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The Importance of Shopping Around
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14-04-2009 12:34pm#1Slight apologies in advance for the Mods; I'm not 100% sure where this thread should go and as it relates to fashion I decided on this forum.
Last Saturday I happened across a little boutique and spotted an amazing dress, really elegant, timeless, fabulous dress......that is until I saw the price tag of €600.00. I then put the dress back on the rail and left the shop pretty quickly.
However, as soon as I was back in the car I said to my mother that I just had to try it on to see what it was like. My mum being the great woman that she is said, sure why not and if you're lucky it will look awful and take the decision out of your hands!. Went in, tried it on, dress was fabulous. Spoke to sales lady re: discount (also had 2 tops and another dress in my hands at this stage) who looked down her nose at me and said, no, no discount whatsoever.
So we left, when we were back in the car my mum produced the name of the designer and the type of dress and onto the Net we went. I have now secured the €600.00 dress for €250.00 incl post from the UK. The dress is by an Australian designer and it costs €250.00 from Australia too.
How on earth can a shop here in Ireland justify pricing the dress at €600.00.
Anyway, at the end of my long story, I just want to say: shop around people.
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Clare Bear wrote: »Wow good buy!! Definitely worth shopping around like that.
I am surrounded by boutiques where I live but I don't go near any of them. Ridiculously overpriced and the staff are usually stuck up cows! Congrats on your huge saving!
It beggers belief doesn't it? Selling that dress at €250 (which still isn't cheap I realise) the other shops in Australia and the UK aren't making a loss but €600.00 in Ireland is obscene.
The staff in this particular shop were so rude I am tempted to do a Pretty Woman on them:D Want to come and watch??0 -
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It beggers belief doesn't it? Selling that dress at €250 (which still isn't cheap I realise) the other shops in Australia and the UK aren't making a loss but €600.00 in Ireland is obscene.
The staff in this particular shop were so rude I am tempted to do a Pretty Woman on them:D Want to come and watch??
Ha ha how savage would that be to turn up in that dress and make disgusted faces at their other stock? Take that snooty cow! 0 -
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Clare Bear wrote: »Ha ha how savage would that be to turn up in that dress and make disgusted faces at their other stock? Take that snooty cow!
Big mistake...HUGE...
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Lobelia Overhil wrote: »Where and when?! I'll bring my camcorder!
Can I name and shame??? Well, to start off I'll give the name of the designer.The dress is by Leona Edmiston www.leonaedmiston.com and she has some really lovely things. When I spoke to the girl in their shop in London this morning she tried to be nice and tell me that I could get the dress here in Ireland. I told her that I knew that and had actually tried on this particular dress I wanted but that it cost €600.00 here. She was flabbergasted.
The boutique............can I name it without getting into trouble??
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It's disgusting that a shop could overcharge like that, if it was €40 more than the UK they'd get away with it easily enough but they must think the customers are completely stupid:eek: Retailers like that are exactly the reason customers are using shops as a showroom to look at things they later order online.
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I got the Hannah 990CS, this is it http://www.leonaedmiston.com/. If you click on "collections" at the bottom of the first page of the website, the second picture that comes up is one of a girl lying across a bed while this guy looks at her, the dress she is wearing is mine!mylittlepony wrote: »What dress did you get?
Good for you name and shame.
No more rip off!!
I think they were trying to be ironic:rolleyes:It's disgusting that a shop could overcharge like that, if it was €40 more than the UK they'd get away with it easily enough but they must think the customers are completely stupid:eek: Retailers like that are exactly the reason customers are using shops as a showroom to look at things they later order online.
Strange name for a shop that sells such expensive clothes too
I've been buying quite a bit of stuff from the Net too, mostly from the Mosaic chain of shops. Jumpers, shirts, etc have all been working out around €40 / €70 cheaper.RacoonQueen wrote: »I do the same. I go into town, try stuff on then go home and buy the stuff on the net. Even buying from a shops own website can save you 50 or 60 euro for an outfit. One jumper for example that I bought in January was 79 euro in the shops store here, I knew it was 45 pounds on their site as I'd been browsing the day before, so I put it back on the rail and went home and bought it online saving myself about 30 euro. For that jumper and two pairs of jeans only had postage of 8 euro so I saved a bomb.
I have to admit I have been thinking of getting in touch with their head office in Australia. When I was talking to the sales girl in London she couldn't believe how much they were trying to charge me for the same dress.Surely the designer wouldn't want shops marking prices up like that either. It wouldn't be good for her brand especially when her prices are affordable as designer fashion goes.
I think the shop should be reported to the designer, she must have a "recommended retail price" for her designs which is clearly around €250.
I know! You'd think they'd offer even 10% for cash or something. To be honest even at 10% I still wouldn't have bought it was way too expensive. I since found out that the woman who owns the shop is on maternity leave with triplets and the two women who were there on Saturday were her mother and mother in law! I think with triplets the owner would have been willing to have any sale at all.lala stone wrote: »I cant believe they didnt even offer like a 5%-10% discount! surely business isnt so booming that they cant make a bit of a loss?!0 -
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So the dress arrived on Thursday with a lovely handwritten note from the sales assistant in London. She thanked me for my custom and said once again that she was astounded at the price difference and hoped that she'd be hearing from me again:D
Now, where to wear it tonight, fancy dinner I think 0 -
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