Wind in your sales
I don't understand people.
This is the time of year when our newspapers and television are full of advertisements for the winter sales. Spend, spend, spend and you can save (eh -how does that work?) ten percent, fifteen percent, fifty percent, seventy-five percent off list price. Plus a further ten percent off that if we're feeling particularly desperate. Deferred payment, interest free credit, heck, just take it away and we'll forget we ever saw you.
If you've got to buy something, now is surely the time to do it. But hang on a minute - we've all just blown two months salary on all those presents for Christmas. We've bought all the things we wanted and paid full whack for them. Isn't it a bit annoying to see them all selling for a tiny fraction of our hard-earned now? Shouldn't we be battering down the shop doors and demanding (some of) our money back?
It's not as if we didn't know the sales were coming, so I guess we've only ourselves to blame if we're out of pocket. But it's an odd way for shops to go about rewarding their customers. Hey, you bought this last week, but if you'd just waited a bit you could have had it for half as much!
And we keep on coming back, year after year.
Madness, sheer madness.
This is the time of year when our newspapers and television are full of advertisements for the winter sales. Spend, spend, spend and you can save (eh -how does that work?) ten percent, fifteen percent, fifty percent, seventy-five percent off list price. Plus a further ten percent off that if we're feeling particularly desperate. Deferred payment, interest free credit, heck, just take it away and we'll forget we ever saw you.
If you've got to buy something, now is surely the time to do it. But hang on a minute - we've all just blown two months salary on all those presents for Christmas. We've bought all the things we wanted and paid full whack for them. Isn't it a bit annoying to see them all selling for a tiny fraction of our hard-earned now? Shouldn't we be battering down the shop doors and demanding (some of) our money back?
It's not as if we didn't know the sales were coming, so I guess we've only ourselves to blame if we're out of pocket. But it's an odd way for shops to go about rewarding their customers. Hey, you bought this last week, but if you'd just waited a bit you could have had it for half as much!
And we keep on coming back, year after year.
Madness, sheer madness.
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