Carpetright breaking oft regulations!

jumpinjackflash

arcon5 wrote: »

It's the same as buying a latte from Starbucks, it'll cost them about 25p to make and they charge about £2.50, a 10x markup -- but they have to pay the £100k/yr rent&rates, £250/day wage bill, ect ect ect. Yet the burger van down the road charges a quid fifty. Not sure exactly how prices can be regulated and how you would determine the 'market value' for manyh products

Carpetright offer nothing in service & customer experience for the inflated mark up.. same & much better service everywhere else!

Business overheads have absolutely nothing to do with product quality! If you can't sustain a business without lying about the market value of your products then the business should not be viable... criminally inflating of imaginary value of list prices cannot be deemed an acceptable behaviour toward the consumer who can only act in good faith! Buying in good faith is a consumers protected right!

BoGoF

So when will you finally admit you are either a rival firm or an employee of one.

At the end of the day nobody cares......go to the oft or fo.

jumpinjackflash

arcon5 wrote: »

Isn't pretty much everything in the advertising industry to do with affecting the economical behaviour of the consumer?

Everything from the play on RRP prices to colour psychology

Agreed! But that does not mean disregarding the duty of professional dilligence required of a trader.. the idea of sales prices is that the consumer makes a saving! Not that the trader massively inflates a price to the point they can hugely influence the behaviour of the consumer by misleading them to believe they are getting 70% off an item.. when in truth they are paying average market value!

It is a way of conning the public & influencing them to buy from that trader, whilst offering them nothing in return, except dishonesty!!

Can you still not see that?

wealdroam

jumpinjackflash wrote: »

...maybe it's best if you go back to sleep!! :eek:

I for one have now lost all interest in your rant.

Except to say...

You have posted it on the wrong board.

Should be on The Praise, Vent & Warnings Board

arcon5

jumpinjackflash wrote: »

Carpetright offer nothing in service & customer experience for the inflated mark up.. same & much better service everywhere else!

Well that's a matter of opinion.

Business overheads have absolutely nothing to do with product quality!

But overheads have everything to do with your pricing strategy.

If you can't sustain a business without lying about the market value of your products then the business should not be viable...

But you said the discounts are based on their list price, not the market value. So they are not lying about the market value of the product.

criminally inflating of imaginary value of list prices cannot be deemed an acceptable behaviour toward the consumer who can only act in good faith! Buying in good faith is a consumers protected right!

You need to be more specific about exactly what is "criminal" about their behaviour.

wealdroam

From the original post...

jumpinjackflash wrote: »

Does anyone have any views or knowledge regarding Carpetrights pricing & marketing stratergy?

Apparently they do, but they're all wrong. :rotfl:

redped

OP - you've only just joined the site, and all your posts so far have been in this anti-Carpetright thread. You say you know the industry well; as you've been asked several times which competitor you work for, why won't you answer this basic question?

somethingcorporate

jumpinjackflash wrote: »

You are missing my point... It's not about customers offering "list price" it is about deliberately & falsely massively inflating their subjective "list price" to prices that are between 200% & 1200% mark up, if you think 99% mark up is enourmous the Carpetrights mark up is criminal!!

You evidently do not understand margins and mark-up.

If something has a 99% margin it means the cost is 1% of the price, hence the markup is actually about 10,000%.

This is perfectly allowable

arcon5

jumpinjackflash wrote: »

Agreed! But that does not mean disregarding the duty of professional dilligence required of a trader.. the idea of sales prices is that the consumer makes a saving!

They are making a saving on the retailers usual price.

Can you still not see that?

I understand the points your making, just don't agree with it. Infact i'm afraid I think it's a very unbalanced view.

BoGoF

What you don't get is that a lot of people are quite happy with the service/price from carpetright. Do you think people don't shop around are and think people are enticed in with the big sales signs?

I've compared them with local independent retailers and quite frankly not prepared to pay the expensive prices quoted by the independents. I care not one jot what the list price is claimed to be. I want a cheap and cheerful carpet - after all it's just for walking on.