2 For 1 Offers
Discussion
REALIST123 said:
Derek Smith said:
I always look for BOGOF when buying shoes.
Regarding the main topic, it is sometimes annoying when you want to buy just one bottle of cold coke for the journey yet have to seemingly buy two to get it anywhere near its actual worth! However, I usually end up just buying 1 single 2litre bottle of Pepsi Max...
I do feel your pain, most bogof's are a con but occasionally they're awesome!
Moonhawk said:
Why didn't you just buy one, if you only wanted one.
You were obviously prepared to pay whatever price one box would have cost had the offer not been on - so what difference does the offer being on actually make if you only want one box - you'll have paid the same price regardless?
Incorrect. Did you not cover business studies at school? Apparently its an 'academic' subject You were obviously prepared to pay whatever price one box would have cost had the offer not been on - so what difference does the offer being on actually make if you only want one box - you'll have paid the same price regardless?
The price of the first item has been inflated to justify the cost of the '2nd' item. As others have rightly mentioned...infrequently the price of a bogof does actually make it worth it, largely due to old/out of date stock. Until then, you're bring ripped off on the original item to make any excess profit back on the second. Hope this helps
Source: GNVQ (generally not very qualified) Level 2 in Business studies and 2 case-studies, including Little Hay Golf Course near Bovingdon and Londis Abbots Langley).
LordGrover said:
bad company said:
Read the thread. In particular read the comment by SpeedMattersNot on page 2. You may learn something useful.
TBF, that was posted after BSR made his comment. 
Just get p**d off with mindless name calling on PH. We need a cull of the 'braindeads'
SpeedMattersNot said:
Moonhawk said:
Why didn't you just buy one, if you only wanted one.
You were obviously prepared to pay whatever price one box would have cost had the offer not been on - so what difference does the offer being on actually make if you only want one box - you'll have paid the same price regardless?
Incorrect. Did you not cover business studies at school? Apparently its an 'academic' subject You were obviously prepared to pay whatever price one box would have cost had the offer not been on - so what difference does the offer being on actually make if you only want one box - you'll have paid the same price regardless?
The price of the first item has been inflated to justify the cost of the '2nd' item. As others have rightly mentioned...infrequently the price of a bogof does actually make it worth it, largely due to old/out of date stock. Until then, you're bring ripped off on the original item to make any excess profit back on the second. Hope this helps
Source: GNVQ (generally not very qualified) Level 2 in Business studies and 2 case-studies, including Little Hay Golf Course near Bovingdon and Londis Abbots Langley).
Using your Pepsi analogy:
Tesco often have offers on this - but the price for a single bottle is always the same (around £1.98). Therefore if I go in to buy one bottle - i'll pay £1.98 regardless of whether the offer is on that week or not. The fact that I could get 2 bottles for £3 is irrelevant to the price I pay if I only want one bottle.
The argument as to whether the £1.98 price point is set to skim profit from the times when the offer is on is a separate issue.
Edited by Moonhawk on Thursday 28th August 11:11
bad company said:
blindswelledrat said:
Just buy one then, you complete weirdo. You're still buying the thing you went to buy for the price you would have paid for it.
Ridiculous
Read the thread. In particular read the comment by SpeedMattersNot on page 2. You may learn something useful.Ridiculous
blindswelledrat said:
Back in the real current world as opposed to the 20 year old GNVQ world they don't do that any more so you can dry your eyes and just buy what you like, secure in the knowledge that the nasty man isn't defrauding you.
Not defrauding no. But they are inflating the price of one item to subsidize the second (usually unwanted) item.bad company said:
blindswelledrat said:
Back in the real current world as opposed to the 20 year old GNVQ world they don't do that any more so you can dry your eyes and just buy what you like, secure in the knowledge that the nasty man isn't defrauding you.
Not defrauding no. But they are inflating the price of one item to subsidize the second (usually unwanted) item.bad company said:
blindswelledrat said:
Back in the real current world as opposed to the 20 year old GNVQ world they don't do that any more so you can dry your eyes and just buy what you like, secure in the knowledge that the nasty man isn't defrauding you.
Not defrauding no. But they are inflating the price of one item to subsidize the second (usually unwanted) item.bad company said:
I always feel short changed because imo if they can make such an offer the first item is clearly over priced.
I left Boots without buying anything and got my antihistamines from a small local chemist.
How much did you end up paying for them compared to the Boots price?I left Boots without buying anything and got my antihistamines from a small local chemist.
bad company said:
blindswelledrat said:
Back in the real current world as opposed to the 20 year old GNVQ world they don't do that any more so you can dry your eyes and just buy what you like, secure in the knowledge that the nasty man isn't defrauding you.
Not defrauding no. But they are inflating the price of one item to subsidize the second (usually unwanted) item.BOGOF et al works fine for us. The way we play the game is - if we need/want something on BOGOF we buy it. If we don't need/want we don't buy.. Cunning eh
furtive said:
bad company said:
I always feel short changed because imo if they can make such an offer the first item is clearly over priced.
I left Boots without buying anything and got my antihistamines from a small local chemist.
How much did you end up paying for them compared to the Boots price?I left Boots without buying anything and got my antihistamines from a small local chemist.
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