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Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-29 04:50:21
January 29 2011 04:35 GMT
#1
"ON SALE": probably everyone's favourite phrase in English.

It is always nice for the consumer when the retailer is cutting prices. In exchange, the retailer gets more sale. It's a win-win situation. However, sometimes I think this terminology is abused: retailers may slap on the "on sale" sign when the cut in price was marginal. This is what I saw today?

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44 cents off a 100+ dollars item? That's a whooping 0.366% saving! Awesome! I want to buy this ASAP!

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Yea right....


A few years ago at a grocery store, I once encountered an item which its price was increased from $1.98 to $2.00... with a "ON SALE" sticker and a label that says "save $-0.02" (I deeply regret not taking a picture of it). That's right. Anyone buying the item would "save" a negative amount of money. What an awesome deal that was.

What is the most ridiculous 'on sale' item you have seen? Please share

EDIT: Post those super sales with crazy savings too!
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Cofo
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States1388 Posts
January 29 2011 04:36 GMT
#2
On the opposite end of the spectrum... Steam.

I love getting $35 games for $5.
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Hakker
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1360 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-29 04:41:31
January 29 2011 04:41 GMT
#3
Grabbed a picture of this at my local Stop n Shop

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Not sure if it counts, but me and my girlfriend had a laugh over it.
Dalguno
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States2446 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-29 04:46:11
January 29 2011 04:45 GMT
#4
In a redneck town that I lived, there were brownies posted to be for sale for 99 cents, or four for $3.99. .99x4=$3.96

You lose money when you buy four.
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sung_moon
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States10110 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-29 04:48:10
January 29 2011 04:46 GMT
#5
awhile ago the madcatz TE sticks buy 1 get 1 free for 150 was in sane. i paid 110 for mine but the stick is soooooo worth it

edit: woah i think i'm doing this wrong D: . regardless still a "crazy" sale though
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nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
January 29 2011 04:51 GMT
#6
On January 29 2011 13:35 Sufficiency wrote:
"ON SALE": probably everyone's favourite phrase in English.

It is always nice for the consumer when the retailer is cutting prices. In exchange, the retailer gets more sale. It's a win-win situation. However, sometimes I think this terminology is abused: retailers may slap on the "on sale" sign when the cut in price was marginal. This is what I saw today?

[image loading]

44 cents off a 100+ dollars item? That's a whooping 0.366% saving! Awesome! I want to buy this ASAP!

+ Show Spoiler +
Yea right....


A few years ago at a grocery store, I once encountered an item which its price was increased from $1.98 to $2.00... with a "ON SALE" sticker and a label that says "save $-0.02" (I deeply regret not taking a picture of it). That's right. Anyone buying the item would "save" a negative amount of money. What an awesome deal that was.

What is the most ridiculous 'on sale' item you have seen? Please share


The wording there alone allows them to just only give you a card board box... ( some guy was posting pictures of an xbox360 on ebay a few years ago with some play on words and he only sent the buyer some pictures )

Madcatz sticks? Are they better than the hori ones? I've never touched the madcatz ones
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Ben...
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3485 Posts
January 29 2011 04:52 GMT
#7
Future Shop and Best Buy have been known to at times raise a price then put it on "sale" for the original price, or, in the case of a laptop I was looking at, put it at a higher price. Dead serious, they had it listed for $699, raised it to $799, then had it on sale for $749, all in a two week period. They also did that with a monitor. I asked the salesman and he said that the price hadn't changed.

Same as when stores put "new low price" on stuff and lower it by a penny or leave the price the same.
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Kinky
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States4126 Posts
January 29 2011 04:52 GMT
#8
I think it was a little before christmas time, Best Buy's online store was offering a laptop for $0.01 off retail price. It was so ridiculous.
palanq
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States761 Posts
January 29 2011 04:55 GMT
#9
my local grocery store frequently puts on a yellow tag claiming LOW PRICE! with a listing for exactly the same amount as the regular tag. There doesn't seem to be a pattern to it, so I think they just do it to smooth out the inventory/ordering process.
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FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9858 Posts
January 29 2011 04:58 GMT
#10
I don't really remember any of those lowered by $0.01 type of deal, but what I remember a while back, when I was into yu-gi-oh cards, there was this collector store going out of business. And they had these booster packs that usually sold for 4-5 dollars, went to $0.19 in price. I think I made my mom buy me a good 30 of them xP And that's when I became cool.
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So no fek
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3001 Posts
January 29 2011 04:59 GMT
#11
Wal-Mart has been known to have funny roll back prices on occasion.

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GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
January 29 2011 05:04 GMT
#12
On January 29 2011 13:59 So no fek wrote:
Wal-Mart has been known to have funny roll back prices on occasion.

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lol I've seen those at target as well. I seriously wonder if the person that stocked that area did that on purpose...
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Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-29 05:07:20
January 29 2011 05:06 GMT
#13
I randomly caught this show the other day on 'extreme couponing'. It's pretty amazing. The work these people put into this is massive, but it actually works, haha.

Check this out:



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Woman turns $230 grocery bill into a $7 grocery bill, just by using coupons.
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radialis
Profile Joined November 2010
726 Posts
January 29 2011 05:17 GMT
#14
when i'm at the supermarket pretty much half of everything is 'on sale'. about half of the sale prices are frekaing retarded, like WAS $4.00 NOW $3.96
Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
January 29 2011 05:17 GMT
#15
On January 29 2011 14:06 Mikilatov wrote:
I randomly caught this show the other day on 'extreme couponing'. It's pretty amazing. The work these people put into this is massive, but it actually works, haha.

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BsjPjm2bo

+ Show Spoiler [Video] +
Woman turns $230 grocery bill into a $7 grocery bill, just by using coupons.

Oh man, I really REALLY hated people like that when I used to work in a grocery store.
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BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10495 Posts
January 29 2011 05:22 GMT
#16
On January 29 2011 14:17 Sentenal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2011 14:06 Mikilatov wrote:
I randomly caught this show the other day on 'extreme couponing'. It's pretty amazing. The work these people put into this is massive, but it actually works, haha.

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BsjPjm2bo

+ Show Spoiler [Video] +
Woman turns $230 grocery bill into a $7 grocery bill, just by using coupons.

Oh man, I really REALLY hated people like that when I used to work in a grocery store.


Why? that's a pretty retarded opinion to have.
Pseudo_Utopia
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Canada827 Posts
January 29 2011 05:24 GMT
#17
^ There's 35$ of reward points? That's different from coupons, but, 230->42 is still ridiculous!!
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sharkeyanti
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1273 Posts
January 29 2011 05:25 GMT
#18
On January 29 2011 14:22 BlackJack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2011 14:17 Sentenal wrote:
On January 29 2011 14:06 Mikilatov wrote:
I randomly caught this show the other day on 'extreme couponing'. It's pretty amazing. The work these people put into this is massive, but it actually works, haha.

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BsjPjm2bo

+ Show Spoiler [Video] +
Woman turns $230 grocery bill into a $7 grocery bill, just by using coupons.

Oh man, I really REALLY hated people like that when I used to work in a grocery store.


Why? that's a pretty retarded opinion to have.


it ends up holding up the line for quite a long time, and you ALWAYS have to call the manager to approve this that or whatever. And then something goes wrong, and coupon-obsessor must have every last drop of savings, down to bag credit (which is like 5 cents). It's not bad for small checkouts, but big ones are just retarted
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nalgene
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada2153 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-29 05:27:49
January 29 2011 05:25 GMT
#19
On January 29 2011 14:17 Sentenal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2011 14:06 Mikilatov wrote:
I randomly caught this show the other day on 'extreme couponing'. It's pretty amazing. The work these people put into this is massive, but it actually works, haha.

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BsjPjm2bo

+ Show Spoiler [Video] +
Woman turns $230 grocery bill into a $7 grocery bill, just by using coupons.

Oh man, I really REALLY hated people like that when I used to work in a grocery store.


The company still pays you the same regardless of what the customer is buys...?

and she' might be poor and actually need the money...

or perhaps she's not as fortunate as you...
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AJMcSpiffy
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1154 Posts
January 29 2011 05:26 GMT
#20
On January 29 2011 14:22 BlackJack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 29 2011 14:17 Sentenal wrote:
On January 29 2011 14:06 Mikilatov wrote:
I randomly caught this show the other day on 'extreme couponing'. It's pretty amazing. The work these people put into this is massive, but it actually works, haha.

Check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-BsjPjm2bo

+ Show Spoiler [Video] +
Woman turns $230 grocery bill into a $7 grocery bill, just by using coupons.

Oh man, I really REALLY hated people like that when I used to work in a grocery store.


Why? that's a pretty retarded opinion to have.

If you've ever had to ring up customers using coupons you'd understand. It's a headache to have to fiddle with all the coupons and all the special codes and god forbid one doesn't scan right a manager has to get called.

I mean I'm all for saving money, but that doesn't mean it's not frustrating for the cashier.
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