Currys Sale Con

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Many products in Currys sale have not been reduced in price today despite showing a saving.
They use prices charged over 8 months ago
An example is the LG RHT497H DVD recorder, it shows a saving from a price charged between 24/03/11 and 20/04/11.
Pathetic, why don't they genuinely reduce their stock?
Can anybody find a saving on an older price?

deanos

most places are on the fiddle its not just currys

ayeshasi

Totall;y agree!

Phils_debt

Be quick for the dfs sale

tattybonce

Thanks for this fantastic grabbit! Mmmeerrrrrryyyyy Christmas!

feed_me_chocs

I thought that legally they could only claim that the price was discounted against a higher price that they had to have charged for at least 30 days in the previous 6 months (or something like that)?

Bikertov

In the same way, a lot of these electrical / computer stores are showing 'savings' on the much-inflated prices of external hard drives - when the prices were previously hiked by 100% or more recently due to the floods in Thailand. But they are still much higher now than they were 2 months ago ...

adelight

feed_me_chocs wrote: »

I thought that legally they could only claim that the price was discounted against a higher price that they had to have charged for at least 30 days in the previous 6 months (or something like that)?

don't think so, morrisons are advertising half price compared to a higher price that was charged for 6/7 days :eek:

snowqueen555

I used to work in ____and they did the same but it is something they do everywhere. Whenever you scan a product you can see its previous price history, and more often than not the price is hiked by 50% or something silly like that for a couple of months before being discounted.

I think a lot of these shops like Currys and Comet are more deceptive, because laptops/pc's are already quite complicated and it's hard to know what is a good offer unless you know a little about them, so it is easy to confuse or mislead a shopper.

bloss0m

They say it was cheaper at a store in nowwheresville thats all they have to do

feed_me_chocs wrote: »

I thought that legally they could only claim that the price was discounted against a higher price that they had to have charged for at least 30 days in the previous 6 months (or something like that)?

bill_the_bus

Worked for Comet many years ago and one year they had their January sale (started Boxing Day) and advertised every single item instore reduced. Around 90% of it was by 1p. Can you imagine how the staff felt spending Xmas Eve after store closing changing every single price ticket. Bunch of !!! holes