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Closing Down Sale...?

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  • trisontana
    trisontana Posts: 9,472 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    There is a shoe shop near here which has the notice "CLOSING DOWN SALE" in very large letters. It's only when you get up close that you see (in much smaller letters) "Central Warehouse". So actually the shop is not closing down, just one of its warehouses !
    What part of "A whop bop-a-lu a whop bam boo" don't you understand?
  • Same here, a book shop always seems to be closing for refurbishment...
    "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art."
    -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • iwanttosave_2
    iwanttosave_2 Posts: 34,292 Forumite
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    My textile warehouse has been closing down for years as well.
    Work like you don't need money,
    Love like you've never been hurt,
    And dance like no one's watching
    Save the cheerleader, save the world!
  • sports world had a closing down sale about the time they offered me a job the first time (they offered about 5 times in total), apparently they only have to be closed down for an hour outside of normal opening times for it to count
    things arent the way they were before, you wouldnt even recognise me anymore- not that you knew me back then ;)
    BH is my best mate too, its ok :)

    I trust BH even if he's from Manchester.. ;)

    all your base are belong to us :eek:
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
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    that bit is a bit dodgy as to advertise an item at a reduced price it should have been sold at the higher price for a period of time

    They don't actually have to be sold. Just "available for sale". This even means just simply having it on the books and the only way a customer would even know they had the item to buy it would be to specifically ask for it. They had an episode on DFS sales on The Bull**** Detective. They never even have to sell one item at the previous price in order to claim "discounted from...". Basically loophole in the law, so although they're following the letter of the law it's not in the spirit of the law for what it was intended.
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • v0n
    v0n Posts: 183 Forumite
    There was an item on BBC's Bull***t Detective about DFS never ending sales and Alasdair Jefferey attempted to track down where exactly, if ever, were these sofas, furniture and beds for sale at full price (requirement by law). Turned out no manager in any of the branches has had them ever displayed to customers at full price, but at some point they were catalogued at that mythical full price, in manager's pricebook, in one of the stores, without being diplayed at the time, but in theory still available for purchase.
    So basically keeping items in your locked garage with price of £££ for few weeks entitles you start massive 50% sale in store one day.
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    v0n wrote: »
    There was an item on BBC's Bull***t Detective about DFS never ending sales and Alasdair Jefferey attempted to track down where exactly, if ever, were these sofas, furniture and beds for sale at full price (requirement by law). Turned out no manager in any of the branches has had them ever displayed to customers at full price, but they were catalogued at that mythical full price, in manager's pricebook, in one of the stores, without being diplayed at the time, but in theory still available for purchase.
    So basically keeping items in your locked garage with price of £££ for few weeks entitles you start massive 50% sale in store one day.

    Didn't I just say that?
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • v0n
    v0n Posts: 183 Forumite
    Doh. You did. How could I miss that. :eek: I'll get my hat....
  • superscaper
    superscaper Posts: 13,369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    v0n wrote: »
    Doh. You did. How could I miss that. :eek: I'll get my hat....

    Hey, at least great minds.... :beer:
    "She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
    Moss
  • Someone recently complained about a shop doing this in our town so they just changed the sign to "Clothing down sale" and yet there were still people walking past saying "oh look (insert random store name here) is closing down"

    People read what they want to read and almost never look at the small print on "SALE" signs.
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