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Re: Cool new features at Brickbay
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lugnet.market.theory
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Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:10:37 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, John Radtke writes:
> That would have been a far worse strategy for the seller and would have hurt
> the seller more than me! It would have gotten me into the store once but
> seeing such a ploy would keep me from ever going back.
I agree. If you realised, that is. Comparision shopping at Brickbay, driven
as it is by the search function only, is good, but not perfect yet.
I personally dislike stores with "perpetual sales" (there are a bunch in,
for example, the furniture business) but a lot of people get taken in.
Caveat Emptor. But I can choose not to patronise the deceptive.
> My basic thought is that the sale notice is less meaningful and carries less
> weight now without a percentage on it and will have far less influence on a
> decision to visit a given store.
I agree. A proposal I put on the table in the brickbay.suggestions
discussion group addresses it, though. I'd love to see others comment on it.
http://www.brickbay.com/message.asp?ID=297
++Lar
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| (...) That would have been a far worse strategy for the seller and would have hurt the seller more than me! It would have gotten me into the store once but seeing such a ploy would keep me from ever going back. My basic thought is that the sale (...) (24 years ago, 29-Nov-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
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