Bloomin right they're laughable, you can pick them up for a quarter of the price on Ali.
Mommabear, I am so glad a missed that...I switched quickly over after seeing dirty Peter amuse himself with vacumn hoses, one limp, one rigid....you can imagine
Stop telling us we're getting a bargain. Do you not realise, if anything it devalues the brand to the consumer if you constantly show a price of £299.99 when you're selling it for £39.99. What the consumer is getting is a product that is correctly priced at £39.99. I'm not saying it's rubbish, I'm not saying it's not just as good as creams priced 10 times more. However rightly or wrongly, those more expensive products command that price due to their history, good marketing over the decades and ensuring their products are stocked in major retailers or, for the top tier products, high end stores only.
When I Google Elizabeth Grant, all you see in terms of retailers are IW, Amazon and Ebay sellers. Oh and their own website, which of course has higher prices. If it is sold elsewhere I apologise.
What IW, QVC etc won't tell you about is the studies that show a basic good quality moisturiser will often give the same results. No, they try to promote the need for a morning cream, a midday cream, an afternoon cream, an evening cream and a nighttime cream. I'd hazard a guess these are pretty much the same creams with a few ingredients added/removed to tweak them enough to satisfy consumer laws.
'And this one has the added benefit of new hydro-elastic hyper-flex protein-mineral flaxi waxi baxi flake technology.'
Tell me this, if all these pills and potions do what they say, why don't all the brand ambassadors, experts and presenters all look awesome for their age? Because they all swear by them, don't they? Without naming names, there's a guy that flogs pills on IW and one of the benefits is hair growth. However I'm pretty sure he's had a hair transplant! And there's a brand ambassador for beauty creams that has a face tighter than a drum!
Jeez consumers, wake up and smell the coffee! You know, the coffee that has beans originating from 'The Isles' ...
The whole retail sector (well maybe not but a significant chunk of it) has got itself into a right pickle over RRPs, pricing and 'sales.' I watched a tv prog a few years back on this, went into the science and human reaction to all this stuff, was quite interesting. It featured a furniture store that had been open for decades. The grandson, now running the store, recalled stories his grandad told about pricing. Each stock item had a price. That remained its price. Then maybe twice a year they held a (genuine) sale where prices of some stock items were reduced, usually to make way for new lines.
Then, in more recent times, larger furniture stores (usually part of a chain) started to open. They didn't seem to follow the traditional approach. Rather, they seemed to have more and more 'sales' and the independent store struggled to compete. Long story short, it was a case of if you can't beat them join them. So the independent store started to artificially mark its stock items up in price then 'dropped' the price in the increasing amount of 'sales' they held. Whilst this worked i.e. they stayed in business, the owner lamented that RRPs, original price, sale price etc now effectively meant very little. I think he used the example of a sofa selling in a sale for £399. It had been on sale in the store at an (artificially higher) price for a short period (e.g. £799) so people thought they were getting 50% off. However, in reality, it was always a £399 product.
It's all smoke and mirrors these days, including the small print of 'sold at the higher price for the period ...' to keep themselves within consumer law. Many retailers seem to have one year long 'sale.' It's a shame caused it's taken everything away from what a genuine sale should be. These days, I say forget the RRP, forget the 'was sold at' price, forget the 'sale' price and concentrate on whatever figure you're actually paying. If it's a reasonable price to you as the consumer, happy days
