Carpetright sales?
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Thank you for doing this little bit of field research.
We went to a few mattress stores this July (2011) and were quite taken by a Carpetright mattress called Icon 1200 http://www.carpetright.co.uk/king-icon-1200.html which was on sale for just under £500.
After our holiday we wanted to buy it, only to see that it is now on sale for £1199 on the website -- interestingly, a higher spec mattress in the same series Icon 2000 is on for only £639.20 -- at a big "discount" -- at least the site http://www.carpetright.co.uk/king-icon-2000.html (accessed 22 Aug 2011) says ; Our List Price*: £1,599.00 * applied from 04/05/2011 to 31/05/2011 Was £799.00 - Now £639.20 -- shows you what they did: 4 weeks at an inflated price, and then months and months of claiming "SALE".
It's scandalous --
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Hi Adrian.
Thank you so much for verifying this.
As you so rightly say - it is is scandalous.
The sad thing is, is that many people are taken in by it.
The same is true with sofas and other large ticket items where the consumer has no idea of actual worth because they are items that are purchased once in a blue moon.
Unlike grocery shopping for example, we are well aware of the general price of coffee, milk etc and so this price reducing tactic does not have the same effect.
Incidentally, I believe the Icon range from Carpetright is made by Breasley - very 'similar' if not 'same' bar fabric pattern to Breasley's Salus range.
Thanks again Adrian for taking the time to comment.
very much appreciated.
John and Ryan.
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