Asda pricing rant

Turn_to_Grey

Bought a new cat bed for our " little darling" last week in the Asda pet event, £8. Went in this week, Pet Event still on, to find the bed now £4 ! No "Rollback" nothing to say it's a special, Not impressed ! :mad:

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timbstoke

Turn_to_Grey wrote: »

Bought a new cat bed for our " little darling" last week in the Asda pet event, £8. Went in this week, Pet Event still on, to find the bed now £4 ! No "Rollback" nothing to say it's a special, Not impressed ! :mad:

You were impressed with it when it was £8...why are you suddenly unhappy with your purchase just because the price has dropped?

System

erm ..... i would imagine the price !! its not unreasonable to expect a promotion to be cheaper than the everyday price

Forwandert

If the event is close to ending most stores clear to half price to make room for the next event.

Pound

Maybe you could buy another one at the selve serve, feed in £8 and then walk off and ignore the £4 change and it will be like the price was never reduced.

timbstoke

CHRISSYG wrote: »

erm ..... i would imagine the price !! its not unreasonable to expect a promotion to be cheaper than the everyday price

The point being, at the time they bought it, the OP was quite happy with a price of £8, and thought this was a perfectly reasonable price for the product. I don't see why that view should be changed just because it happens to be cheaper now.

System

timbstoke wrote: »

The point being, at the time they bought it, the OP was quite happy with a price of £8, and thought this was a perfectly reasonable price for the product. I don't see why that view should be changed just because it happens to be cheaper now.

wouldnt you feel a little conned ?

catch_me_if_you_can

Go and buy another at £4 and then take it back with the receipt for the £8 one

Pound

CHRISSYG wrote: »

wouldnt you feel a little conned ?

How has anyone conned you? Asda sold it at a price you were happy with and later decided to sell it at a lower price.

Do you expect them to never reduce any prices once they sell something?

If you were running a shop and then found someone round the corner was selling the same products cheaper, would you keep your prices the same whilst everyone buys from the cheaper shop just in case one of your previous customers feels like they've been conned?

Stephen_Leak

Turn_to_Grey wrote: »

Bought a new cat bed for our " little darling" last week in the Asda pet event, £8. Went in this week, Pet Event still on, to find the bed now £4 ! No "Rollback" nothing to say it's a special, Not impressed ! :mad:

I hate it when this happens to me, and I feel your pain, but ...

In fairness to ASDA (and they're going to need all the support they can get, in view of a certain other, and infinitely worse, thing they've just been caught doing!), all shops do this to clear the decks for newer, more profitable lines.

Having bought something, I stop shopping around for it, just in case this has happened.