same dress - different prices!

remembering

hi all,

Just wondering if anyone has any views on this:

I bought a dress last week in my favourite colour green, cost 125
was in another shop today, exact same dress except a tiny bit longer - €40! That is the only difference except the only had it in black and navy for €40 and no green.

The reason i bought it is i adore the colour but now i feel obviously annoyed at the difference in price for the exact same dress, what would you do? I know i cant do anything because i doubt the other shop will get it in green as i know its in stock a little while.. guess not much i can do. i was thinking about writing a letter to both stores asking them why such a huge difference in price for the same dress?

Just wondering what would you do, if anything?

thanks a mil :mad:

Fittle

Well firstly, it's not the exact same dress as you've stated it was longer in the cheaper version. Plus, it's not in the green colour you bought.

So basically, its a similar dress - not the exact same dress.

Happens all the time. The same factories make stuff for loads of different retailers. I'm always seeing stuff in Primark for a few quid and then the same in other shops for 30 quid more. I wouldn't do anything, they haven't done anything wrong and they'll just claim it's a different dress with more expensive material. I just shop around carefully now.

remembering

Fittle wrote: »

Well firstly, it's not the exact same dress as you've stated it was longer in the cheaper version. Plus, it's not in the green colour you bought.

So basically, its a similar dress - not the exact same dress.

well its only about a half an inch longer and to be honest you wouldnt even realise it was a bit longer unless you were told. apart from that its the EXACT same dress except for the colour. Im just wondering why its so expensive in the other shop thats all for a different colour!!!

remembering

Louie Repulsive Transition wrote: »

Happens all the time. The same factories make stuff for loads of different retailers. I'm always seeing stuff in Primark for a few quid and then the same in other shops for 30 quid more. I wouldn't do anything, they haven't done anything wrong and they'll just claim it's a different dress with more expensive material. I just shop around carefully now.

thanks izzy wizzy for the reply but didnt some shop get sued before for copying other styles? must check the label re; material.
its the exact same i know though, just very annoying thats all. i would obviously exchange but i want the green one!!

Fittle

Perhaps the black version is cheaper - black being a pretty popular colour. Perhaps they only produced a few of the green ones, therefore it's dearer.

remembering

Fittle wrote: »

Perhaps the black version is cheaper - black being a pretty popular colour. Perhaps they only produced a few of the green ones, therefore it's dearer.

oh maybe fittle, i'll go mad if they get it in green for 40 bucks!! :rolleyes:
guess the moral of the story is to shop around nowadays!!!

whydoibother?

One shop can decide to reduce their price and consider it old stock before another will. I saw a dress that was £75 when I was considering buying it two months ago for £25 yesterday.

MissFlitworth

I think a lot of high street shops don't actually design what they sell, they have buyers who head out & source it for them. Shop A might not actually realise that Shop B has the exact same dress but with a different label. It's down the cheaper end of the scale but last Autumn I bought a tweed blazer in Awear then 3 weeks later saw the exact same blazer in the MissReal concession in Dunnes for slightly more than I had paid. It wasn't a similar blazer, was absolutely the same one just with a 'Miss Real' label. Similarly a few years back I was lusting after (but too fat to fit into) a minty green kimono top in Topshop and then came across the exact same top in black in Penneys (which I was, again, too fat to fit into )

Long-winded but what I mean is it's probable that they both just bought the top from the same factory or supplier

That's just the luck of the draw. There's nothing you should or can do about it.

It's not just dresses. Whether you're buying tickets for flights, a bag of chips, a jar of marmalade or a cinema ticket, some places will charge more, sometimes much more, for what is essentially the same thing. Own brands in supermarkets are very often the exact (and I don't just mean similar, I mean from the same factory) product as the known brand, just with a different packaging, yet they're a fraction of the price.

The responsibility lies with you to shop around before you purchase; shops have no responsibility to charge you less just because somewhere else does.

snooleen

Yes, I was complimenting a friend on what I would call kind of a structured cardigan or very light jacket (something you'd wear over your outfit when going out during the summer) that she had and asked had she gotten it in New Look as my sister had the same one in a different colour and she said 'Nope, Dunnes'. She works in Dunnes and said that New Look and Dunnes have the same suppliers.

I'm not too surprised as I bought a similar thing in Dunnes for 25 euro, it wouldn't have been much dearer in New Look. Obviously Dunnes don't buy everything from this supplier and neither do New Look but there you go :P

Tayla

remembering wrote: »

thanks izzy wizzy for the reply but didnt some shop get sued before for copying other styles?

I think Savida got sued for copying Karen Millen.

I bought a Lipsy dress a few years ago, it's the cream version of this dress, there's pics further down the page.

I wore it to a wedding, a few months after that Savida had the exact same dress, my friend bought it and it was a 100% replica, Not long after that I saw loads of shops selling the same print which is quite distinguishable but with all sorts of different necklines etc! You've probably all seen a similar dress, the print was absolutely everywhere!

remembering

thanks for all the replies everyone and happy shopping!

Ginny

snooleen wrote: »

Yes, I was complimenting a friend on what I would call kind of a structured cardigan or very light jacket (something you'd wear over your outfit when going out during the summer) that she had and asked had she gotten it in New Look as my sister had the same one in a different colour and she said 'Nope, Dunnes'. She works in Dunnes and said that New Look and Dunnes have the same suppliers.

I'm not too surprised as I bought a similar thing in Dunnes for 25 euro, it wouldn't have been much dearer in New Look. Obviously Dunnes don't buy everything from this supplier and neither do New Look but there you go :P

Snap my sister bought the beige one in New Look and I bought the black one in Dunnes, they even have the same label in the inside of the jacket.