Sign in. All Football. Money Shopping Lucy Alderson. How to compare prices to get the best deal. Most of them work by comparing the prices across hundreds of retailers. Here are some that we recommend: Google Shopping is a tool that lets users search for and compare prices for products across the web.
Simply type in keywords, or a product number, to bring up search results. Even if the sale signs are up always, always haggle. As I said there is still a good margin at those prices. Secondly, and this is legally dubious on the companies part, your more likely to get a discount by paying up front, particularly in cash.
The prices are set some may say inflated to cover the 'interest free' credit schemes. Finally agree early on to take out the 'stain protection plan' or whatever they call it. Initially because these are actually quite good deals and not the con many believe. Also it's extra commission for the salesperson. Lastly know when to walk away. You will get salespeople and store managers who just will not budge.
If you aren't happy with the price then look elsewhere. This means he has to haggle you up the way, not vice versa. He knows what he can let it go for so you just have to get as close to that figure as possible. If DFS have an absolute no price reduction policy you may be screwed, if they can move on price then be bold but dont take the piss. I bought a couple of sofas the other week, they were already reduced but just said well obviously if I buy two it will be much cheaper wont it?
Erm if you put it like that I guess so, got them at the price I wanted to pay and Im sure the shop owner got what he wanted too. Just had a look at the dfs website and plenty of sofas at half price. Thats before you start haggling that they are reducing the prices: therefore there is a LOT of padding in their prices we assume their sofas are padded , so if you start haggling properly then you will get it for whatever you want to pay.
Haggling is like selling. Having a bit of a rapport with the salesman is going to get you far better results than just asking for a discount — from his objective point of view, he's spent time with you, will have targets to meet etc.
The other thing is that we're not objective, as much as we kid ourselves that we are. Make the bloke like you and think there are good reasons for giving you a discount ie, young couple setting up in life, kids on way, hard up, whatever , and he'll be more likely to do so, even though from a pure cost benefit analysis of his position, it makes no difference if you're nice or not.
Have you two been living in a cave? DFS have been using this sales strategy for decades. They added that they sometimes also oversell the benefits of the stain protection insurance as the exclusions are never explained properly. We just sell it to everybody. His testimony has been backed up by another DFS whistleblower who still works for the company.
We decided to put these allegations to the test. The item was simply added. We also witnessed overselling when it came to the five year fabric protection insurance. All ten stores talked to us about it and eight of them gave the impression that anything we could do to the sofa would be covered.
This is despite there being a number of exclusions listed in the terms and conditions. When we specifically asked whether vermin damage was covered, over half the stores gave us the impression that is was even though it is a specific exemption. We also asked if the protection plan would cover the sofa if we put it in a rental property.
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