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Recent example, a piece of furniture costing over £3k and I can get 10% off if I sign-up to their newsletter. As someone who works in retail marketing, this is
by dazc 3y ago
Recent example, a piece of furniture costing over £3k and I can get 10% off if I sign-up to their newsletter.
As someone who works in retail marketing, this is a guaranteed way to ensure I don't spend a penny in your store.
- jstanley 3y agoAre you saying that if they offer 10% off when you sign up to the newsletter, that will prevent you from buying a product from them at all? Why?
- dazc 3y agoBecause they are throwing money around which means they either have ridiculous margins or are just desperate for cash.
- photonbeam 3y agoIt makes you feel overcharged even with the discount, the product must actually be junk
- rchaud 3y agoI don't feel that way. A 10% discount simply sweetens the deal for a commodity (clothing, furniture, etc) I could get at many other places. It's the cost of acquiring a new customer. The whole reason I'm stopping to look around is because every price tag just got 10% lower.
- mrweasel 3y agoWhat programs like that tells me is that I can get at least a 10% discount if I talk to one of your sales people. My wife doesn't consider something a discount if it's less than 20%, because "You can always get a 20% discount" (on certain product categories). I did have to deal with a store where I almost couldn't buy something, because I refused to signup for the "customer club program discount card", which gives you a 20% discount. The staff just looked confused and didn't know what to do. In the end my wife filled in the form and got the stupid card.
- dazc 3y agoNot many genuine businesses have a margin of 20%, especially in retail. If you can get such a discount then it's already been priced-in.
- mrweasel 3y agoElectronics (excluding gaming console), furniture, interiors design stuff, appliances, clothing and beauty products are frequently 30 - 50% margin. I previously worked with buyers, the toy department expected around 40% margins, electronics didn't want to deal with anything that didn't make them 45%, unless it was part of some promotion. You can always get a 20% discount on appliances in big-box stores, if you're flexible on the brand. I got 66% discount on a extractor fan when updating our kitchen, that's just insane. Edit: depending on your script, you could get the Busybox image and use that as a base. Probably a little more work, but it does fix some of your dependency issues. It doesn't have bash, git or fzf though, so there's a fun challenge getting those build.
- piperswe 3y agoI think you edited the wrong comment.
- kzrdude 3y agoSports and outdoor gear almost always has discounts like this
- antisthenes 3y agoThere's margin on cost of goods sold, and there's the margin of overall business. Retail is low margin only if you subtract salaries/offices/marketing AND cost of goods.
- red_admiral 3y agoIf I wanted that product anyway, I'd sign up with my other email address I use when something looks spammy, and take the £300 discount.
- rchaud 3y agoDoesn't the 10% off apply to the shopping cart total? I take it not everything in the store costs £3k? Not sure why this would turn anybody off. Plenty of stores do this.
- dazc 3y agoYes, plenty of stores do this and it doesn't turn off that many people. Think of an online retailer that has been around a while and is solvent though and I'll bet they don't do stuff like this.