Shops putting prices UP for Christmas!

texranger

texranger wrote: »

it still happens unfortunately, the old way was if a retailer ordered 1 he would be told to sell at £x and if he ordered 1000 he was still told to sell at £x.
this is what was outlawed, now they tell a retailer the price to charge on the quantity they order. stores sometimes fight back at this process by having VAT free promotions, instore promotions.

with toys especially board games. Monopoly which is still popular the board game i have told to sell this min. £14.99 max. £16.99 No more or no less, so this sells £14.99. in Oct my supplier offered me if i purchased 300 a promotion box of 50 to retail at £7 after the 50 the rest would sell at £14.99. i refused as this is unfair on consumers as if i sell the 50 within a day and have to repenish stock you will get some customers complain that they were £7 an hour ago.

knightstyle

What I was on about was that the game was cheaper in the shop, Game for the period up to a week before Christmas, they put it up £10 just for Christmas! It was £20 cheaper from Game online.

Azari

texranger wrote: »

it still happens unfortunately, the old was was if a retailer ordered 1 he would be told to sell at £x and if he ordered 1000 he was still told to sell at £x.
this is what was outlawed, now they tell a retailer the price to charge on the quantity they order. stores sometimes fight back at this process by having VAT free promotions, instore promotions.

texranger wrote: »

with toys especially board games. Monopoly which is still popular the board game i have told to sell this min. £14.99 max. £16.99 No more or no less, so this sells £14.99. in Oct my supplier offered me if i purchased 300 a promotion box of 50 to retail at £7 after the 50 the rest would sell at £14.99. i refused as this is unfair on consumers as if i sell the 50 within a day and have to repenish stock you will get some customers complain that they were £7 an hour ago.

And this is still legal?

I remember some time after RRP was abolished TS had a crackdown on certain companies, some Hi-Fi companies, in particular, who were up to this malarkey but I had no idea it still went on.

DCFC79

knightstyle wrote: »

What I was on about was that the game was cheaper in the shop, Game for the period up to a week before Christmas, they put it up £10 just for Christmas! It was £20 cheaper from Game online.

ah yes i see what you mean now,

marywooyeah

knightstyle wrote: »

What I was on about was that the game was cheaper in the shop, Game for the period up to a week before Christmas, they put it up £10 just for Christmas! It was £20 cheaper from Game online.

which game was it? was it on a promotion in the shops which has now ended but the offer is still on online?

prowla

I went into Game to buy a game in the week before Christmas; the assistant was very helpful, but when I asked the price it was £5 more than HMV (£59.99 vs. £54.99), so I said thanks and that I was going to HMV to buy it.

texranger

Azari wrote: »

And this is still legal?

I remember some time after RRP was abolished TS had a crackdown on certain companies, some Hi-Fi companies, in particular, who were up to this malarkey but I had no idea it still went on.

suppliers still try and push RRP of items, but i never take any notice of these.

an example of how daft RRP is. before christmas i purchased some dolls they cost me inc. VAT £2.50 the RRP was £45. I sold these far less than the RRP.

the price competition changes started with the tobacco war when local stores to make a profit had to sell tobacco at RRP, but supermarkets were able to undercut the RRP. so the changes were made that all tobacco had to be sold at RRP, which i think now is the only goods that are legally to be sold at RRP

knightstyle

The game is Skyrim for those who asked.

arcon5

texranger wrote: »

with toys especially board games. Monopoly which is still popular the board game i have told to sell this min. £14.99 max. £16.99 No more or no less, so this sells £14.99. in Oct my supplier offered me if i purchased 300 a promotion box of 50 to retail at £7 after the 50 the rest would sell at £14.99. i refused as this is unfair on consumers as if i sell the 50 within a day and have to repenish stock you will get some customers complain that they were £7 an hour ago.

With respect, thats one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read on this forum by a business owner!!! You think it's unfair on the consumer to offer a product at less than half price just because the price restores to normal after that?

Based on the (il)logic stores should never have discount days/weekend, any sales or promotions because customers who miss out on it the next day will be disadvantaged.


I'm assuming you will not be partaking in the January sales bononza then to avoid it being unfair to Feb customers?

Azari

arcon5 wrote: »

With respect, thats one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read on this forum by a business owner!!! You think it's unfair on the consumer to offer a product at less than half price just because the price restores to normal after that?

You only have to look at the messages here to see just how much that annoys a lot of people.

I think that what TR is saying is that he'd much prefer to make a smaller discount available to all his customers. Which seems sensible.

I've always thought it was particularly daft the way supermarkets discount (or pretend to discount) wine to such a degree that they perpetually have great big gaps in their display as the wines sell out and cannot be replaced because they have sold their entire reduced price quota.

Wouldn't it be more sensible to reduce the wines less so that all their customers can benefit and not have their choice reduced by line selling out?