Hey guys,
I've noticed recently a few retailers have been raising prices right before a sale starts and unfortunately I've been caught up in it. I was just wondering if they're allowed to get away with this. The only relevant thing i could find was a news.com.au article about Kogan getting fined for doing this.
If someone could point me in the right direction it would be great. Cheers.
No, they are not allowed to do what you have described. Report them to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Here's an article about Kogan being fined over $30,000 for such behaviour.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-online-retailer…
That's the article I mentioned in the OP.
Does anyone have anything from ACCC about this?
Thanks for being helpful.
Normally their excuse is that their previous sale just ended. This is how they get around it.
To bad so sad. Should research firstly before finger click or back pocket purse monies
You should be comparing prices from all available sources, not just looking at the discount listed by the retailer, anyway. Price history should be irrelevant to you, just look at whether the price now is a good deal.
For everyone making condescending comments, I still got the best possible deal. I just didn't get the discount I was entitled to at the time due to my own carelessness when making the purchase.
I still got the best possible deal.
Case closed. I couldn't give a shit what the price was before, as long as the price after couldn't be beaten.
I agree except in the case of eBay sales. I'd rather support a business who has an item at $50, than the one that has it at $47 after a 20% eBay sale because they jacked their prices. They absorb most of the discount intended for us.
Except that unless it's "site-wide" discount, eBay isn't coughing up for the full 20%, so the retailer has to absorb the discount somehow.
Ahh ok, +1 for the info :)
All good. No rep will admit that's the case due to their agreements with ebay, but it has been alluded to before
I don't care what the price was before but I care what the store's practises are like.
I don't only shop the sales. When I walk into any of the shops that have played price tag yoyo, I feel like I'm fish in a barrel.
Just avoid stepping foot in any store that does this dodgy pricing practises. Vote with money.
Who doesn't have fluctuating prices? Where do you buy your groceries? Because they all change weekly…
Where do you buy your fuel?
Some groceries are seasonal, but the big oligopolies also play with grocery prices and petrol prices.
Mass manufactured imported goods have very stable pricing.
Also, fluctuating price of fresh goods hardly compares to increasing RRP of manufactured goods to conincide with a sale to create the illusion of a discount. Two very different scenarios.
Two very different scenarios.
How are weekly grocery price differences any different from any other sale? You're saying that in 1 week it costs more to produce my bottle of coke than it does the following week?
You realise your argument is highly flawed right? If you really stopped shopping at any company that often fluctuated prices, you'd end up having to be a farmer as you'd have nowhere left to shop.
Mass manufactured imported goods have very stable pricing.
And yet the prices fluctuate weekly at iga/coles/ww/aldi etc etc. Do you boycott each and every 1 of those?
@Spackbace:
As I don't buy coke regularly, I have no idea what the prices of that are. If they do fluctuate, that's not good practice.
You are right, I avoid shopping at many chain supermarkets. I support my local grocers as much as I can. I buy my meats from a butcher, my vegies from a green grocer, my cured meats from a deli, bread from the bakery and I catch my own fish. No sarcasm here.
Many places have no where else to shop precisely because they shop at all these places. Businesses that promised the lowest prices and as soon as the competition is dead, they are more expensive than ever.
So yes, I boycott every single one of those. Every single one that does not have a monopoly (I can't live without internet and petrol).
I can't live without internet and petrol
Right so you're happy to put up with fluctuating petrol prices, but boycott anyone else, and yet fuel companies are the worst for it as they fluctuate daily, not weekly.
So again, your argument is highly flawed.
@Spackbace:
Umm. Where do I go where petrol doesn't fluctuate? If you let me know of one within a reasonable distance, I would go there. Otherwise, you're just being recalcitrant and pointless.
Yet more examples of large Australian business acting like criminal organisations on an ongoing basis with slaps on the wrists (if you are small like MSY) or no penalties at all (if you are large and pay politicians money to protect you).
A vote for Liberal and a vote for Labour is a greenlight to allow the country to be run by criminal organisations such as Harvey Norman.
Yep coz I'm sure the Greens know how to balance the cheque book… 😂
Bring back Clive
Diji1,
When I read that you said " criminal organisations such as Havevey Norman", it touches my heart. I fully agree with your statement in their unwanted way of running their business. Nowadays many HN stores belong to individual franchisees , and no much "reputation sake" they want to maintain.My own experience was some years ago I bought an Apple Ipad from a certain HN store at Knowxfiled store , Victoria. Upon returning home , I was told by my daughter she already bought a smilar one for me online, very much cheaper. However I had unfortunately torn the plastic cover ( outside layer) half way before my daughter could stop me.In the store I was treated and told rudely that nothing could be done i.e no refund , though the IPad was not even open yet. I told them they may have some way to re seal the whole pack with new plastic cover. No refund said the store manager. I did not want to waste my time , but I make up my mind ever since then " never purchase anything from HN ", and I told my experience to my circle of friends and my relatives : beware of HN.
Hi guys!
I know there's been a few posts relating to the price inflation during eBay sales.. (no surprise there… happens every time a sale comes around…)
Is practice like that illegal? or just unethical..? Can we or should we report things like this?
This post is more in regards to when sellers raise their prices above RRP. Now I understand RRP = Recommended Retail Price and not maximum retail price, but it's a pretty crazy thought that anyone in their right mind would sell above that when supply meets demand.
For example:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Google-Pixel-2-XL-6-64-128-GB-Jus…
Selling for $1689 (64gb model)
When the Google store itself and Jb Hi-Fi are selling for $1399
(Once the discount code is applied it is slightly cheaper, but 20% off what people would assume the RRP as the max.. no where near.)
Interested to hear your thoughts on this!
I know there's been a few posts
Bugger it, lets make another one.
If the price is too high , don't buy it.
Far out. No. It's not illegal.
The price police aren't going to come knocking down your door for making an extra $5 profit.
Thanks psy for the legal clarification, I had seen plenty of mixed responses, that's what made it confusing.
Careful mate. There's a reason no one's even seen the price police (and lived to tell about it).
Vote with your wallet and support sellers that doesn't pump before a sale.
FFS it's not rocket science.
If a retailer is expected to kick in 10% of that (for example), no wonder they have to price jack.
If the price afterwards is too expensive, don't buy it. If it's cheap, buy it. Simples.
Hey Spackbace, Thanks for that! I always thought eBay covered the full 20%.
It now makes a lot more sense..
If only there was some sort of Website where people could list a bargain or sale and other people could add their thoughts on the product, price and store.
To my knowledge we have seen HN, Good Guys, Petbarn, and a few others on eBay (that I cannot think OTOH) do this.
I blacklist these places and will only buy their OzBargained loss leader products.