Sales? What Sales???
It said on the news yesterday (so it must be true) that shops were offering pre-christmas discounts to get us all spending money in a recession. And today – we had to pop briefly into the Westfield Queensgate shopping center in Lower Hutt, to have a look at cameras. You see ours packed up, and I’m bored of using Hubby’s iPhone as a camera with its complete lack of zoom and flash.
So we figured we would make the most of the “bargains”.
Well for a start – if theres still a recession on in New Zealand (and if there’s an ounce of fact in the whole “Kiwi’s are not consumerist” ) – you couldn’t tell today from the masses of bags that people were carrying and the sheer number of people in the centre. We looked quite out of place with no logo-emblazened shopping bags full of presents.
And if Dick Smiths has a sale on – it sure as hell wasn’t on cameras. At least – if they were discounting with the few “Hot Deals” we saw – they werent telling you what the normal retail price was. Not that I trust stores to tell the truth on this issue – Briscoes being teh worst crooks for blatantly marking up the retail price to show a “Sale Price”.
So we took some notes on the cameras we liked – and have to now go check on the internet to find the best price. I do hate not being able to trust stores about thier pricing. Oddly enough – the Canon website doesnt list any recommended retail prices – which is less than helpful. A quick scan of the Noel Leeming website site shows once of the cameras at $100 less (on a $350 camera). I guess the bargains are out there is you have the energy to look.
It’s at this point that I remain forever grateful that my entire family is obsessed with reading, and we can generally sit back – ignore the shops and the rush, and order online.
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- Briscoes: You’ll never buy better?
- Attempting to use the Whitcoulls “sale”
- Now thats nearly more shopping than I can possible imagine.
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