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Post Xmas Sale Sharp Practices

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  • December 25, 2017 at 5:17 pm #27948
    2old2mould

    Hi all,

    Being a total components-junkie I trawl the web daily looking at shiny (bike) parts.

    Saw Planet X were having a 20% of everything sale today and fancied a few bits.

    Imagine my surprise to find some items I had been looking at a couple of days ago now being offered at well over their previous price. Example, Galibier frame, was £299 two days ago, now £399… With 20% off that’s a bargain saving of -£20 to me. I wonder does PX realise what damage this does to the meagre reputation they have left.

    To be fair, Wiggle are guilty of similar. I’m in Portugal and the price of their M520 SPD pedals delivered to the arse-end of rural Portugal is €22.60 but the bargain UK price is £26. £6 more for your own market.

    Good work my friends!

    Anyone else seen any Xmas crackers and should we be outing these sharp practices?

    Merry Xmas…

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  • December 28, 2017 at 4:45 pm #908365
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    fenix

    Indeed that’s what I was
    Indeed that’s what I was trying to say. You’d expect a four pack to be cheaper per tin but it often isn’t there.

    December 28, 2017 at 3:02 pm #908363
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    Spangly Shiny
    Welsh boy wrote:
    fenix wrote:
    Tesco sell a 4 pack of beans for dearer than their buy three offers.

    Am I missing something?  Are you really surprised that it costs more to buy a four pack than it is to buy 3?

    I think fenix meant that the cost of each individual tin in the 4-pack was greater thant that in the 3-pack. So lets say you were buying 12 tins it would be cheaper to buy 4 three packs than 3 four packs, clear?

    December 26, 2017 at 7:50 am #908361
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    Welsh boy

    fenix wrote:

    fenix wrote:
    Tesco sell a 4 pack of beans for dearer than their buy three offers.

    Am I missing something?  Are you really surprised that it costs more to buy a four pack than it is to buy 3?

    December 26, 2017 at 1:12 am #908359
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    2old2mould

    Fenix – true but it is hard

    Fenix – true but it is hard to price own-brand things elsewhere… I also agree with Alan in that the PX wesbite has, for me anyway, become like one of those bargain bins near the checkout in your local B&Q. I like to have a rummage to see if they have anything I might need (most likely want but not that much) but there laughable pricing model means I often don’t buy anything as I just expect it to be potentially cheaper in a week or two and I don’t care enough if it isn’t (other than being a bit annoyed about the Galibier frame which would make a decent Crit weapon).

    If anyone has read Simon Sinek’s book ‘Start with Why’ will recognise the issue with PX and indeed some other online bike retailers. Why do they exist? What does PX stand for? The marketing is confusing, the pricing model is nonsense (Full Monty frameset advertised at £349 on one part of the site and £149 elsewhere), but overall they seem to be in this middle ground of selling odd-branded items alongside a few top end ranges. 

    Anyway, not sure why I care, but I have had some great bikes from PX in the past (in fact I still have my original Nanolight) so it’s a shame to seem them always in this perpetual cycle of discounting and incentivising on low end goods. Cheap pricing on cheap goods doesn’t build any loyalty but it’s a tough market so not sure what they could be doing (well, I do, it’s building a reputation for service and putting the customer first that builds real loyalty). 

    December 26, 2017 at 12:41 am #908357
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    Redvee

    Have a look for PlanetX on

    Have a look for PlanetX on Ebay.  Several Christmases ago I had a 20% voucher code drop into my inbox and nearly bought a London Road framset from them but by chance I looked at Ebay and found the frameset cheaper on Ebay, there was limited sizes and stock but they had what I wanted in  my size.

    December 25, 2017 at 11:02 pm #908355
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    fenix

    It’s not hard to price things
    It’s not hard to price things on the internet. Just price check elsewhere.

    I think all shops do similar things. Mars bars change in weight according to market forces. Tesco sell a 4 pack of beans for dearer than their buy three offers.

    It’s all over the place.

    December 25, 2017 at 7:21 pm #908353
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    alansmurphy

    Planet X do have the issue
    Planet X do have the issue that you can never be confident on what is an actual bargain as both their SRPs are inflated and sale stock likely to vary massively. I was looking at a carbon bike on C2W and by the time my voucher came it was 50 quid more, they weren’t for persuading that it was no longer the bargain it was before, emailing that it was still fantastic value. Maybe, but every time I’d ride it it would annoy me! Ended up going elsewhere.

    I basically treat it like eBay, pick a price I’m willing to pay and put up or shut up…

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