Don't fall for "sale" prices!

catch22

The next few months should be interesting. How will the new ranges sell for example? Can imagine these days being peoples last splurge for many a month, was certainly mine.

cloud9

i looked at a gold chain in half price jewllers before xmas and couldn't afford it.so went in as there was a sale on low and behold it is the same price asbeforexmas yet in sale.. i wouldn't uy it on principal now

hippey

There has been so much discounting lately that most store can't actually discount much more.

What a lot of people forget to realise (although everyone on here does know) is that most store have a sale to get rid of old stock, yes, that is stock that has not sold, mainly for one reason.......it is tat!!!!

There are some offers around, and some very good ones, like the HD Video Camara that I returned a few days ago, thats gone down by £150. But just stand outside NEXT the night before the 'sale' and you will see loads of grey boxes with the sales gear in it, and the nice stuff being taken away.

And don't forget the all important 'special purchase' yes, it's normally cheap rubbish that you don't want but someone buys it.

The all important rule of sales is, if you don't need it don't buy it. Thats how Britain got in trouble in the first place.

truman_sparks

Wings_of_Ambition wrote: »

It's not a grabbit deal, so grabbit isn't the right forum for it. Everybody has access to both boards.

yes, we can all clearly see what the rule book says. I'm just saying that considering this thread will likely help those who are looking for "grabbits" not chatting, it should have been allowed to stay on that thread.

But I'm sure its correct to move it, Money saving or warning people has no place on the grabbit board.

Well done.

black_taxi_2

its a scam----best known sales pitch

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first main store i walked into--prices didnt match the posters on window. 70% off

saw £3 off a washing machine---pmsl

its just to get u into store--i would rather be castrated then go too sales around xmas newyear

kiddy_guy

Just a word for Next here that seems to have a couple of black marks against it.

Any items which are in the sale - go into the really big stores, like Trafford, Arndale, Bluewater, Lakeside, Bullring etc... and they WILL have the full range of items being sold. Just because the tiny store in Peteborough high street doesn't have the full range of items, doesn't mean it is legitimately being sold elsewhere. I mean really why buy a load of clothes to stick them in Inverness stores for 60 days prior to sale - it would be easier to see if they sold full price in the stores that actually can take the full range as they have the space!

Equally if items are being collected the night before - you cannot expect Next to put their entire range into the sale - so it is perfectly legitimate to move stock out to storage which isn't in the sale to bring stock from the warehouse that hasn't sold.

worried_jim

when I worked in fashion reatial back in the early 90's we had a sale to clear out old lines and previous season stock, that's it. I alaways wondered why other types of retailers had sales - eg the b&q kitchen units, the doors i can undersatand but there would never be a reason to reduce the units as they are sold all year round with out changing.
A coleague who worked @ next said that there sales had become so sucsessfull they had to buy in stock especially for it as any genuine clearence lines would all go in the first 24 hours leaving them with nothing to sell throughout the rest of January except full price shorts and tees fro the summer, whist other clothing reatailers would statrt at 20% off, then 30% and only going 50% at the end of Jan when just the real rubbish was left.

kiddy_guy

Untrue. (at least it is now - can't comment on the 90's)

If you overbuy, then you risk running not selling it at all. Doing that would be stupidity.

Look how long Next have a sale for instore. It will be on for a few days and then revert back to a full price store. They do not have the stock to have a long term sale for weeks - ask anyone - it goes to the clearance outlets after a few weeks,

On the other hand, Next do buy specific lines for the outlets, but the tags on the products say as much as does the label sewn into the garment.

Other stores will have their sales running until February.

BettiePage

I've emailed this link to Sky news in the hopes that they'll pick up the story.
Maybe other media outlets would be interested in doing an article? Or Martin in one of his GMTV slots?

PopeSock

The consumerist has a story about a similar thing in the US. As far sales go, there's anothing to be wary of. Which is that 'reduced' prices may be the prices the company always intended to sell the product for. It's not uncommon for companies to show an item at a higher price, knowing full well they won't shift many, only to reduce it to the price they wanted to sell it for, just to get you to buy it.

You tend to save more money by buying clearance stock. Stores can reduce stuff like mad, just to get rid of it. To the point where they may be sell it for less than they paid for it. These Christmas sales, on the other hand, aren't all that great for the consumer.