Are Sales Getting Worse These Days?

Calvin27 on 21/10/2024 - 20:51

I remember there used to be pretty good deep discount deals on OzB and other places generally. These days it's like 20% off seems to be the max but infrequent and usually stock runs out or it's like a funny size/colour etc.

Black Friday seems to be mostly a marketing exercise with very little deep discounting and all people seem to hang out for is general ebay or amazon sales. Don't get me started on bricks and mortar, that died ages ago.

Just me or in the current day have the sales gone to crap?

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  • Jimothy Wongingtons on 21/10/2024 - 20:56
    +8

    Yes things are getting worse.
    Same can be said about the economy in general.

  • askbargain on 21/10/2024 - 21:10

    Why would it get better?

  • AngoraFish on 21/10/2024 - 21:11
    +4

    It's hard to offer big discounts when most items are essentially on sale, all of the time, on sites like Amazon and Ebay and the big box discount retailers. 50% off sales date back to a time when retail products were sold with 80% margins.

  • payton on 21/10/2024 - 21:11

    Retail. Retail never changes.
    The end of deep discounts occurred pretty much as we had predicted. Too many humans, not enough stock to go around. The details are trivial and pointless; the reasons, as always, purely human ones.

  • Maglia Nera on 21/10/2024 - 21:26
    -6

    No wonder - Big Grocery shills, the MSM, gaslight the public to hate the man who is draining the swamp!

    • DashCam AKA Rolts on 21/10/2024 - 21:29
      +4

      You forgot - tHe EnEmY wItHiN!

    • Cluster on 22/10/2024 - 10:21
      +4

      I had no idea a US political candidate controlled grocery prices in Australia. Good to know.

  • ozbs25 on 21/10/2024 - 21:38

    Maybe sales aren't quite what they used to be but I always find stuff to buy during sales but I'm probably different to most people on OzBargain. There are always deals though if you have the time or take the effort to look for them.

  • Datsun09 on 21/10/2024 - 21:41
    +1

    I feel the past year retailers have really pulled back on sales.

  • harshbdmmaster718 on 21/10/2024 - 21:42
    +1

    these days?

    did you forget about that big event, COVID when shrinkflation happened and prices of everything went up??

    these days?? it’s been happening for years. shrinkflation for even longer (reducing weight in foods).

    tbh though got some good price deals in the last year (had to effort for some though).

    • Datsun09 on 27/10/2024 - 13:16

      I was being specific to fashion/clothing/electronics online stores there was always sales during COVID.

  • netjock on 21/10/2024 - 22:06

    Shrinkflation coming to bargains.

    Should tell Albo to get the ACCC on the air in the packets.

    • bohn on 21/10/2024 - 22:18
      +1

      The 'air' inside chip packets is nitrogen gas and does serve a purpose though.

      • netjock on 21/10/2024 - 22:28
        +1

        does serve a purpose though

        Keep the bag the right shape so people can see the advertising LOL

        Shrinking the bag will alert people to the fact it got smaller.

        • bohn on 22/10/2024 - 08:10

          That's one reason, but not the main one.

  • DashCam AKA Rolts on 21/10/2024 - 22:50
    +1

    Back when I were lad……..

    • MS Paint on 21/10/2024 - 22:55
      +3

      You had to walk to school barefoot and it was uphill both ways?

      • Seraphin7 on 22/10/2024 - 09:16
        +3

        And I had to go to school ten days a week.

  • AustriaBargain on 22/10/2024 - 05:36

    Can probably blame Amazon and Temu for driving people's price expectations way down.

  • ihbh on 22/10/2024 - 06:45
    +2

    These days it's like 20% off seems to be the max

    Put yourself in the retailer's/distributor's/manufacturer's shoes. What kind of margin do you think they take overall after costs?

    and usually stock runs out

    With the internet and social media and technology nowadays, don't you think information spreads a bit faster than the past? Or do you expect everyone else to only buy after you've bought everything you need?

    • theHMASfriendship on 22/10/2024 - 08:12

      Put yourself in the retailer's/distributor's/manufacturer's shoes

      I can’t there haven’t been any good sales on shoes recently

      • DashCam AKA Rolts on 22/10/2024 - 12:47

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  • DingoBilly on 22/10/2024 - 10:02

    I don't think this is true personally.

    I've scored some absolute bangers - but seems to be about the same as usual. Maybe the rush of it all is not the same as I can almost predict when certain deals will come out but the deals seem about normal for me.

    • plmko on 22/10/2024 - 10:10

      Are you sure? Remember the days we had 20-25% discounts on Ebay plus CR 10% plus Ebay gift card inception ~40% off.

      Then you would TRS at the full Ebay price.

  • Cluster on 22/10/2024 - 10:22
    +2

    If a store can offer you 50% off discounts that just means the usual sale price is grossly inflated.

    Judge the item on its quality and price, not by the mark down.

    • Calvin27 on 24/10/2024 - 10:12

      Imo that's just modern mentality. Before retailers were aggressive marking up bs prices, they still did sales on top of their normal prices.

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