The Good Guys won't allow finance on sale price?

[Deactivated] on 19/06/2015 - 16:41
Last edited 19/06/2015 - 18:31

went shopping for a new camera today..

Found a d610 at the good guys marked as $1529 and a 50mm lens marked at $269

Asked if they can do me a deal as I was also purchasing 4x $300 camera packages for work.

They came back and said the price on the camera should t be there as the sale has ended at he swapped it to a price of $2200.. He did say he would honour the price though because I had seen it.

I asked if there was any discount on the lens and he said he could take $8 off..

No savings to be had, but the price on the camera body was good.. So decided to go home and work out my finances.

Came back the next day (today) and asked about getting the stuff, he said yeah that's fine.. I said I wanted to put it in my partners GEM Visa .. And he said he could only do it on the full price if I want it via GEM visa.

So I decided against it because paying $2200 for a camera body that was advertised a week earlier at $1529 isn't really my thing.

I'm not familiar with finance or anything like that because I always pay cash.. Is this normal ? Does this sound right?

If it helps the sale price tag also had a 12 months interest free tag on it too?

Thanks

Edit: photo of price tag that was displayed and removed after I asked about buying the camera - http://imgur.com/REmfddA

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  • stevednj48 on 19/06/2015 - 17:29

    yeah they all do that now i just go to checkout and hit credit on the eftpos machine as all gem purchases over 250 are automatically 6 months interest free
    so if you can manage to pay within the 6 months can still get some good deals that way.

  • Squidmcsproggen on 19/06/2015 - 18:22

    if its advertised they have to do it at that price on finance

  • spackbace on 19/06/2015 - 19:20

    photo of price tag that was displayed and removed after I asked about buying the camera - http://imgur.com/REmfddA

    Can clearly see its from May. Annoying but it is an old tag

    • [Deactivated] on 19/06/2015 - 19:40
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      Yes it's an old tag that has expired. That they still had on display and forgot to remove. They said they will honour the price.. (Though I thought it was common knowledge that stores that display old price tags have to honour it as per the ACCC regardless of expiry dates)

      When I was in there today they didn't have a problem dropping the price down to that either.

      It all came unstuck when I wanted to put it on finance.

  • endotherm on 20/06/2015 - 14:20

    This can get very confusing - see The Checkout for their take on price tags:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wL59SzvZ1Y
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl6ftvz0i5s

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