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Fake Sales!!!!
monkeyboo
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Hi
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong section, but I thought it might be an idea to post listings of bogus sales - where the sale price as advertised is the same price as the goods before Christmas.
An example is the BOYSSTUFF.co.uk sale. I received an e-mail this morning with apparant savings and I know at least 2 of the items were not reduced.
One, for example, was newly launched at the start of December (I know as I have an affiliate store with them and they sent an e-mail trying to push this new product).
It was the SWEARING TERRY TURTLE at £14.95. It's been that price since it was released on the site (I know as I posted a link to it at the start of Dec and then bought one mid-Dec) and this morning I get an e-mail with lots of offers and this one is now £14.90 (a saving of 5p) yet they claim you save £5.10.
There must be lots more cons like this out there. I know when we want new furniture we never trust the sales - the last time we bought a sofa we checked out the local stores before the sales started (making a note of the items we liked). Then when the sales started we went back to those stores to find that most of the "sales" items were new items with the items we liked either the same price or more expensive - Seriously, one of the sofa chairs was £100 more. When we confronted the store manager he claimed that the week before that was on an offer of buy one get one half-price - whereas now it was 40% off (or something like that - can't remember the math)
Sorry if this is posted in the wrong section, but I thought it might be an idea to post listings of bogus sales - where the sale price as advertised is the same price as the goods before Christmas.
An example is the BOYSSTUFF.co.uk sale. I received an e-mail this morning with apparant savings and I know at least 2 of the items were not reduced.
One, for example, was newly launched at the start of December (I know as I have an affiliate store with them and they sent an e-mail trying to push this new product).
It was the SWEARING TERRY TURTLE at £14.95. It's been that price since it was released on the site (I know as I posted a link to it at the start of Dec and then bought one mid-Dec) and this morning I get an e-mail with lots of offers and this one is now £14.90 (a saving of 5p) yet they claim you save £5.10.
There must be lots more cons like this out there. I know when we want new furniture we never trust the sales - the last time we bought a sofa we checked out the local stores before the sales started (making a note of the items we liked). Then when the sales started we went back to those stores to find that most of the "sales" items were new items with the items we liked either the same price or more expensive - Seriously, one of the sofa chairs was £100 more. When we confronted the store manager he claimed that the week before that was on an offer of buy one get one half-price - whereas now it was 40% off (or something like that - can't remember the math)
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Rip off Britain is alive and well in spite of the apparent down turn0
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sales are always a con. Often they want rid of old tat or bump prices up to sell cheaper later. They get away with it because some far flung store they sell this item was cheaper but it may not be the case in your store0
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I bought a North Face Nuptse vest from Go Outdoors earlier in December for £89.99 and had an email from them a couple of days ago referring to their biggest ever sale, followed the link and the very same vest is in their sale, at £89.99Aug GC £63.23/£200, Total Savings £00
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