Currys sale items

tellmah

Last week i was looking at a laptop in Currys/PCWorld, in the "sale" at £349 from £500.

I thought i'd wait for the sale to see if became cheaper, i checked today and its gone up £50, with no mention of it never a "sale" item, ie, was £500 now £400.

I printed it off showing the £349 price, so i can show it was that price.

Is it legimate to do this and can i do anything about it.

Thanks and merry xmas.

Peter999_2

It's fine for them to do this.

If you don't want to pay the additional £50 then you don't get the item.

It will probably go down again though.

CoolHotCold

Thats fine, Retailers can set prices and when they go down declare them a sale item, it may even be a supplier promo where the manufacture gives the retailer £X amount for each item sold.

Legitimate and no issues there, you should of purchased it when it was cheaper and kept it sealed for 21 days and returned and rebrought it if there was more money off, or open it and use it and if the price went down within 7 days you could get the difference back.

tellmah

Thanks for your help chaps, it's just annoying to me anyway how they do this. Hindsight eh, if i knew it was going up instead of down i would have bought it.:rotfl:

bryanb

CoolHotCold wrote: »

or open it and use it and if the price went down within 7 days you could get the difference back.

Is that Curry's policy then?

mattyprice4004

tellmah wrote: »

Last week i was looking at a laptop in Currys/PCWorld, in the "sale" at £349 from £500.

I thought i'd wait for the sale to see if became cheaper, i checked today and its gone up £50, with no mention of it never a "sale" item, ie, was £500 now £400.

I printed it off showing the £349 price, so i can show it was that price.

Is it legimate to do this and can i do anything about it.

Thanks and merry xmas.

A shop is allowed to put prices up if they want - are you expecting to force them to sell you the item at a lower price?

Oli.s

They may have low stock of it so have put the price back up, or they may have loads of stock of another item so have put the price of this one up to sway customers towards the other item etc etc.

prowla

They play this game - set an item at a higher price one week, so that it can be shown at a reduced price the next.

The way to break through that is to research items online and check out the real going rate for a given item. Of course, the way that big retailers like Currys get around that (and any price match promise) is to have special models delivered exclusively to them, which means that the exact same thing is not available anywhere else.

In the end though, £350-400 for a decent spec laptop is a good deal in anybody's money.

arcon5

LOL there's no way in hell this can be a serious question!

dalesrider

tellmah wrote: »

Last week i was looking at a laptop in Currys/PCWorld, in the "sale" at £349 from £500.

I thought i'd wait for the sale to see if became cheaper,

Is it legimate to do this and can i do anything about it.

Thanks and merry xmas.

So it was already in a reduced price sale, but you hoped it would be even cheaper in "The Sale"....
But they have now put the price up.

Of course they can do that.

Clearly that item in not in "The Sale".. :rotfl:

Anyone else think that the sales this year are not giving any decent offers.:mad:

fozmcfc

I don't agree that the OP is entitled to anything, but I agree with Matty they increase it for a few weeks, then reduce it and can claim it is on sale.

Something really should be done about stuff like that. There is small print, which normally mentions, previous sold at current price or even lower!!!, but when going into a shop, it's probably not mentioned at all.

The Argos catalogue sale supplements are full of symbols which indicate such things.

With the offline retail market struggling, I guess, that the government doesn't want to put more pressure on it, by stamping down on things like this.