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[Deleted member 294929]

I know jewellery has a large mark up on it but I once bought a pearl necklace for Mrs Mottie for our 30th wedding anniversary. It was priced at £1,400 so I thought I’d try chipping them hoping to get it down to around £1,200. I started low at £900. The sales lady said she'd have to phone the shop owner. I told her to tell him I’m paying cash and I can take it right now. I thought he'd barter a bit with me. To my surprise, he accepted - it must have been a slow week or something. I remember thinking afterwards that I would have been happier if I had started lower and been driven up to £1,000. Weird, I know.

There are cheaper Pearl necklaces that you don't have to look hard for.

 

[Mottie]

There are cheaper Pearl necklaces that you don't have to look hard for.

You surprised be there Bod. I was expecting Andy to come back with that.

 

[Koolpc]

I know jewellery has a large mark up on it but I once bought a pearl necklace for Mrs Mottie for our 30th wedding anniversary. It was priced at £1,400 so I thought I’d try chipping them hoping to get it down to around £1,200. I started low at £900. The sales lady said she'd have to phone the shop owner. I told her to tell him I’m paying cash and I can take it right now. I thought he'd barter a bit with me. To my surprise, he accepted - it must have been a slow week or something. I remember thinking afterwards that I would have been happier if I had started lower and been driven up to £1,000. Weird, I know.

We all know Mottie that the necklace was for u!! Lol

 

[Deleted member 294929]

You surprised be there Bod. I was expecting Andy to come back with that.

Andy inspired me.

 

[motorbiking]

I understand it to be accepted retail strategy to lower the price of items out of stock. It does two things.

1 makes you consider an alternative assuming it is also a “great” price.
2 stops you buying it elsewhere for a “higher” price.

 

[robinbanks]

When looking at online reviews it’s important to bear in mind people are motivated to leave a review when they are pizzed off. Uneventful purchases (the vast majority) result in no review.

Also important to bear in mind the typical customer base of the shop on question, who might leave a review..

I don't doubt some reasonable products have picked up poor Wickes reviews because of the army of weekend DIY warriors who shouldn't be trusted with a task even as complex as mixing cement

I was reminded of this on Saturday when looking for a stick-down carpet protector roll for decorating and seeing one that had terrible reviews - "it sticks to me but not the carpet" - "it curls round and sticks to itself, rubbish". I suppose there really are people out there that will attempt to peel and cut a multi metre length then float it into position, arms wide, rather than unrolling and sticking as they go. Clearly some warriors shouldn't be trusted to use a roll of sellotape

If that's a roller door, then you both paid far too much for it. I paid around £400 for mine, new, complete, but not including installation.

It was for an insulated sectional double, manually operated, 2.4 by 4.2m. I'd have then had to set to and cut the panels up and re join them together with some glazing to make more like a 3 high x 3.5 wide - a lot of messing around but would have been willing to do it and aftermarket fit a motor. 300 for the door was too much for the messing though

I ended up buying a second hand Hörmann motorised sectional that was already the right size, but needed some engineering on the opener as it had been supplied with the shortest boom Hörmann do (Type K, 2.4m travel) - it naturally opened partially (the last section remained vertical) but I needed the full 3m.

I know why the builders use the shortest boom; the price difference between a short and the longest (3.4m travel, so only a metre more) is astronomical - the longer one being 3x the price of the shorter one.

I remember thinking afterwards that I would have been happier if I had started lower and been driven up to £1,000. Weird

I think that's totally understandable; I have a thing I think is worth 1000, but I take a chance and list it at 2000, someone comes along with a 1500 offer and I snap their hand off they're naturally gonna think they could have done better/I didn't think it was worth that

You've given me a new perspective on those "I'll give you a hundred quid if I can climb up there and remove and keep those two Veluxes before you demolish that garage", "no we want 120" people I was haggling with on FB. Perhaps, because FB is the home of stupid lowball offers, they assumed 100 was my very low ball, and they tried chipping it a bit to make me feel better. I felt 100 quid for two small Veluxes that I had to remove myself was actually pretty reasonable, so perhaps next time I should go in with a stupid low ball with an aim to settle on the figure I want to pay. "If you can't beat em.."

 

[Brigadier]

@robinbanks


If you're feeling mischievous enough, pop by and take a photo of the whole lot, smashed up and ready to go in the skip, and post it in the "Photo of the day" thread