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Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted

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Re: Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted

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Post by throwaway173738 »

jerf wrote: post #16

I just straight-up ignore "sale" claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I've gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word "sale" the page is is sim…

Also just because something is in a larger size, it doesn’t always make the prices better. Once I was at Fred Meyer and the 1 pound bags of lentils were $1.50 but the two pound bags were $4.00. They were charging more for larger handling units.

Re: Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted

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Post by mgkimsal »

jerf wrote: post #16

I just straight-up ignore "sale" claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I've gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word "sale" the page is is sim…

My favorite tactic is "50% off!" with an asterisk next to it, but no corresponding footnoted asterisk explaining the asterisk itself.

Re: Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted

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Post by wing-_-nuts »

jerf wrote: post #16

I just straight-up ignore "sale" claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I've gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word "sale" the page is is sim…

I love when publix doubles the price of an item and puts it on bogo to seem like it's on sale. Y'all aint fooling anyone

Re: Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted

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Post by allarm »

willcipriano wrote: post #21
leidenfrost wrote: post #14

For other people in developing countries: Isn't it weird to see news about a massive outrage for practices that in our place are totally common? Where I'm from, this happens all the time. And the law permits them to just change the price at whim. So they can just raise the price of any product and slap a "discount" label on them, even if the new "discounted" price is higher than the previous one.

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This is very common in Singapore for example. Basically everything is "on sale" all the time. So it's not about developing countries.

Re: Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted

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Post by stronglikedan »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #44
jerf wrote: post #16

I just straight-up ignore "sale" claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I've gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word "sale" the page is is sim…

I love when publix doubles the price of an item and puts it on bogo to seem like it's on sale. Y'all aint fooling anyone

In my experience, they don't do this. I'm a very regular person, in that I buy the same things for long stretches until I get tired of them, so I know what the long term prices of things are. I always stock up on bogos at Publix, since they have always been true bogos. I've never seen them inflate the price just to bogo it. In fact, I don't recall Publix ever playing price shenanigans. They are one of the most honest companies I know of when it comes to being fair to the consumer.

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Post by Miserlou57 »

Pxtl wrote: post #39
jerf wrote: post #16

I just straight-up ignore "sale" claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I've gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word "sale" the page is is sim…

I tend to use CamelCamelCamel to find out if I'm getting an actual deal on something, at least when shopping online.

I’d also recommend JungleDealsBlog

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Post by bibanez »

jerf wrote: post #16

I just straight-up ignore "sale" claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I've gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word "sale" the page is is sim…

I go to a store where they put the price per kilo, even when it is discounted. This way, I only need to compare price per kilo with other products to see if it's worth it!

Re: Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted

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Post by willcipriano »

imiric wrote: post #28
willcipriano wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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TIL Australia is a developing country. This xenophobic mindset is just not true. Similar and worse things happen in "developed" countries all the time as well, except at a different scale and potentially much worse consequences (e.g. 2008). The rule of law doesn't apply equally to everyone, and some people can skirt around it, or be above it.

Australia has fair dealing and rule of law. From a quick Google here is a list of some of the consumer protections afforded by their consumer protection organization: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic...

Economies that lack those types of protections haven't developed as quickly or as to the same level of economies that have them. This is true globally and throughout history.

What a first world country is from Wikipedia:

> the definition has instead largely shifted to any country with little political risk and a well-functioning democracy, rule of law, capitalist economy, economic stability, and high standard of living.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World

Perhaps reach for a book instead of pulling out the tired xenophobia canard.

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