparing like-for-like, are on perpetual nonsense sales. Finding good value in these areas on the high street is nigh-on impossible.

I'm looking to buy a bed, carpet, mattress, wardrobe, units etc. at the moment, and it's astonishing the utter dross that's being peddled as 'was £1000, now only £150'. Picking on six retailers is completely pointless, they are all at it.
 
WillyNelson said:
Anyone stupid enough not to realise that the whole double-discount 50% off extra day of savings with additional discount vouchers for chosen customers and 5 years interest free credit on a special deal just for you I'm cutting my own throat here pricing is complete BS deserves to be overcharged for poor quality furniture.
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Wow. :eek::D Just went all out there didn't you? All one sentence in fact.
 
People do have this odd obsession with how much they're saving, rather than what the actual price they'll be paying is. When I used to work in retail, people would always ask me how much the discount was on TVs, laptops etc, and would steer towards the ones with the bigger discounts rather than the ones that were better value in the first place

Bizarre.
 
The OFT has ordered the six to stop the practice of misleading pricing.
If they continue the habit, the OFT has the power to fine them up to 30% of their relevant turnover.
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Expect the DFS sale to end soon ;)
 
I'm surprised it has taken this long also.

But im not surprised the amount of people i know who have fallen for the "half price sale" people seriously think there getting it half price lol.
 
WillyNelson said:
Anyone stupid enough not to realise that the whole double-discount 50% off extra day of savings with additional discount vouchers for chosen customers and 5 years interest free credit on a special deal just for you I'm cutting my own throat here pricing is complete BS deserves to be overcharged for poor quality furniture.
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Might as well be selling you sausage in a bun whilst wondering around the showroom...
 
nothing will happen like it didn't with the furniture stores

I work for a small carpet company and it amazes me the amount of customers that believe the sales at the larger national companys are genuine.
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yea my carpets were from a local place.
go in choose what you want.
get a real price
guy orders the carpets from belgium (they come within 2-3 days)

good prices and honest practices
 
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Didn't everyone already know that DFS always are on sale?

In the BBC article it says "Carpetright and the ScS chain are among the six being investigated."... why don't they name the other four?
 
Used to work in a furniture store myself back in my teen years, this was pretty common practice.

The 'before' price was always the RRP and not actually the previous price before the sale.
 
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