• QuickyOP
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      71 year ago

      Yeah, but only for 1. There would still have been no saving buying 3 over 2.

      • @squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world
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        If original price was 9

        1 for 9

        2 for 18 (deal gives 2 off)

        3 for 27 (deal gives 3 off)

        If it was 10

        1 for 10

        2 for 20 (4 off)

        3 for 30 (6 off)

        • QuickyOP
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          Yeah but it was never that. Only the original price was changed with a sticker. The 2x and 3x were always as they were.

          • @squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world
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            I know. If the single price was anything other than 8, the other hard coded prices give scaling discounts.

            The adjusted price saves you money on a single one and removes the bulk savings. Kinda neat to me. Wonder if that was on purpose to make it easier to move stock.

            *Edit: hell, the actual way to look at this is you get bulk pricing without the bulk. This is pretty awesome and mildly interesting if anything.

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              Does it though? The moment 2x is £16 , the cost of 1 shirt is £8. Therefore there’s no scaling at 3x. It doesn’t matter how much the starting price was or how much the later prices were, if the 2x price is £16 and the 3x price is £24. The cost of 1 shirt is only ever £8 if you buy more than one, meaning that any pricing variant over 2x is pointless.

              • @squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world
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                11 year ago

                I’m assuming the £8 is a sticker put in the item and not what it originally said, since it looks raised and like a sticker.

                That leads me to believe the original price under the sticker is greater than £8, which makes the discount make sense. And makes it interesting because the lowest a store could set a single unit and maintain the price curve is £8.

                • QuickyOP
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                  Exactly. In which case the 3x price is redundant.

                  There is no curve.

                  • @squirmy_wormy@lemmy.world
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                    01 year ago

                    Well sure - they put one sticker on and it solved everything. Are you suggesting they should have put a sticker to adjust the price of a single item and then also put another sticker on to hide the 3x item? That’s not only a waste of stickers and time, it also really doesn’t add or remove anything from the situation.

                    I’d argue you are the mildly infuriating part of this scenario at this point.

      • @Lojcs@lemm.ee
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        But you don’t pay more either. Without the discount on 3 pack, buying odd numbers would’ve been worse value than even numbers but the 3 pack discount makes all bulk purchases equal.

    • @thepreciousboar@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      It only makes sense they did if the origianl price was higher, which is quite weird unless they specifically don’t want people to buy more than 1

    • ares35
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      gotta jack the price up again to afford more price stickers.