Discount or Discounted?

Discount or Discounted? Is that word a present tense or past tense? Hmmm ...

Last Saturday went to 1Borneo with the family. So we drop by at one of the shop there. At the shop entrance we saw a poster like this....

Off-Season Sale (Normal Font)
60% Discount (Bold & very big font)
Only for selected items (very small font....hmmm catchy eh?)

Since we saw the big 6 - 0 we were so thrilled to check out the things there....

So after few minutes browsing Wen finally saw 1 very cute knee-length pant. So we calculated the price after the 60% and it’s considered very cheap! So Wen decided to try it out and it fits perfectly on her so she decided to buy it! Actually she ask me to buy it too...(haha nanti jadi uniform lah pulak kan... hehe)

And what really surprise us is ................

The sales assistant tells her that the price on the tag "is the price after discount"!!!!!! And that pants is actually NOT on 60% discount ...only have 40% discount, and that is the final price on the tag.

I was really shocked. Off course mah kan.. because when we went into the store only 1 rack has that notice on it saying with 60% discount! So of course automatically u will think that whatever on that rack is on sale, right? Actually Hubby did ask which of the items that are on sale and the guy was pointing at the rack nearer to us and the one behind us! The funny thing is now he said the pant is only 40% discount???? and the price is already discounted??? WTF man??? Why do you have to put up a notice that you are having a sale and yet the price on the tag is already discounted??? And now you have 40% Discount as well??? And which item that is really on 60% discount??? My gawddddddd!!!!! Totally misleading!!And cheating too! They shouldn't put the price after discount mah kan .. they should put the before and after! aiyoohhhh ....

Poor Wen, I know she really like the pant.

Anyway, talking about all this sales & discounts item .. now I doubt it whether they do applied a valid license for their sales campaign. Because as far as I know (my previous company) it's not easy to get a license for you to do a Cheap Sale or Year End Sales. And you cannot even do sales like 10 times in a year??And when you fill up the form you must write the purpose of your sales, whether it's a year end sales, clearance stock or etc. Hmmm ..now I wonder whether all this shops doing sales got license or not ..or they just simply stick a note outside their premise saying ...buy buy buyyyyy!! Cheap Saleeessss!!!!


Anyway, the pant was hot! I love it too! But for a knee length pants that cost around $394 before discount and after discount of 40% is $236.40 ... I don’t think it’s worth it.

So be extra careful with the discount thingy, dh always reminds me that .......

And to those shop owners, please make sure that your label is not misleading to the customer... It is very frustrating and annoying you know.......