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  • Tiglet
    Tiglet Posts: 405 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I don't understand what is so complicated about this.

    Buy 1:
    price without reduction: £1.29
    price with reduction: £1.04
    reduction: 25p

    Buy 2:
    price without reduction: £2
    price with reduction: £2
    reduction: zero

    Buy 100:
    price without reduction: £200
    price with reduction: £200
    reduction:zero

    Buy 101:
    price without reduction: £201.29
    price with reduction: £201.04
    reduction:25p
  • lolarentt
    lolarentt Posts: 1,020 Forumite
    Change to Waitrose! - Their 'quick sale' reductions STILL take off the original offer which means in some cases you finish up paying only a few pence for 2 items - eg original price £1.49 - offer 2 for £2 (saving 98p) - individual item reduced to 75p - then you pay 2 x 75p - 98p = 52p
  • Tiglet
    Tiglet Posts: 405 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    That's the way Sainsburys used to do it too. The till would subtract a fixed amount for the offer, but they would adjust the reduction to make the final price be sensible. That's what I thought they had done in this case:

    Original price: £1.29 or £2 for 2 (saving 58p by buying 2)
    If they wanted to charge (say) £1.50 for 2 after the reduction, they would have set the ticket price at (£1.50 +58p) /2 = £1.04 each, which is precisely what they did, but then reduced the reduction (I know I'm losing some people here:p) at the till from 58p to 8p.
  • uktim29
    uktim29 Posts: 2,722 Forumite
    Tiglet wrote: »
    I don't understand what is so complicated about this.

    Buy 1:
    price without reduction: £1.29
    price with reduction: £1.04
    reduction: 25p

    Buy 2:
    price without reduction: £2
    price with reduction: £2
    reduction: zero

    Buy 100:
    price without reduction: £200
    price with reduction: £200
    reduction:zero

    Buy 101:
    price without reduction: £201.29
    price with reduction: £201.04
    reduction:25p

    So your saying you can't get 25p more off each item when you buy the 2 for £2?

    To me that was bloody obvious!

    I cannot believe your complaining about it.
  • lolarentt
    lolarentt Posts: 1,020 Forumite
    Tiglet wrote: »
    (I know I'm losing some people here:p) .

    Yes probably, but it's fun isn't it!
  • Tiglet wrote: »
    I don't understand what is so complicated about this.

    Buy 1:
    price without reduction: £1.29
    price with reduction: £1.04
    reduction: 25p

    Buy 2:
    price without reduction: £2
    price with reduction: £2
    reduction: zero

    Buy 100:
    price without reduction: £200
    price with reduction: £200
    reduction:zero

    Buy 101:
    price without reduction: £201.29
    price with reduction: £201.04
    reduction:25p
    So its cheaper without the reduction for 100 by £1.04
    I think I'll buy 100 please at the non reduced price and leave all the reduced ones for the OP.
    I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
  • So instead of saving 58p you're only saving 8p. Simple answer, don't buy the reduced ones.
    Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before
  • C_Ronaldo
    C_Ronaldo Posts: 4,732 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I work at sainsburys and no customers have complained to me about the reductions any goods that are on offer
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  • RadoJo
    RadoJo Posts: 1,828 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Tiglet wrote: »
    I don't understand what is so complicated about this.

    Buy 1:
    price without reduction: £1.29
    price with reduction: £1.04
    reduction: 25p

    Buy 2:
    price without reduction: £2
    price with reduction: £2
    reduction: zero

    Buy 100:
    price without reduction: £200
    price with reduction: £200
    reduction:zero

    Buy 101:
    price without reduction: £201.29
    price with reduction: £201.04
    reduction:25p


    But surely this is actually:

    Buy Two - price without reduction: £2.08
    Price with reduction: £2

    So you still save 8p. To be honest, you aren't actually entitled to any discount unless the store wants to offer it, but either way, you still save money when you buy two. Unless I have misunderstood something here?
  • uktim29
    uktim29 Posts: 2,722 Forumite
    RadoJo wrote: »
    Unless I have misunderstood something here?

    The op is ignoring the 2 for £2 discount and using that to make the unit price £1 each in his/her calculations for some reason. So yes, there is no discount if you ignore that fact the items are discounted!
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