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grayme-m

Silly Boots (and M&S in the post above), if people are emptying the shelves in minutes, they've given too much off!

Azari

grayme-m wrote: »

Silly Boots (and M&S in the post above), if people are emptying the shelves in minutes, they've given too much off!

This seems to be a very common problem.

Somerfield were the worst with their wine offers. They were very easy to find as you just looked for the empty sections of the shelves.

You would think they'd have the sense to charge a little more so that:

a) They make more money
b) The savings (and hence incoming brownie points) are shared amongst more of their customers.

gardner1

butterfly72 wrote: »

How much of this is pharmacy and how much retail?

a HELL OF A LOT was retail;)

pulliptears

Be interesting to know how many of these people now selling the reduced stuff on ebay are registered business sellers...HMRC would be interested anyway.

molerat

grayme-m wrote: »

Silly Boots (and M&S in the post above), if people are emptying the shelves in minutes, they've given too much off!

The space in store will be needed for the spring re-lays. The quicker they can shift it the better. The stock has been paid for and the margin already made. The sale is just extra in the bank during a slow period and clearing out all the old tat, what the Jan sales used to be all about. Many stores have the opposite problem, they do not give enough off and end up with it taking up space for months and looking tatty as it has been kicked around the store so many times.

A company buys 1000 items for £1 each. After their calculations they decide they need to take £2000 for them to make sufficient profit and cover all costs. Do they charge £2 each, no they charge £3 each. Once they have sold 667 of the 1000 they have made what they want from them. There will be breakages and theft to account for, already done in the £3 price. The remainder can then be discounted at 50% so that is £1.50 pure profit. Next 75% off, 75p each, still 75p pure profit even though sold below cost. Any left go in the skip (yes Boots do put an awful lot in the skip, where do you think much of the stuff on eBay comes from, I know a scaffie who has quite a thriving sideline). Do they care who buys them, no, every one sold is pure profit and the quicker they go the better.

Emmzi

meh, it is just post crimbo tat. If you are an MSEr you wouldn't use inflated price Sanctuary stuff etc anyway, nor all the cheap glitter based make up that is let over. So someone is making a few quid out of stuff that hasn't sold in THREE MONTHS, good on them!

Valli

nic_santorini wrote: »

I will not link any particular listings but the amount of Sanctuary gifts sets is unreal. Those that cost £2.50 are listed at £10 plus posting and the gift cases that were £12.50 in the sale are listed at £30.



Never normally vent but this and re-sold concert tickets really gets my goat!!:mad::mad:

IF people are buying to resell then they, according to e bay's rules, are business sellers and should be registered as such.

Re the concert tickets. My mate got a pair of stalls (rear) tickets for a concert in Nov then more were offered and she bought two more for the front, for her and her mum. When I sold them for her on e bay she sold them at a slight loss, after fees and everything. But she never bought them to sell in the first place and offered them to friends and colleagues first.

I accept though, that some people might well but to resell but, given the time lapse between tickets going on sale and the actual event hardly surprising that some end up being offered for sale!

Debt_free_by_2012

gardner1 wrote: »

Whats the problem
you buy an item sell it on ebay and make a profit its called buisness

NOTE-i have not bought any items from boots nor sold any boots items on ebay

I agree i don't see any problem. The majority of people buying are ordinary people like us getting future birthday/christmas presents. If people want to put them on ebay and make extra cash then good luck to them. If people are foolish enough to buy them without shopping around then that's their hard luck.

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pulliptears wrote: »

Be interesting to know how many of these people now selling the reduced stuff on ebay are registered business sellers...HMRC would be interested anyway.

bil and sil are investiagting tax inspectors and believe me they are very hot on going after ebay sellers.

Jaymo

I don't agree with the comment that people re-selling these items on ebay are greedy as its normal behaviour in the world of business. Buy low and sell high. Though I do agree that there should be a limit like the supermarket does with their sale items occassionally as this allows everyone to benefit from the sale item(s) as oppossed to someone grabbing everything all at once.