Six Deals You Need To Know About In Australia Today

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   skrybe

   July 9, 2018

   It’s really time someone took the sellers on Ebay to task for their dodgy discounting practices. Looking at a Ryzen 2700x the wonderful 20% sale has it listed by a couple places. One of which shows the before discount price at $529 meaning it’s selling at a (decent) price of $423 after the 20% discount. Annoyingly though, last week when their discount was only 10% the pre-discount price was around $470. Meaning they bumped the base price before this sale so the end figure remains roughly the same 🙁

   Now if you look at some of the other sellers they’re listing the same CPU at around $480 with 5% discount taking it to around $455. At least one though is claiming that the retail price is $599 and they’re discounting it 20% even before you apply the 5% ebay discount. Their final price to you: $455.

   However, the actual price in retail shops like Umart or MSY has sat at $469 since the thing was introduced. While I haven’t been monitoring the price hourly or even daily, I have been checking at least once a week and the price has not fluctuated at all as far as I can tell.

   So isn’t it time that Ebay cracked down on these sellers for misleading advertising? There can’t be five different “recommended retail prices” for the same item. And the base price can’t suddenly jump by $50 over last week unless there’s a valid reason.

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      skrybe

      July 9, 2018

      Oh, I meant to add one of the sellers had the CPU listed with a RRP of $799! So they were claiming something like 40% discounts, and it’s still over the standard price at Umart.

      Straight from the ACCC: https://www.accc.gov.au/business/pricing-surcharging/displaying-prices

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   2. 

      bonehead

      July 9, 2018

      I ignore the daily announcement from LH about an eBay sale. The day LH doesn’t announce an eBay sale I might actually take notice.
      If a real store had a “sale” every day they’d be forced to stop calling it a sale

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         skrybe

         July 10, 2018

         The ACCC agrees with you. It’s literally in black & white that you can’t call it a sale price if it’s the same price all the time. I feel like Ebay and the sellers who use it are shooting themselves in the foot. Maybe they’ll jag a couple sales where people see “sale 20% off” and just buy on impulse. But anyone who’s looked at it more than once has to realise it’s not really a sale. At which point the “sale” type advertising ceases to work.

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