Hardly Normal NAME YOUR PRICE sale

x in the city

lol

what will they have next :rolleyes:

AlmightyCushion

Customer: I'll take that for minus €1000.
Sales rep: minus €1000?
Customer: Yes, I'll take it and you'll give me a €1000.

Seriously though, what actually happens at this? How does it actually work? I assume you can't just go in and take a 50" tv for a fiver.

okidoki987

Harvey Norman in Bargain Alerts :eek::eek::eek:

x in the city

I'm curious, I might pop in over the weekend and expect to see not one tv for less that 1000e

yoshytoshy

You could walk in with 500 euro. Walk up to a tv for 630 and wave the cash around:)

lindtee

Jaytee and I went in a few months back and they had a table of name your price items (such as plasticy dvd shelf things/old ds accessory sets and other such silly things that I cannot recall) I think we offered 2 euro (each mind you) for the dvd thingys and the ds yoke.....we went off thinking we were great but it didn't take long for us to realise we'd been had!!!

During the Jan sales, I bought a dvd player....54.95...I asked your man could he do it for 50.....jaysus you'd think I'd asked him to cut off his legs, the look he gave me. Felt really embarrassed.I bought it anywayat the 54.95....I knew I'd been had as I walked out the door:pac::pac:

lindtee

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Customer: I'll take that for minus €1000.
Sales rep: minus €1000?
Customer: Yes, I'll take it and you'll give me a €1000.

Seriously though, what actually happens at this? How does it actually work? I assume you can't just go in and take a 50" tv for a fiver.

I'm still laughing at this...:pac::pac: Had me in stitches! (Just back on thread to laugh at it again)

connundrum

lindtee wrote: »

Jaytee and I went in a few months back and they had a table of name your price items (such as plasticy dvd shelf things/old ds accessory sets and other such silly things that I cannot recall) I think we offered 2 euro (each mind you) for the dvd thingys and the ds yoke.....we went off thinking we were great but it didn't take long for us to realise we'd been had!!!

How exactly had you been 'had'?

How does this even work? Is it like an auction where the 'winners' are called back at the end of the day or what?

lindtee

I was only having a laugh! No, what I meant is what the time we went they only had a couple of tables of various rubbishy items included in the name your price promo many of which could be got in the pound shop. I don't think that you could name your price for anything that wasn't on these tables. But maybe this current "sale" is different and you can in fact name your price on decent stuff

sue97

Was there yesterday, looking at a fridge. They seem to be prepared to drop about 10% off the asking price on all items because I could not haggle any lower then 10% on either of the items I was looking at.

Maybe look for 15% discount and settle for 12% if you can get that high??

Mossy Monk

Name Your Price Sale. So I didn't mishear the advert. Cowboys

connundrum

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Name Your Price Sale. So I didn't mishear the advert. Cowboys

Should read -

Name your price sale*



*providing your price is within the set discount structure we've worked out prior to the sale.

veryangryman

connundrum wrote: »

Should read -

Name your price sale*



*providing your price is within the set discount structure we've worked out prior to the sale.

How would they make money out of the dopes then?

Gran Hermano

veryangryman wrote: »

How would they make money out of the dopes then?

Sell them ultra gold plated zero oxygen HDMI cables for €1k a pop.

alastair_doom

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Sell them ultra gold plated zero oxygen HDMI cables for €1k a pop.

Dont forget to buy the extended warranty :pac:

zuroph

If a compnay has to ask/beg customers to haggle with them, its not the company are idiots.

yoshytoshy

Got some stuff in there cheaper than online before ,someone made a balls of a sales list:pac:

Tiesto

i take it the 0% interest deal is over now?
I was wanting to get a tv but was out of the country last week..

wmpdd3

If the 0% interest offer is over and you can now get a discount of about 10%, then you were paying 10% interest anyway.

(OK so the interest won't be compound)

Best advice go to the credit union!

wasim21k

wmpdd3 wrote: »

If the 0% interest offer is over and you can now get a discount of about 10%, then you were paying 10% interest anyway.

wasnt that 100% interest free?????

Wertz

Tiesto wrote: »

i take it the 0% interest deal is over now?
I was wanting to get a tv but was out of the country last week..

Yup...there was absolutely zero interest in it. :pac:

Was walking around their Dundalk branch during that promotion...they had all the prices taken off the big ticket items and replaced with a monthly payment price. Talk about just confusing people further...

wmpdd3

I mean if you bought your item last week at price 10% higher than you could have this week then it cost you 10% of the price of the item for the interest free offer.

Not a very important point but makes you think.

The_Conductor

sue97 wrote: »

Was there yesterday, looking at a fridge. They seem to be prepared to drop about 10% off the asking price on all items because I could not haggle any lower then 10% on either of the items I was looking at.

Maybe look for 15% discount and settle for 12% if you can get that high??

You should have gone to DID- they actively welcome people haggling with them. I got 25 quid off an undershelf fridge (half the size of an undercounter fridge- its marked price was 135- I got it for 110).

Shop around for christs sake......

thecons

Was in HN today looking for a suite of furniture. Put my eye one two, the first was €1619, haggled to €1500 and free delivery (€45). Then spotted the suite of my dreams at €1799 and thought great! If I can get at least 10% off this I'll be made up! Turns out, if the item has been reduced already, even though that's not mentioned anywhere on the shop floor, you can't haggle. The guy told me it was reduced already from €2850 to €1799. Fair enough, a grand cheaper, but what's with the haggle add??? He was having none of it. We were there for about 1.5 hours and I didn't see one person buy anything! Will say, the assistant was very helpful, but wouldn't haggle with me at all!

Niska

Haggling eh... Wonder if they have any free gourds...?

Orion

That's my gourd! And my juniper berries!

bcirl03

smccarrick wrote: »

You should have gone to DID- they actively welcome people haggling with them. I got 25 quid off an undershelf fridge (half the size of an undercounter fridge- its marked price was 135- I got it for 110).

Shop around for christs sake......

Agree with you there - whats even better is you can bounce the Power City prices off DID prices and get more money off.

Tiesto

do DID have any payment plan options?
I was in harvey normans yesterday and they have none at the moment for tvs.

lindtee

Harvey Norman's did actually give me money off before....last year I was buying a multi-region dvd player, the price was up at 49.99 but your man gave it to me for 29.99.....(I think he fancied me:pac::pac:) I didn't even have to haggle or anything, he just said to the woman on the til it was 29.99!! Its still around 44.99. I think its the young fella's who won't give you anything off, so try for the more mature gent.;);)

POKERKING

has anyone noticed if they have put there prices up 1st?just curious?dont want to haggle for 10% off and get it at the price it was 2 weeks ago, ive to do a whole house head to toe so i need to save as much as possible

Lenny

Tiesto wrote: »

do DID have any payment plan options?
I was in harvey normans yesterday and they have none at the moment for tvs.

I was in did last week..
they have 6 months intrest free payment plan..
I was also in harvey normans aswell the same day looking at the same tv, 1,500e I am going to buyt it.. said it was a little to dear.. he aggreed with me and that was that!

bobbbb

I went in for the fun of it. You can haggle 10% off. So its a 10% below marked price sale. Unless you are an idio and and they get you to agree to only 5% off.
I also noticed that a couple of things we were looking at a few weeks ago had actually increased more than 10% since then.

Its just a gimmick to attract idiots. Steer clear.

Zonda999

bobbbb wrote: »

I also noticed that a couple of things we were looking at a few weeks ago had actually increased more than 10% since then.

Its just a gimmick to attract idiots. Steer clear.

Typical of Harvey Normans! I genuinely do hope they pull out. They contribute nothing to the Irish consumer electronics and homeware shops, except annoying advertising of course. With prices like theirs(Their beaten by power city or DID for more or less everything), i'm amazed they've survived this long here anyway. My only guess is that the "idiots" have fell for the constant bombardment of their advertising. I think a better strategy is to skimp on advertising and offer good prices. You never hear DID or Power city advertising except for around Chrimbo

bobbbb

Zonda999 wrote: »

Typical of Harvey Normans! I genuinely do hope they pull out. They contribute nothing to the Irish consumer electronics and homeware shops, except annoying advertising of course. With prices like theirs(Their beaten by power city or DID for more or less everything), i'm amazed they've survived this long here anyway. My only guess is that the "idiots" have fell for the constant bombardment of their advertising. I think a better strategy is to skimp on advertising and offer good prices. You never hear DID or Power city advertising except for around Chrimbo

You're bang on.
In Swords there is a DID 2 doors down from Harvey Norman. Anything at all you see in HN you walk up to DID and its always cheaper.

rom

zuroph wrote: »

If a compnay has to ask/beg customers to haggle with them, its not the company are idiots.

I have tried to haggle with them before about 2 years ago. They wouldnt have it. Fine I hope they go under as they sell overpriced crap.

Headshot

I was going to buy a samsung series 6 tv from Harvey Normans.
Everything was going grand paid a deposit and was told ill have it with-in 3 days

rang them on the 3rd day,no tv instock

this sort of thing went on for a while, around 2 weeks later still no tv

in the end,I took my deposit back and walked away
how can they fog of their customers like that,ill never know

good riddens id say

went into expert electrical a while back and the customer care was brilliant,got a lovely stand for only 250 euro,they wanted 300,got them down to 250

okidoki987

20% off total of €1,500 in DID
(20% back is in vouchers for DID so might be worth while holding something back to use the vouchers on).

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055506447

zuroph

rom wrote: »

I have tried to haggle with them before about 2 years ago. They wouldnt have it. Fine I hope they go under as they sell overpriced crap.

I've always haggled there, most recently, got a €800 fridge freezer for €710, cheaper than anywhere else could do it for.

Darthrodney

I went in today, very nice lady served me and my wife ... couch set was 2300Euro ... straight off the bat she says "I can give it to you for 2000Euro, haggling to irish people is just not in our make up" then she did us a deal on the delivery too ... worth the trip to me anyway ... can't argue with a 300Euro discount ... no muss, no fuss

cmdrRiker

Harvey Norman are a bunch of marketing idiots - spotted today a Kenwood red steel standing mixer plus free red steel blender for 499 EUR. Nice bargain...unless you have been to HN a week before and you have seen the same mixer for 300 EUR and blender priced 150 EUR. Indeed a bargain..

What's even more shocking is a Samsung 50" plasma priced at 900 EUR whereas in the almost next door DID the same TV was priced at 700 EUR.... Bargain of a century, no doubt about it.

wmpdd3

i though this my self but when I took model no. I clouldn't find any other ROI suppliers or even prices on the net.

I was helping a friend fut out her new house and we were sure prices were put up before sales but we could never prove it.

Anyway we ended playing 3 suppliers off each other and getting a discount of €1000 off on €6000 worth of stock!

It was more like a business deal than haggling for a tenner off a sweater.

Santa Claus

Zonda999 wrote: »

Typical of Harvey Normans! I genuinely do hope they pull out. They contribute nothing to the Irish consumer electronics and homeware shops, except annoying advertising of course. With prices like theirs(Their beaten by power city or DID for more or less everything), i'm amazed they've survived this long here anyway. My only guess is that the "idiots" have fell for the constant bombardment of their advertising. I think a better strategy is to skimp on advertising and offer good prices. You never hear DID or Power city advertising except for around Chrimbo

Harvey Normans main selling point is the finance. Hence why people without cash or credit cards go to them instead of DID or Powercity and don't mind being over-charged as they're getting it on credit. It's basically the hole in the market that the ESB shops used to serve where you could put a purchase on your esb bill !


I go to Harvey Normans to browse for stuff as their shop layouts are much better than Powercity and DID (powercity always reminds me of a jumble sale). If I see something I want in Harveys I go to Powercity for a written quote and then buy the item in DID and if they're not cheaper they'll always price-match (had too much hassle in the past with powercitys non exsitent after sales).