Item in a sale - Help

mr_xmas

Hi ,if something has been given a sale price offer one week, can that item be then repriced in the sale BUT at a higher price and remain in the so called sale ?

realised

Yes I'm afraid that can happen. A shop can change it's prices and sell their items for whatever price they want. It's up to the customer as to whether they are happy paying that price.

powderace

Its slightly off the topic but relevant to items on sale and prices charged.This Asda price guarantee is a total misleading disgrace..I was duped by this offer twice into visiting my local Asda a for painkillers.I could have travelled a little further to sainsburys to purchase exactly the same item (co-codamol) and for 26p less.
Asda charged me £1.25 for 32 and saisburys charge 99p.I bought 4 boxes over a weekly period.
Only after I took my reciept to the customer services was I made aware - firtsly that they wont give you a refund in the shop, and secondly they have numerous exclusions - including items from the pharmacy.What a rip off! The flashy Asda advertisement makes no mention of wasting customers time waiting around in queues only to be told (by a not very helpful or polite assistant) to go online and claim your money back. THEN to find out the offer doesnt even cover the items purchased. They have seriously dented my faith in an honest approach to sales techniques Asda. At best this offer is misleading at worst it is deception.

Bowling_4_Gold

powderace wrote: »

At best this offer is misleading at worst it is deception.

Not really... In the small print on the T.V. adverts it clearly states the offer is subject to Ts and Cs. I personally don't think it's misleading.

Anyway, why would they know competitor's prices of all of their thousands of products in-store, only to charge a higher price to then make you claim it back? It just unnecessarily uses up man hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3apKhUHn4oM - Small print clearly visible.

tabouleh

powderace wrote: »

Its slightly off the topic but relevant to items on sale and prices charged.This Asda price guarantee is a total misleading disgrace..I was duped by this offer twice into visiting my local Asda a for painkillers.I could have travelled a little further to sainsburys to purchase exactly the same item (co-codamol) and for 26p less.
Asda charged me £1.25 for 32 and saisburys charge 99p.I bought 4 boxes over a weekly period.
Only after I took my reciept to the customer services was I made aware - firtsly that they wont give you a refund in the shop, and secondly they have numerous exclusions - including items from the pharmacy.What a rip off! The flashy Asda advertisement makes no mention of wasting customers time waiting around in queues only to be told (by a not very helpful or polite assistant) to go online and claim your money back. THEN to find out the offer doesnt even cover the items purchased. They have seriously dented my faith in an honest approach to sales techniques Asda. At best this offer is misleading at worst it is deception.

I sympathise with you and wanna tell everyone on this money-saving site that ASDA PRICE GUARANTEE IS TOTALLY MISLEADING - here's why: once ur online u put in the whole receipt and it tells u u have saved on the entirety of ur shopping....this is so lame!
i wanted to buy muller light yogurts and knowing they were 2x6 for £3 in tesco, but £5 in asda, i thought i'd buy it anyway and claim the £2 back online off my next shop - AND THIS IS WHAT THE STAFF ADVISED ME! But, once online, the stupid thing considered ALL my shoppin - stuff, incidently, i wouldn't have even bought from tesco - and then after a few seconds, and despite recognising the yogurts were cheaper in tesco, the asda site congratulated itself for being cheaper on my overall shop! arrghhh!

the only way round it, i'd guess, is to buy each item separately, thus get a separate receipt for each thing u buy. as for me, i'm so hacked off with asda, i'm gonna shop elsewhere.

esp. as i only bought the flippin' yogurts for the cinema voucher, n have given the gelatin-ridden yogurts to s.o. else anyway! huff! - false economy, or what?