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In the UK you are not allowed to do this, goods must have been on sale at the higher price for some period of time. Discount codes have been employed as a way a
by dazc 5y ago
In the UK you are not allowed to do this, goods must have been on sale at the higher price for some period of time. Discount codes have been employed as a way around this since there are no rules to how these are used. So they have a 'sale' every so often and then everything is full price but with a discount code instead.
I did actually do some work with one of these merchants for a time. As it turned out, their honesty regarding pricing was about the same as their business ethics in general. As a consequence, the relationship soon came to an end.
- comprev 5y agoA certain furniture store in the UK was known for always having a discount and they got round it by having the products at full retail - for the minimum required time (60? 90 days?) - at a shop in the tail end of nowhere. This shop operated at a loss 100% of the time, but since it was part of the same company (which discounted everywhere else) the costs were written off. Technically speaking, the sofa on sale in a retail park was on sale because it had been available at retail.
- Lammy 5y agoIs this why some stores are perpetually “going out of business” and “liquidating” their stock?
- dylan604 5y agoI just assume those types of places are fronts.
- dylan604 5y agoThis seems very nanny state. If I make a product and sell it on my website for 20% of MSRP, where's the gov't to tell me that I can or can't do that. The MSRP is just a number I've made up. Maybe it gets weird when selling things made by other people that have a published MSRP. If I'm willing to take less profit by selling at a discount from the MSRP, then that's literally my business. If I make an agreement with a vendor to not undervalue the items by selling less than the vendor's MSRP, then that's a different topic. However, none of that is any business of the gov't.