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re: Do yall remember when something being "On Sale" actually meant something?
Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:38 pm to sidewalkside
Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:38 pm to sidewalkside
Umm
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Posted on 5/10/24 at 12:42 pm to sidewalkside
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That just means its the first time they will be available for purchase...not being sold at some discounted price
That’s my point. Drop the sale nonsense and say that tickets will become available at a certain time. The definition of sale is an offer or arrangement in which goods are sold at a discount. It’s misleading is all I’m saying.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:29 pm to sidewalkside
Abour a decade ago we were interested in a leather sofa. The price was a thousand more than we wanted to spend.
The company had a going out of business sale with a 40% off everything in the store. Yep, they still had 'our' sofa, and the price was different, so much higher that the new price, reduced 40%, was $50 more than it had been.
The company had a going out of business sale with a 40% off everything in the store. Yep, they still had 'our' sofa, and the price was different, so much higher that the new price, reduced 40%, was $50 more than it had been.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 1:48 pm to BigBinBR
quote:My wife falls in this category
JC Penny actually changed their pricing a few years back to what those “sale” prices were. Their sales actually went down. They went back to the old pricing and then having it on “sale” and sales went back up.
Basically people are stupid.
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 4:12 pm to theunknownknight
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Now they prop the prices up 300% and then put it on sale for 200% price
December 26, February 15, Easter Monday, and November 1 used to be great days to buy chocolate. Now the clearance price is still a lousy deal.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 4:20 pm to bad93ex
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Kohls is infamous for “sales”
Kohls didn't start it, but they perfected changing their prices to make things higher then put it on sale for 40% off. But people fall for it.
Posted on 5/10/24 at 6:13 pm to sidewalkside
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remember when something being "On Sale" actually meant something?
Retail history is defined by deceptive pricing / fake sales. Anchor pricing, false reference pricing (Kohl's MO), fake sense of urgency (buy now or miss out) are part of psychology of sales.
Been going on forever. Black Friday, particularly, is a huge scam.
Nothing new under the sun...
This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 6:14 pm
Posted on 5/10/24 at 6:33 pm to sledgehammer
It's sell vs. sale, how dumb are you
Posted on 5/10/24 at 6:47 pm to sidewalkside
We don’t mark it up just to mark it down and call it a sale
Posted on 5/10/24 at 6:55 pm to sidewalkside
Yeah the grocery stores run a sale every time a product price rises... Walmart rollback deal's actually are sales... only because Walmart has too many of whatever in inventory
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:02 pm to sledgehammer
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The definition of sale is an offer or arrangement in which goods are sold at a discount. It’s misleading is all I’m saying.
That's not the definition of sale. Swallow the L bro bro
Posted on 5/10/24 at 8:57 pm to sidewalkside
Do you even jewelry store?
Posted on 5/11/24 at 10:55 am to sidewalkside
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Wouldn't the proper comparison be 2 for $13 versus 2 for $18???
No. I'm comparing the sale prices. "Buy one, get the second for a penny" means that if the original $8.99 price was still there, you would pay $9 for two. But, they yank the price up to $12.99 just for the sale, so you are paying 2 for $13. My complaint is with the deceptive price increase.
Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:02 am to sidewalkside
When I was a kid--early 80s-- my grandpaw was friends with a guy that owned a small store in town that somd everything from fresh cut meat to material for making clothes.
He told my grandpaw one day while we were there that all he had to do was write SALE on something and it would sell as fast as he could mark it.
But back then it was actually on sale.
He told my grandpaw one day while we were there that all he had to do was write SALE on something and it would sell as fast as he could mark it.
But back then it was actually on sale.
Posted on 5/11/24 at 11:07 am to sledgehammer
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The definition of sale is an offer or arrangement in which goods are sold at a discount. It’s misleading is all I’m saying.
No. Putting something up for sale means it is being offered at a price. The word “sale” is irrelevant to what that price is. Think of houses. When a house is put up for sale, do you think that the price is being discounted? Come on, man.
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