I once had an instructor at a work productivity class give us a life skills bonus “ways to save” tip that amounted to damage the box and then ask for a discount and this woman was being paid a lot of money to run the class.
When I was a student one of my friends said how to discretely pick threads out of clothes or twist buttons off so you can get a discount, which you then easily fix at home. He once got 75% off a leather jacket by scuffing it then fixed it with shoe polish.
To be fair, it’s a matter of numbers, as commenters above have shown, people will take advantage of a “Discount damaged goods” policy, and often it leads to more being damaged, then would have otherwise, and it could end up being if £X was the orignal loss, With the extra damage, £X+1000 with a gain of £200 . so the amount lost extra, is above the gain of the discounted items
That is correct Marla. It boggles the mind that these companies make a profit with policies like this…
My grocery store finally figured this out. Always swing by the discount shelf and see what they got…
(Wound up regularly buying a couple of things that way)
Walked by at our local store one day and scored a *dozen* bottles of pure maple syrup at $1.50 each. Just because it was a few days past date.
I once had an instructor at a work productivity class give us a life skills bonus “ways to save” tip that amounted to damage the box and then ask for a discount and this woman was being paid a lot of money to run the class.
When I was a student one of my friends said how to discretely pick threads out of clothes or twist buttons off so you can get a discount, which you then easily fix at home. He once got 75% off a leather jacket by scuffing it then fixed it with shoe polish.
To be fair, it’s a matter of numbers, as commenters above have shown, people will take advantage of a “Discount damaged goods” policy, and often it leads to more being damaged, then would have otherwise, and it could end up being if £X was the orignal loss, With the extra damage, £X+1000 with a gain of £200 . so the amount lost extra, is above the gain of the discounted items