City Beach Dodgy Tactics ?

jjno41 on 09/08/2016 - 18:24
Last edited 10/08/2016 - 09:57 by 1 other user

Went in to buy a Adidas hat today for $30, all the sticky price labels on the Adidas tag said $29.99. Scanned at $29.99 too.

Then I found one without the sticker price but with a seperate price tag that had two prices - one was NZD 29.99 one was AUD 24.99. Obviously went and got my $5 back but made me wonder if this was a genuine mistake or not.

Seemed dodgy that all the labels had been removed and replaced with stickers with the higher dollar price? Either way I saved a fiver cos I was gonna pay full whack for it, but it has made me wonder if this is common practice?

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  spackbace on 09/08/2016 - 18:30

  +9

  Buying a full priced Adidas hat from City Beach…?

  GTFO

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    jjno41 on 09/08/2016 - 18:42

    It's fly out day tommrrow, the in laws are staying and my wife had a baby a couple weeks ago. My heads all over the place

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      spackbace on 09/08/2016 - 18:46

      +3

      Looks like your head
      (••)
      ( ••)>⌐■-■
      (⌐■_■)
      Now has a place!

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        jjno41 on 09/08/2016 - 18:48

        +2

        Wow. Dad is that you?

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        spackbace on 09/08/2016 - 18:49

        @jjno41:

        ;)

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  robertbruce on 09/08/2016 - 18:52

  used to be everything had a price sticker on it, but yes, it is common practice for stickers to be used to amend product/price label information…

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  captobvious on 09/08/2016 - 20:37

  maybe someone swapped the stickers on another same branded product but different line? that happens alot too.

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    jjno41 on 09/08/2016 - 20:43

    Nah, The lower price label was the kind attached with the plastic tab all of the higher were sticker type

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  kerfuffle on 09/08/2016 - 20:39

  Maybe the price went up and they hadn't changed that shirt's price yet

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    jjno41 on 09/08/2016 - 20:42

    Yeah maybe, but they were totally different types of price stickers

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      kerfuffle on 09/08/2016 - 20:45

      New stock? No idea. Have you tried asking the staff who work there to see what they say? I work in retail myself; things go up all the time unfortunately! My Clinique serum went up $5 …

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    [Deactivated] on 10/08/2016 - 11:43

    Shirt?
    He was buying a hat!
    …and you work in retail? :-)

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      kerfuffle on 10/08/2016 - 11:53

      In my defense, I worked all day (my colleague called in sick so I had to stay back) and wasn't paying proper attention. Sorry

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  rochgurl32 on 10/08/2016 - 22:09

  I could be wrong, but the label could be the RRP (Recommended Retail Price). Shops don't have to offer it at that price, although many do (or for even less). So still not cool if they're selling it above the RRP, but within their rights to.