Seriously !!

Dup said:
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.
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Some good points, but if I wanted to pursue a career in retail and made it to store manager, I would be doing the exact same thing, goading the dumb sheep waving their huge wads of gifted money to my shop. But I don't want a career in retail, my IQ is far too high; I cannot imagine what some 2 digit IQ wad waving monkey would find attractive enough to throw said wads at.

Seriously, the amount of brightly coloured labels and posters with HUGE numbers with scissors through the middle of them is ridiculous. I am completely unaffected, and do not understand people who take notice of them. I am rather frugal, and for anything over a tenner, I'll do a google shopping search to find the lowest price. It may well be in a shop in town, which has it advertised in the window, but that is ignored by me.

As for aggressive advertising, I'm in complete agreement, if a little less bothered by it. You could start a petition to disallow adverts from ordering people to come to their shop, or PHONE NOW (pet hate). Only passive advertising should be allowed; that is constituting a description of what is on offer, for how long, and where to find them/phone number. I would gladly sign such a petition, but I'm not bothered by this enough to start one. :rolleyes:
 
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R34pz said:
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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Capitalism for you. :rolleyes:

Any Sociologist will tell you the population of the western world is searching for happiness, and believes that "stuff" will bring it. When really, they end up with buyer's remorse and still feeling empty, at which point they see something else to work towards, to the same ends.
 
MikeHunt79 said:
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
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Has anyone told Rhod Gilbert? That sketch of him buying bedding is hilarious :D
 
Strife212 said:
Also theres no way a big shop they would actually raise the price in the sales, its illegal.
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Well i'm working in currys over xmas and i had to print out new tickets for the sale, all but two were items that were increased!! I even asked the manager if that was correct and he just said "we have to make money somehow"!

So the things you would normally buy were marked up by quite a lot and the amount of stuff on sale wasn't as much!!
 
You're dead right Sophisticate, it's a self-perpetuating circle of misery/debt and greed, in a desperate attempt to fill peoples empty lives. Some turn to drink/drugs, others to gambling and others to sex, the human brain isn't designed for monotony and needs constant stimulation. Most of us feel like this to some extent, it's just that at the same time most of us have the intelligence not to be easily brainwashed by "the capitalist machine".
 
I don't get sales plus most of what I buy (DVD's, software, etc) are the cheapest they can be online. Causing harm to others in a mad scrum is hardly appealing either.

However, we're on a tech forum which pretty much glorifies the possession of (expensive) material items every day so we're hardly the right people to start looking down on others for their 'consumerist greed'.
 
Say whatever you like about these 'idiots' but I was by chance going to watch Sherlock Holmes in Gunwharf Quays yesterday afternoon and I managed to bag a £5 2 button suit jacket from Next after a 5 minute browse.

Bargain Boxing Day me thinks.
Imagine how much more of a bargain those early birds grabbed?
 
I dont mind Bargins but you wouldnt find me in a crowd like that for one.

I Hate crowds, Especially when its like that!
 
I went to get bargains yesterday around 11ish just to be back home within 45 minutes - bought 0 items.

I'm going to M&S today and they are opening at 10. Lets hope this time I can get some half price shirts.
 
The_Sophisticate said:
Capitalism for you. :rolleyes:

Any Sociologist will tell you the population of the western world is searching for happiness, and believes that "stuff" will bring it. When really, they end up with buyer's remorse and still feeling empty, at which point they see something else to work towards, to the same ends.
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Yeah, don't people realise happiness is a state of mind, think right and make it so, of course most people base their happiness on things out there and often out of their control while also letting negative and repetitive thoughts cloud their mind, people just don't stop for a second and realise where it all really exists, in your head!
 
Bes said:
I bought a Ben Sherman suit on the 23rd from Debenhams... Was £149... Today it was 'on sale' for £169... haha!
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LMAO

And you can bet some poor soul will be waiting in long queues, at 7am, doing his best to get that fantastic deal. And for his efforts - he will pay an extra £20.
 
I was actually quite surprised at the little amount of people in my local high street on boxing day compared to last year and i live in London, so it should have been rammed.

Most of the people in this video look like asian tourists tbh.
 
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