Everyday all of us have to deal or not to deal with the “super occasions”. For example, I noticed that if I am going shopping and let’s say the price of the cans of soup is 1.95 per can one day, I will buy the exactly amount of soups which I need it . But the next day, if the store is priced the exactly the same can of soup for $1.95 but with a tag saying "maximum 8 cans per customer," I as a shopper will think that the deal is so good that I should take advantage before others do. ( I will buy those 8 cans even I do not need them).
The second example – I just came back from the cell phone store. I saw there a note FREE iPHONE - Small print: When you subscribe to a 36 month contract at $80 per month so if we have to pay 36 installments of $80, then it is not free.
The third example, LAST MINUTE VACATION. My friends just came back from that kind of vacation – it was a disaster. They paid less for the vacation ( but nobody mentioned extra costs for the parking, breakfast, transport from and to the airport (which was include in regular offer). They also had to change their hotel for not as good as they suppose to have it. When we buying a discount last minute travel package we have to deal that is too good to be true, always we have to look at the fine print - or any other print there is. I guess we need to prepare our self for extra costs that may not be included with the base price; price that we see initially on an offer.
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I agree with you that most of time, the businesses tries to trick us. I remember once I went shopping with my father,and I saw buy one get one free sign front of the item I wanted to buy, but they doubled the price.
ReplyDeleteI know, these things are crazy!
ReplyDeleteLast year I almost was caught in one of these trips! But then I went online and I read comments from people who didnt like it. So I read in my paper that I had two day to cancel the trip! Got my money back, thanks god!