Christmas sales?
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I have spent the day avoiding town centres (way too busy) by driving around the outskirts and poking around some out of town shopping centres, the kind with Currys and similar shops. I was dismayed by the scenes in both PC World and Currys; I only went in to see if there were any bargains, and I can tell you there certainly weren't! It was a scene of mass hysteria, the great British public grabbing anything and everything off every shelf in sight! Okay, thinks I, must be some great deals, but no, instead the marketing types have twigged to the fact that the general public assumes everything is great value in the 'sales', and as such is flogging off old stock at highly inflated prices! In fact, much of what I saw was not worth half of what was being asked; these stores must be making an absolute fortune out of these fools! I can't blame the stores, if people are daft enough to pay for these products, who am I to argue?
So, before I get carried away, has anyone else actually found any bargains worthy of the effort required to go shopping, or am I better off stayin away from towns until it is all over?
Actually did have a look on www.play.com and they have some interesting CDs and DVDs in their salee
I work down in Ikea and it's mayhem down there, not so much in store as the queues aren't too bad, but outside the traffic is hideous!
One woman I was speaking to was saying that in the Metro Centre itself security are having a hell of a job as people are fighting each other trying to get the "last bargin". It's incredible how stupid people are getting over the "sales" at the moment!
One woman I was speaking to was saying that in the Metro Centre itself security are having a hell of a job as people are fighting each other trying to get the "last bargin". It's incredible how stupid people are getting over the "sales" at the moment!
randtis said:
these stores must be making an absolute fortune out of these fools!
You'll never go bust appealing to the lowest common denominator. Went past a Handforth Dean shopping park thingy (A34 south of manchester) on monday and the car parks were full. All these people "saving" money by running up their already groaning credit cards buying shit they don't need!
The only thing I want in the 'sales' is a new jacket, There's a shop at the bottom of Regent St that sells Barbour, yesterday they had 3 items with a tenner off, the rest looked like 2002/3 stock with no price reduction.
I'm at the stage where I select what I want, find out where I can get it cheapest then purchase.
As opposed to "OOH, SALE, something's reduced, doesn't matter what it is or if I need it, it's on sale, must buy, must buy!
What people don't seem to realise is that you can get anything on the net cheaper than high street retail but you can never get owt for nowt!
I'm at the stage where I select what I want, find out where I can get it cheapest then purchase.
As opposed to "OOH, SALE, something's reduced, doesn't matter what it is or if I need it, it's on sale, must buy, must buy!
What people don't seem to realise is that you can get anything on the net cheaper than high street retail but you can never get owt for nowt!
I managed to make several non-friends when in town yesterday. Looking for some new chairs for the dining room and wow. Furniture prices are so much higher than I thought. The price of one had load exclamations of 'what the ...., is it stuffed with money???'. Many shop assistants gave me nasty looks, some people who had been looking at items in shop snapped out of of their trances and left.
Then parents decided they needed new pillows. There were 17 different types of pillows. and it started all over again
Then parents decided they needed new pillows. There were 17 different types of pillows. and it started all over again
Never been one for the sales before but I went yesterday and managed to get the plasma screen I was after for £800 less than it was before Christmas and the dyson animal (for the labrador!) for £120 less. Yeah, it was busy when we left, but we got there nice and early and had no problems.
went to bluewater with the wife on monday, came back with nothing. the stuff that was on sale is the stuff you don't want to buy anyway because it looks like its from 5 seasons ago. the stuff you want isn't on sale..
wife was convinced she would pick something up in the sales.. she got one blue pullover and one pink pullover type thingy, both £15 each down from £30. i wouldn't have paid £15 for both let alone £30 each.. she finally got it when i said the sale doesn't really exist.. its there to feed of the consumers desire to purchase something in the sales because it is apparently 50% off.
wife was convinced she would pick something up in the sales.. she got one blue pullover and one pink pullover type thingy, both £15 each down from £30. i wouldn't have paid £15 for both let alone £30 each.. she finally got it when i said the sale doesn't really exist.. its there to feed of the consumers desire to purchase something in the sales because it is apparently 50% off.
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flasher said:
Never been one for the sales before but I went yesterday and managed to get the plasma screen I was after for £800 less than it was before Christmas and the dyson animal (for the labrador!) for £120 less. Yeah, it was busy when we left, but we got there nice and early and had no problems.
we got the dyson animal for £200 2 weeks ago, maybe we should have waited
>> Edited by mxdi on Wednesday 29th December 17:56
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