SALE!! SALE!! SALE!! (FAKE ADD)

anasfk
By anasfk

What u think about this SALE!! SALE!! SALE!! SALE!! up to 50%..

every where hanging SALE!!board.

BUT,

vat is real fact?

They r really right????

NO..NO...NO>>, they r making people "FOOOOLS"

If YES, They had more than 50%-60% profit before the promotion period...RIGHT??

or..

They r selling without profit or in Loss(IMPOSSIBLE)!!!

Comment ur Opinion..

By anonymous• 17 Dec 2008 12:55
Rating: 2/5
anonymous

Markets are self-regulating.

The simple law of supply and demand applies in this case as it does for any other retail transaction.

*Even if* the goods that are marked 50% off are really just the everyday, normal prices (as is the case, for argument's sake in Pierre Cardin and Milano) consumers will still look at one product and compare it to the prices that similar products sell for in other shops.

They will then make a decision about whether or not the sale price is a fair price, and make their purchases accordingly.

If the constant sale prices were below cost, the shop, surely, would go out of business.

If the constant sale prices were daft, and didn't represent good value, customers would ignore the products and the shop would go out of business.

Neither situation has occured, so clearly the asking prices are considered implicitly reasonable by the consumer.

By anonymous• 17 Dec 2008 12:45
Rating: 3/5
anonymous

OooppSss.. they are not making us fools...

clearly they told us SALE! SALE! SALE! 50 % OFF THE PRICE not 50 % LOST OF OUR MONEY.

just a thought.. ^_^

By rlasrado• 17 Dec 2008 12:38
Rating: 3/5
rlasrado

hehe. thats true. out of 365 atleast 300 days of sale in pierre cardin.

Similar for Milano shoes. :-)

Anyways if you do end up entering and buying and they still running - they make a profit albeit not 100%...

BTW I need to get some xmas shopping done..WHERE ARE THE SALES????

By anonymous• 17 Dec 2008 12:24
Rating: 5/5
anonymous

The markup on items can vary.

Things like high end clothing are often sold with a markup of up to 700%, ie the garment costs the shop $10 to put on the shelf, but the selling price is $70.

Even with a 50% discount most shops are still making a small profit on the goods.

Sometimes shops do discount items to below cost price, and for various reasons.

1 - They want to attract customers to come to the shop and buy 1 item at a loss, and while they are there they are more likely to buy other items that are sold at a profit. The result is that the shop has made 2 sales that it otherwise would have lost, and the shop still makes a profit.

2 - The shop needs to make room for new stock, so is forced to sell other stock at a loss. Not many people buy shorts and sandals in winter, so by selling them at a loss there is then room on the shelf for scarves and gloves, or whatever. The shop might make a loss on the shorts, but if it didn't do so, it wouldn't make as much of a profit on the gloves.

3 - Perishable items need to be sold before they spoil. So the shop might as well sell them at a loss rather than throw them away at a bigger loss.

4 - If there is a new entrant in the market, a shop may sell things at a loss to build up marketshare and brand profile. Customers will then get used to shopping at one place and ignore the new shop. Similarly, a new shop might put things on sale as a way of winning new customers from older, more established shops.

In many countries, although I suspect this doesn't apply for Qatar, it would be a breach of consumer protection laws to sell things at a 'discount' by marking thing up, and then just marking them down again. This would be misleading and deceptive, so in most countries shopkeepers would be prosecuted for doing so.

By Winn• 17 Dec 2008 11:46
Winn

As long as you get it for a better price, its a sale...does it say anywhere that the merchant has to sell at a loss for the deal to be a good one?

By yano_08• 17 Dec 2008 11:41
yano_08

they do sometime SELL items at lesser or no profits, especially the non moving items gathering dusts at the shelves and also those that nears expiration.

By doing that, they can at least recover the cost of capital and re-use it to get newer items that can sell better.

Have you ever seen newer items on "SALE" shelves??

By who.am.i• 17 Dec 2008 11:41
Rating: 2/5
who.am.i

Sometimes shops tend to sell items with very small profit or with no profit at all because they need to dispose old items to give way to the new season collection. Just like what my sister used to say "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that I have to alter it every month". Makes sense, eh?

cheers,

paul

By tallg• 17 Dec 2008 11:38
Rating: 5/5
tallg

Of course they're selling things for a profit, even during a sale, unless it's stuff they want to get rid off to make way for new stock. What do you expect.

By johnny the dreamer• 17 Dec 2008 11:35
Rating: 5/5
johnny the dreamer

Thats why they call it business!

Offcourse they will not sell it without earning profit.

Should they sale it to 50% to 75% still they have their profit there.. Coz usually the goods you buy is 120% marked up of the production cost.

By nite_rider• 17 Dec 2008 11:32
nite_rider

ppl know dis still they do shop .

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