• Evkob@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Presenting the pricing as if it represents a bulk discount when it doesn’t.

      The only reason to do this is to trick people who can’t do multiplication into buying more.

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          Yeah, but only for 1. There would still have been no saving buying 3 over 2.

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            If original price was 9

            1 for 9

            2 for 18 (deal gives 2 off)

            3 for 27 (deal gives 3 off)

            If it was 10

            1 for 10

            2 for 20 (4 off)

            3 for 30 (6 off)

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              Yeah but it was never that. Only the original price was changed with a sticker. The 2x and 3x were always as they were.

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                I know. If the single price was anything other than 8, the other hard coded prices give scaling discounts.

                The adjusted price saves you money on a single one and removes the bulk savings. Kinda neat to me. Wonder if that was on purpose to make it easier to move stock.

                *Edit: hell, the actual way to look at this is you get bulk pricing without the bulk. This is pretty awesome and mildly interesting if anything.

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                  Does it though? The moment 2x is £16 , the cost of 1 shirt is £8. Therefore there’s no scaling at 3x. It doesn’t matter how much the starting price was or how much the later prices were, if the 2x price is £16 and the 3x price is £24. The cost of 1 shirt is only ever £8 if you buy more than one, meaning that any pricing variant over 2x is pointless.

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                    I’m assuming the £8 is a sticker put in the item and not what it originally said, since it looks raised and like a sticker.

                    That leads me to believe the original price under the sticker is greater than £8, which makes the discount make sense. And makes it interesting because the lowest a store could set a single unit and maintain the price curve is £8.

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            But you don’t pay more either. Without the discount on 3 pack, buying odd numbers would’ve been worse value than even numbers but the 3 pack discount makes all bulk purchases equal.

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          It only makes sense they did if the origianl price was higher, which is quite weird unless they specifically don’t want people to buy more than 1

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        I’d argue it’s a nice thing to make the costs obvious for people who can’t do multiplication.

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        You can clearly see there is a sticker over the original price. It originally probably was a bulk deal that the store reduced to an all around deal.

        You’re over here bitching about people who can’t do math and you can’t even see.

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          I’m bitching? About people who can’t do math? That’s news to me. Thank god you were there to tell me!

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            Oh, does “bitching” offend you? Would you rather I say “you are so prepared to be annoyed by something that you completely gloss over the facts in front of you so that you can present the situation in a negative light”? Is that better? Ffs, they LOWERED the price and you’re over here spouting Big Capitalism Conspiracies®.

            I’m way more worried that there are people like you amongst us than I am of Big Sweater confusing me with multiplication. Maybe worry more about the education system if a tag like that is so confusing to you.

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              I’m not particularly annoyed by the original post, I was just trying to be helpful and answer the question the other commenter had. Even then, this community is named “mildly infuriating” , you’d think being annoyed would be kinda the baseline.

              I will admit I’m a bit annoyed by your tone and approach to conversation, which is probably why my last comment was a bit snarky. I do apologize for that. However, I honestly don’t have the energy to deal with people initiating a discussion with immediate aggression, especially when they decide to read things into my comments that aren’t there. You should try engaging in good-faith conversation sometime, it’s a lot less exhausting than jumping at people’s throats.

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      9 months ago

      Why is this downvoted. I had the same question and I was genuinely confused. Are we not allowed to ask questions :x