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Re: On sale or not on sale
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lugnet.lego
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Sun, 17 Apr 2005 08:56:30 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote:
> In lugnet.lego, Thomas Andersen wrote:
> > Hi Jake,
> >
> > It seems that I am not able to express myself clear enough in english, sorry
> > about that. I will try once again:
> >
> > The problem is that the price on the set K10022 was always 1784 DKK, and
> > therefore it in my opinion not an sale, but as you say yourselves it is a
> > special bundle price. But that special bundle was ALWAYS priced at 1784 DKK.
> >
> > Maybe the price of the 7 sets added together is 2098,25 DKK, but that is not the
> > importent thing here. That is the price of the set called K10022.
> >
> > In my opinion a sale is indicating that a certain piece of merchendice used to
> > cost e. g. 100 DKK and is now on sale ond the sale price is e. g. 80 DKK.
> >
> > The K10022 set has ALWAYS been priced at 1784 DKK and is therefore not on sale
> > as indicated on shop.lego.com.
> >
> > The correct text is therefore not "on sale" but maybe something like you write
> > "bundle price"
>
> So to makes sure I understand, you concern is ONLY the use of the words "on
> sale" rather than "special bundle price"?
If the words "On sale" were not present I would not be concerned, that is right.
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> > It is an illegal pratice in Denmark to say something is on sale whe the price is
> > not reduced compared to the price of the same product earlyer, and therefore I
> > advice you to stop indicating that this (and other) sets is on sale when it in
> > deed "only" is a reduced bundle price.
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> To be clear, there is NOT a new product involved here. All 7 sets are the exact
> same things you can buy separately. There is no new packaging, there is no new
> product design.
I am aware of that, I was calling it a K10022 set, calling it a bundle is a
bether word.
> I think we are probably debating minor semantics, really. S@H took a series of
> products selling at a certain price, put them together and lowered the price.
> That's a sale. The lower price means it's a sale price.
I do not agree with you on this one. You say: "The lower price means it is a
sale price" I do not agree on that. the word in my language means, just like Mr.
Isakson points out in another posting, that a item used to cost something and
now the price has been lowered. That is not the case here:
The K10022 bundle is not new on S@H. It has been there for quite some time, and
always at a price of 1784 DKK. It has until some weeks ago not been on sale. Now
it appears to be on sale, yet the price is the same, namely 1784 DKK.
That is the problem for me, and where it becomes misleading, because a sale
indicates that the price has been reduced compared to the price on the same
product earlier, and the price on the bundle is still 1784 DKK
As Mr. Isakson points out I am not trying to put pressure on the price, but
simply pointing out that S@H in my opinion is breaking Danish consumer laws, and
I don’t like it when a well named Danish company is using misleading marketing.
> The fact that this "item" has a new "product" number is simply the nature of
> selling online - everything needs to be able to be referenced in some way.
>
> I guess I'm just not clear on why on sale and bundle price aren't the same
> thing. To reduce something in price, regardless of method of reduction, is (at
> least in my personal definition) a "sale".
I hope i pointed my view out earlier.
> Maybe we're suffering from simple language differences, I'm not sure. But rest
> assured, I have passed this issue along to the S@H EU team and they are clear on
> your concerns.
I would like to ask you to let me know when a decision is made, either positive
or negative. Thank you in advance.
Thomas
>
> Thanks!
> Jake
> ---
> Jake McKee
> Community Liaison
> LEGO Community Team
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| (...) So to makes sure I understand, you concern is ONLY the use of the words "on sale" rather than "special bundle price"? (...) To be clear, there is NOT a new product involved here. All 7 sets are the exact same things you can buy separately. (...) (20 years ago, 15-Apr-05, to lugnet.lego)
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