How Bunnings Rips You Off

LDommal on 27/03/2018 - 22:17

Hi all,
Just bought a 'quality' countersink set from Bunnings a few weeks ago for $16 regular price, after using it 3 times one of the drills broke so i took it back today and replaced it with the same set only to realize that they increased they price by $5.

I find it disgusting how big coorps just bump up the price by 25%+ for no reason, no wonder that everybody buys shit out of china…

https://www.bunnings.com.au/p-n-4-piece-quickbit-pilot-drill…

Anyhow, be careful what you buy at the 'lowest prices'.

Cheers

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Comments

  • follow on 27/03/2018 - 22:23
    +1

    did you pay $25?

    • D C on 27/03/2018 - 23:58
      +3

      Considering the amount of pointless whinging, apparently he did.

      • follow on 27/03/2018 - 23:59
        +2

        Haha it was a warranty replacement tho. Seems he wasn't clued up

      • Splashtash on 06/04/2018 - 08:48

        Such a boring rant from op… used one example with little insight. They bump up price for profit. There is s reason just probably not one you like or researched to find out the real reason.

  • k-rokfm on 27/03/2018 - 22:37
    +3

    Price was likely lower when you bought it to price match a competitor and then raised back to normal pricing after they had it on sale.

  • reno on 27/03/2018 - 22:49
    +9

    if you want "quality"… then u should pay for the quality items…

  • p1 ama on 27/03/2018 - 22:52
    +14

    I find it disgusting how big coorps just bump up the price by 25%+ for no reason

    Nothing disgusting about it - market sets the prices. If customers are not willing to pay $21, they will realise quickly and set prices back to $16 (or even lower). If customers pay $21, why should they not charge $21?

    Their product, they can charge however much they want, you choose whether you want to buy or not. This is not like healthcare or education where there is a moral argument for prices being capped. I don't understand how Bunnings is ripping you off.

    • ScuseMe on 27/03/2018 - 23:11

      Couldn't agree with you more. Some people act like these "big corps" are pointing a gun at the customers and forcing them to buy their products. smh…. Don't like the prices shop else where.

      • ItsMeAgro on 28/03/2018 - 10:05
        +4

        Yeah, just go to Maste… oh.

    • djkelly69 on 28/03/2018 - 00:56

      Must….crush….capitalism

    • elf888 on 06/04/2018 - 13:17
      +1

      Price set by supply and demand is work in a perfect market which is not exist in this world.
      There always some other factor affected the pricing.
      Oligopoly in our hardware situation is drifting the price higher which mean some sort of rip off from Bunnings.

  • 17833 on 27/03/2018 - 23:19
    +5

    According to pricehipster.com your figures are a little inaccurate. Price was $16.90, now up to $20.89, so $4 difference. https://pricehipster.com/product/jpjogLtg608Lkiv_sAcXLA~HJ1K…
    You can see by this that the price for this product has fluctuated over the last few years, on the 21st April 2016 the price was $20.97, so pretty much the same as the price now.

    • [Deactivated] on 28/03/2018 - 21:54
      +1

      bunnings prices vary by store.

  • ScuseMe on 27/03/2018 - 23:19
    +2

    Welcome to Ozbargain! What a great thing to post for the first time.

  • mbck on 27/03/2018 - 23:58
    +4

    Yeah op is right. They should just give everything for free. Damned corporations. They don't do anything anyways.

  • Ughhh on 28/03/2018 - 06:50
    +1

    Op is a rip off for making such misleading and entitled post.

  • tomsco on 28/03/2018 - 07:19
    +12

    Wait… please don’t tell me OP paid the difference for something that should get replaced under warranty.

    If so, OP ripped himself off.

    • follow on 28/03/2018 - 20:51

      Yep I'm pretty sure he did hahaha

  • berger on 28/03/2018 - 08:30

    First world problems…

    you bought at the lower price, and got it swapped no issues.

    Do you complain when apples are $3/kg one week and then $5/kg the next. 5KG adds up to $7.50 that's a bloody outrage!

  • jason101 on 28/03/2018 - 08:32
    +1

    Bunnings is owned by Westfarmers which in turn is partially owned by pretty much every super fund, who in turn are owned by everyone in Australia with a job. Effectively every time Bunnings rips you off, every working Australian benefits - so thanks !

  • DarkOz on 28/03/2018 - 08:43

    I hate it every time when someone treats a cheaper/discount price as normal price and when the cheaper/discount price goes back up to normal it instantly becomes a ripoff!

    This happened to me last week when a customer complained that we had put up the price by 20% instead of appreciating the 20% discount we granted him over the last 2 years. Not even a thank you but a nasty email claiming that he could find cheaper and better else where!

    • Quantumcat on 28/03/2018 - 09:14
      +4

      I guess your customer couldn't do maths either. If you decreased a price by 20% then when you put it back to normal it would have increased by 25%.

  • TheBilly on 28/03/2018 - 09:27

    Don't have this problem with expensive brands that bunnings stocks.

    • berger on 28/03/2018 - 12:02

      P&N is an Australian brand. part of the Sutton Group

  • Speckled Jim on 28/03/2018 - 10:34

    no wonder that everybody buys shit out of china…

    Hmm? So next time I need a toilet, I'll pay more for shipping and have no consumer protection.
    Or just buy the Chinese-made toilet from Bunnings like I did last year.
    It still goes well.

    • Euphemistic on 29/03/2018 - 06:30

      Came with a supply of fibre?

      • Speckled Jim on 29/03/2018 - 10:07

        Not unless you count the box that held it.

    • elf888 on 06/04/2018 - 13:10

      Ha ha. it will be fun if you take the toilet to Bunnings for an exchange or refund………

  • Seraphin7 on 28/03/2018 - 11:56

    Thanks.

  • stirlo on 28/03/2018 - 13:52
    +1

    OP obviously should have whinged and got a warranty replacement if it meant that much to them.

    But that said ever since Masters went out of business Bunnings has been slowly removing quality brands and increasing the prices of their discount ones.

  • [Deactivated] on 28/03/2018 - 21:57
    -1

    I ripped off bunnings by returning a 4 year old charger that stopped working and got it replaced. I didn't feel guilty as it probably just had a blown fuse but had specialty screws that made it difficult to open. It had the manufacture date on the bottom of it and I was really hopping they wouldn't know this - they didn't.

  • Laziofogna on 29/03/2018 - 18:35

    If you had it replaced how could they ask for the price difference?

  • rompastompa on 29/03/2018 - 18:42
    +1

    Hmm.. I can't see where they mention 'quality' in the product description…

  • metalhead on 31/03/2018 - 12:07
    +2

    Wow, I knew Bunnings being a monopoly was always going to be bad, but really didn't think it would end up being this bad. Bought a 10m gutter guard in 2015 for $9.97 (when Masters was still around) and bought the same thing in 2018, now the same thing is selling at Bunnings for $17.58. An increase of 76.33% in price. What a rort! See attached invoices (https://ibb.co/cBurS7) !

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