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