Comments on: There’s a sale, Ruth! http://connection-revolution.com/theres-a-sale-ruth/ connect with spirit. connect with others. connect with yourself. change the world. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:51:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tanya http://connection-revolution.com/theres-a-sale-ruth/comment-page-1/#comment-914 Tanya Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:53:02 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1074#comment-914 Megan, bonus rant to add on to yours: I hate that they don't just apply the freakin' discount when you check out. They want you to READ their lousy email, PRINT it out, and present it to the cashier half the time. So, even if the email ever convinced you to go to the store, you might not end up getting a sale price anyway. Megan, bonus rant to add on to yours: I hate that they don’t just apply the freakin’ discount when you check out. They want you to READ their lousy email, PRINT it out, and present it to the cashier half the time. So, even if the email ever convinced you to go to the store, you might not end up getting a sale price anyway.

]]> By: Megan M. http://connection-revolution.com/theres-a-sale-ruth/comment-page-1/#comment-888 Megan M. Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:09:56 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1074#comment-888 UGH! Barnes & Noble does this to me. I HATE their constant daily barrage of discount emails and I go out of my way to avoid spending money with them. I can't figure out why they think what they're doing is okay. It's incredibly annoying. Complain, complain! ^_^ UGH! Barnes & Noble does this to me. I HATE their constant daily barrage of discount emails and I go out of my way to avoid spending money with them. I can’t figure out why they think what they’re doing is okay. It’s incredibly annoying.

Complain, complain! ^_^

]]> By: Oliver Danni http://connection-revolution.com/theres-a-sale-ruth/comment-page-1/#comment-887 Oliver Danni Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:10:32 +0000 http://freakrevolution.com/?p=1074#comment-887 Ah, see...I would never spend $50 on a shirt, that's already way too much of a scam for me. One of the local health food stores has a thing where if you spend $50 (not including bulk items), you automatically get 10% off your purchase. I like it, because it motivates me to buy a couple more items -- which at the health food store is pretty much always a good idea, and supports the local business, which I'm happy to do -- and on a few occasions has worked out so that I get a single item that I was expecting to pay for, for free. I guess I'm not so bothered by when stores do things like that because if it's not a store that I already feel good about spending money at, I probably wouldn't spend my money there anyway, or be on their mailing list...and when it IS somewhere that I'd want to spend money anyway, it might motivate me to buy something that I want but might not have otherwise been likely to purchase for myself. One example is the Super Saver Shipping on amazon.com: if you spend more than $25, you get free shipping. Almost everything that I would buy on amazon.com is at least $10-15, and I can always think of one more item that I've been promising myself I'll buy and then talking myself out of to add to my shopping cart. It rarely even takes the items longer to ship...one trick I've learned with online shopping is that almost every time you order something, they actually ship it out as soon as they can, regardless of whether you picked the "regular" or "slow" shipping option, and the only time a regular package would get delivered sooner than a slow one is if it's a REALLY slow day in the mailroom. So when I do the math, I find that I've just saved a bunch of money on something that I actually really wanted and just hadn't convinced myself to purchase yet! But again, I'm less bothered by stores trying to convince me to buy things I don't want, because I'm pretty confident that it doesn't work on me. Convincing me to buy something I really DO want, and am just having trouble justifying my spending the money on it, gives a store bonus thumbs up in my mind. :) Ah, see…I would never spend $50 on a shirt, that’s already way too much of a scam for me.

One of the local health food stores has a thing where if you spend $50 (not including bulk items), you automatically get 10% off your purchase. I like it, because it motivates me to buy a couple more items — which at the health food store is pretty much always a good idea, and supports the local business, which I’m happy to do — and on a few occasions has worked out so that I get a single item that I was expecting to pay for, for free. I guess I’m not so bothered by when stores do things like that because if it’s not a store that I already feel good about spending money at, I probably wouldn’t spend my money there anyway, or be on their mailing list…and when it IS somewhere that I’d want to spend money anyway, it might motivate me to buy something that I want but might not have otherwise been likely to purchase for myself.

One example is the Super Saver Shipping on amazon.com: if you spend more than $25, you get free shipping. Almost everything that I would buy on amazon.com is at least $10-15, and I can always think of one more item that I’ve been promising myself I’ll buy and then talking myself out of to add to my shopping cart. It rarely even takes the items longer to ship…one trick I’ve learned with online shopping is that almost every time you order something, they actually ship it out as soon as they can, regardless of whether you picked the “regular” or “slow” shipping option, and the only time a regular package would get delivered sooner than a slow one is if it’s a REALLY slow day in the mailroom. So when I do the math, I find that I’ve just saved a bunch of money on something that I actually really wanted and just hadn’t convinced myself to purchase yet!

But again, I’m less bothered by stores trying to convince me to buy things I don’t want, because I’m pretty confident that it doesn’t work on me. Convincing me to buy something I really DO want, and am just having trouble justifying my spending the money on it, gives a store bonus thumbs up in my mind. :)

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