Dreams 'Sale'

Lip_Stick

Ventured into Dreams bed shop the other day, looking for a children's bed. They are having a 'sale' on the kids beds with around 25% off. I liked the Kansas bed, which was on sale for £275. There was an A4 information sheet stuck to the bed, with a pic, some details of the bed, and the sale price, and 'after event' price. The after event price was £379 for this particular bed.

Looking around, I came across a lectern, which had all the information sheets in a booklet, including beds that weren't on display. I came across the Kansas bed, and the price, which made no mention of a sale price was £269. They hadn't updated the sheets on the lectern, and it showed that for that bed, and all the others in the sale, the sale price was actually more expensive than the normal price.

We asked a salesman and he agreed that it looked like the company had put the prices up for the sale. :mad:

I know the rules have changed about sales goods, that it isn't a set amount of time they have had to have been sold for, just a 'reasonable' amount of time. But can Dreams say an item is in a sale if it's never been sold for that 'after event' price?

Paul_Varjak

Just ignore any sale prices, discounts and after event prices. All are designed to think you are getting a bargain, when you not. It seems so easy to get around the law when selling sale items and the like, I often think if it is better to ban price reduction labels altogether, especially if you have a wife that says...

"I bought this bargain today, dear and saved 75%". My response would be...

"But how much did it cost dear?"

From the ensuing silence you know that even she knows it was not a bargain!

gemstars

I think the rules are that they are allowed to quote the higher price if the item has previously been for sale at that price in the last 6 months.