2 For 1 Offers

[bad company]

Am I alone in getting peed off over these? I just went into Boots to buy some antihistamines as I was feeling a bit sniffy. Apparently if I buy 2 boxes I get the second box half price.

I wanted to buy a shirt in a shop in town a few weeks but I only wanted 1 not 2.

In both cases I left the shop without making a purchase.

[bad company]

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.

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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.

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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.

Yes but I would have thought that the commercial reasons for BOGOF deals was obvious.

Just get p**d off with mindless name calling on PH. We need a cull of the 'braindeads'

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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.

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Countdown said:

In the vast majority of cases they aren't defrauding you. They are able to price the second item cheaper because they have recovered their "fixed" costs in the sale of the first item. They will also have obtained a discount from the supplier for the sme reason (for FMCG the marginal cost will be lower as supply increases).

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

I never said defrauded. To me the first item is overpriced to allow them to discount the second. Nothing on this thread has convinced me otherwise. If the price of the first item increased at the start of a BOGOF campaign it would all look a bit obvious.

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furtive said:

How much did you end up paying for them compared to the Boots price?

Fair question but I ended up with a different brand so can't answer.

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Tiggsy said:

op today....


that apple is £1

I'll take it

you can have a second for free if you like

what???? you can keep your apple - I'm outta here and off to moan on the web

Good example. It would be madness to pay £1 for a single apple so clearly the retailer would be using that sale to be able to offer the second apple FOC.

Edited by bad company on Thursday 28th August 22:49

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blindswelledrat said:

Soo 100 people saying that they don't inflate the price of the first item hence you are paying the same doesn't 'convince you otherwise'?
Interesting stubborn stance.
It's not antihistamines you need for those sniffles its a tissue and to stop being a massive crybaby

Why do you think you can win an argument by name calling?

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blindswelledrat said:

The 'argument' was already won. I was just mocking your stubbornness to acknowledge anything that has been said.

Yes, of course you won the argument.

What a clever chap you are.

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Mermaid said:

Such promotions are to encourage consumption.

BOGOF, BOGOHP typically fully funded by manufacturer to encourage use/loyalty of their product against their competition. Retailers claim full discount from suppliers, and end up making a higher margin on the single items sold where the end customer has not taken benefit of the offer.

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wolves_wanderer said:

I worked in a shop that did this sort of offer all the time and the price never went up to allow the multibuy to be subsidised.

With your complete unwillingness to accept any contradictory evidence, have you considered a career doorkncoking for the Jehovah's Witnesses?

So the shop just decided to give away the second item for nothing? As it was presumably not a charity shop this sounds unlikely.

The funding has to come from somewhere - if not the shop then the manufacturer.

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blindswelledrat said:

Never mind the kids return to school next week and young tom won't be around as much.

Not very good at debate are you.

[bad company]

Funny old thread this one. Lots of explanations and justificatios for BOGOF but really just another wheeze by the majors (retail and/manufacturers) to relieve us of our 'hard earned' .

It is increadibly naieve to believe to believe that BOGOFS are there for any other reason.

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JensenA said:

Just start shopping at Lidl's or Aldi.

Never been to either. Do the do BOFOF?

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Countdown said:

BOGOF are there because they increase profit. This is done via "economies of scale" rather than ripping off the customer.

Why do you think your corner shop charges more for a single loaf of bread than Asda does?

I'm not saying that BOGOF means rip off but I prefer to buy the quantity I want rather than increase somebody else's profit. I just find such deals irritating.

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Countdown said:

With BOGOF you can still buy the quantity you want. OR you can take advantage of the BOGOF (which will benefit you, the retailer and the supplier).

You think individual items are priced more expensively when they're in a BOGOF offer. Trust me, they're not.

Whether the promotion was paid for by the shop or the manufacturer it seems to me that the original single item could have been sold cheaper. Can't help it I find that a turn off.

I look at restricted offers in the same way. I was in Austin Reed in Cambridge where there were signs offering a student discount. I'm not a student but will not knowingly pay more than the next person for the same item so did not buy.

No doubt somebody will be along any moment to say was also crazy. Oh well.

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TKF said:

You're going to hate it when you find out people's salaries are different too.

No problems there. I managed my own business for over 20 years so set my own salary.

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Countdown said:

That's the point. It COULDN'T have been sold cheaper. Shops need to sell a minimum number of units at a certain price to cover their core costs.

If they halve the price of BOGOFs they would need to sell twice as many which is unlikely.

Of course the shops have costs which must be covered. I never said that the initial product should be sold at half price.

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wolves_wanderer said:

t gets better. Hopefully you never go anywhere that offers an OAP or kids discount. It must also be hard for you to buy gas and electricity with the nagging feeling that, amongst the tariffs, somebody may be paying less.

I have no problem with kids discount but I wonder if OAP's should still be offered discounts. Many of them are much better off than the poor b*****s trying to bring up a family and pay a mortgage.

I go to a fair amount of trouble to get the prices for gas, electric, phones & Sky etc. Why wouldn't I?