Seriously !!

Strife212 said:
Also theres no way a big shop they would actually raise the price in the sales, its illegal.
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Could do it quite easily, on TV ads annouce the "Widget co Winter Shopping Event!" or the "Widget Co Christmas Cracker" just don't mention the word sale, or down or cut etc.

"Technicolour Telly, Now only £3m" <-- nothing wrong.
 
The_Sophisticate said:
Could do it quite easily, on TV ads annouce the "Widget co Winter Shopping Event!" or the "Widget Co Christmas Cracker" just don't mention the word sale, or down or cut etc.

"Technicolour Telly, Now only £3m" <-- nothing wrong.
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I think he meant taking a £30 item then putting a tag saying


50% off

Was £60

now

£30
 
I dont understand why people QUEUE to get into a shop at 7am in the morning. The next sale near me was a prime example of this :s lol
 
It has already been covered in the thread James, because they absolutely positively have to grab a "bargain" on something they don't need nor ever want....

I have a feeling most of it is down to peer pressure too:
"Look what I got at the sale, an XYZ jumper, it should have been £300 and I got it for £30."
"That's nothing, I bought a 50" plasma tv for a fiver."
"Pah, I bought Abramovichs boat, it cost me a paperclip and a ball of fluff."
etc etc etc
 
Tefal said:
I think he meant taking a £30 item then putting a tag saying


50% off

Was £60

now

£30
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Well yes, then that's fraudulent, price changes need to be a day apart from sale pricecuts.

Related fact: Holland and Barrett's "Better than half price" sale is on for 364days a year, then prices are put up to the original extortionate prices for 1 day, usually boxing day or new years, for as few a customers as possible, since they have to be open and trading at the original price for it to count.

So, forget about the "you can't afford to miss the better than half price sale", you stand a 1 in 365 chance of missing it, at which point, just return the following day when "sale" prices resume. :rolleyes:
 
The_Sophisticate said:
little dark? :(
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Probably, but the thought of chain store owners rubbing both hands with self richeous glee over the success of their false positive advertising makes one shudder with cold thoughts.

It's ruined the whole festive priod for me, completely. I can't watch TV anymore becasue of the relentless repetition of adverts from the past 3 years with the same of agressive advertising. I helped my gran get herself a laptop in the summer. It was off a high street shelf and wasn't on offer or sale. Last week it was advertised on TV with £100 off... but it was the same price as we paid.

There's no such thing as a "sale" IMO, it's just marketing.
 
BloodyL said:
More like TOGs. ;)
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The tog is a measure of thermal resistance, commonly used in the textile industry, and often seen quoted on, for example, duvets.
The Shirley Institute in Britain developed the tog as an easy-to-follow alternative to the SI unit of m2K/W. Launched in the 1960s, the Shirley Togmeter is the standard apparatus for rating thermal resistance of textiles, commonly known as the Tog Test.
A tog is 0.1 m2K/W. In other words, the thermal resistance in togs is equal to ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material, when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre.

:p
 
I think a lot of people rush out to the sales because of Christmas blues. They realise they just spent huge sums on overpriced stuff for Christmas.Then it ends up a huge anticlimax as it's over in the blink of an eye, and they have to work themselves into the ground for the rest of the year to pay it all off. So the only thing to do to relieve the depression is to buy even more stuff, hoping for a real bargain, to give them a reason to go on working round the clock.
 
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