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Oztrail Glenelg Double Swag $210 ("Save $289.95") + Other Swags @ Harris Scarfe

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Prices and products - summary:

The back story:

Back in January I went into Harris Scarfe at Arndale, SA during my lunch break, only to discover a range of oztrail brand swags at heavily "reduced" prices (I'm doubtful as to whether they actually had any of these in store before they were on sale). The sales assistant told me that the sale finished that day, so I purchased a double swag (Glenelg) for $210 on the spot (I'd buy at that price irrespective of when the sale ended). Today, I went to the same Harris Scarfe store to look at something unrelated and noticed that they still had a large amount of these swags remaining, still at discounted prices.

After owning this double swag for a few months now and having used it several times, I note that it is quite a good swag. It only has one pole (head end), but doesn't feel like it is excessively dragging on the feet. Matress is comfortable, build quality seems reasonable too - akin to the more expensive Oztrail Mitchell.

The Cooson swag: looks identical to the Stockton swag that Anaconda sell. I bought one of these in this sale. Build quality is good, however, the absence of a proper pole tends to make condensation an issue. Very worth it for the $50 I paid, probably worth it for $80 too.

Links to photos that I took of stock levels and price tags in store at Arndale (a wider variety of products was available than what I have photographed):

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  • You can't BUY swag, you're born with it.

    brushes shoulder off

  • +3

    I'm always dubious of Harris Scarfe sales

    Their heavily "reduced" price is actually their everyday price.

    ACCC needs to investigate them.

    • Or they didn't sell the item before the "sale" at all.
      I have only ever seen camping things in physical Harris Scarfe stores when the things are "on sale".

      • I would think with various web cache it wouldn't be too difficult to prove this and have the ACCC slam them… but, with some sites/stores popping up purely to sell 'sale' items, who do you go after first?!

        I personally prefer a larger store selling 'sale' items than a fly-by-night website doing the same, if only because there is some recourse; of course, its probably business as usual on eBay where these things go for this price all day every day…

    • -1

      I doubt you shop there otherwise you wouldn't be making such a ludicrous comment but I've said it before and I'll say it again - if you have evidence of this then why don't you do the right thing and contact the ACCC? H-S operates like quite a few other stores do these days - have regular sales to keep customers coming through the doors. Yes the RRPs/normal prices are sometimes hugely inflated and unrealistic but if you can't find a good deal during their sales then you aren't trying very hard. I'm as price-conscious as the next man/woman and I've spent quite a bit of time and money at H-S over the last 18 months - which is the reason I scoff at both your statement and similar general claims.

      • Good comment, I agree… i see that H-S (like some other stores) are just trying to adapt to a evolving market.

        The ticket price is almost meaningless nowadays, but i can appreciate it is a little upsetting when you see these huge markdowns, why mention the inflated RRP? just sell it for the 'sale' price without advertising some silly %-off figure

    • The ACCC (via the Federal Court, Adelaide) have already taken Harris Scarfe to task for exactly this issue:
      http://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/court-declares-harris-s…

      Interestingly that was in 2009 and the Judge imposed a 3 year 'restrant' on this sort of advertising, which has now expired.

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