Must be finished the Valentines Day sale.

gehenna:

 

Must be finished the Valentines Day sale.

 

And before the Presidents' Day Sale on Monday of course.

PBTech and Briscoes have to be the worst when it comes to always being on a sale, kinda makes you feel cheated paying normal price for the few days of the year they are not having a sale.

lNomNoml:

 

PBTech and Briscoes have to be the worst when it comes to always being on a sale, kinda makes you feel cheated paying normal price for the few days of the year they are not having a sale.

 

I feel like that is just the modern big-box store retail sales model.  I have been eternally conditioned now to ignore RRP and only consider buying something if I can get it for the lowest price to date.

I'm sure glad I didn't buy the G7 for $1299 last year though. Even a free TV wouldn't have taken the sting out of that.

lNomNoml:

 

PBTech and Briscoes have to be the worst when it comes to always being on a sale, kinda makes you feel cheated paying normal price for the few days of the year they are not having a sale.

 

Agree with this. It also makes the signal to noise ratio a lot worse. Item X may be on "sale" every other week, but the saving is something paltry. Then the one time it is actually "really" on sale/has a decent discount, I either don't notice or am now so immune to the red-strike-through price drop font that it doesn't really register.

Another shop I use a lot also has a sale every week, but only a couple of things and for a decent amount of savings. To me, this really seems to work as a sales tactic. I open that email *every* week to see if its anything I need (or more usually, want). I often buy something "just in case" or "it will be useful one day" since I know that item won't be reduced again two weeks later.

mdf:

 

lNomNoml:

 

PBTech and Briscoes have to be the worst when it comes to always being on a sale, kinda makes you feel cheated paying normal price for the few days of the year they are not having a sale.

 

 

Agree with this. It also makes the signal to noise ratio a lot worse. Item X may be on "sale" every other week, but the saving is something paltry. Then the one time it is actually "really" on sale/has a decent discount, I either don't notice or am now so immune to the red-strike-through price drop font that it doesn't really register.

 

Another shop I use a lot also has a sale every week, but only a couple of things and for a decent amount of savings. To me, this really seems to work as a sales tactic. I open that email *every* week to see if its anything I need (or more usually, want). I often buy something "just in case" or "it will be useful one day" since I know that item won't be reduced again two weeks later.

 

Or... set up a price watch on pricespy after looking at the lowest sale price history.

We have done it to ourselves.  If stores just listed the lower price then people would ask for more $$ of it.  People in NZ now expect sales.

The warehouse tried to fix the issue with their "every day lowest price" a few months ago but notice they have started doing more sales again.

tripp:

 

We have done it to ourselves.  If stores just listed the lower price then people would ask for more $$ of it.  People in NZ now expect sales.

 

The warehouse tried to fix the issue with their "every day lowest price" a few months ago but notice they have started doing more sales again.

 

I wonder how this compares to Pak N Save which claims lowest price everyday?

Now I've lost my price 3 there because im too poor to buy much I have been ignoring PB tech. So expensive normally and I cant be assed playing the wait for a sale game.

tripp:

 

We have done it to ourselves.  If stores just listed the lower price then people would ask for more $$ of it.  People in NZ now expect sales.

 

The warehouse tried to fix the issue with their "every day lowest price" a few months ago but notice they have started doing more sales again.

 

An interesting case study from JCPenney in the U.S., when they switched from a sale model and then quickly switched back...

Mr. Johnson explained a similar logic when he moved the chain toward simplified pricing. In January 2012, while introducing his new plan to investors, the press and vendors, Mr. Johnson said that in the previous year, the company held 590 sales events; almost three-quarters of the stuff it sold was marked down 50 percent or more.

 

But here’s the thing: customers weren’t actually paying less. The chain just kept raising the prices that customers saw on the racks, and then discounted those prices during promotions. Why keep playing a game that is expensive and troublesome for the seller and a mirage for the consumer? [...]

 

The problem, economists and marketing experts say, is that consumers are conditioned to wait for deals and sales, partly because they do not have a good sense of how much an item should be worth to them and need cues to figure that out.

 

Consumers infer that they get a great deal based on the reference point provided by the higher, presale price. Social scientists refer to this idea as anchoring, and it applies to all sorts of consumer behavior and expectations. Without that anchor, consumers have trouble determining whether the store is actually giving them a good price.

 

Even the words a retailer uses in its marketing can affect how a customer judges a deal — “sale” or “special” leads people to think the item has a high value, but a straight markdown leads them to think it’s a cheaper item, according to a study in the Journal of Retailing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/business/for-penney-a-tough-lesson-in-shopper-psychology.html

Anyone have any thoughts or experience on the philips 4k tb 55 inch for $699?

https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/TVPHS620255/Philips-6133-Series-55-4K-HDR-Smart-TV-NZ-Freeview

Yes I saw it too and am curious. Is the only thing in another PBtech "sale" that I found interesting. I was hoping a mobile phone might truely be on sale, but with their prices being so high normally, sale prices are normal prices elsewhere. I do wonder if they will ever change their sale strategy, given they buy in such bulk surely they can offer better "Sales".

For $699 how bad can it be. I presume its not HDR for this price?

I picked up a pair of Beats Studio3 for a good price.