{"id":16742,"date":"2024-05-17T22:58:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T06:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=16742"},"modified":"2024-05-17T22:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T06:58:17","slug":"businesses-with-a-reputation-of-inflated-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/businesses-with-a-reputation-of-inflated-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Businesses With A Reputation of Inflated Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I saw some products on sale which seemed like it was advertised as a clearance price which should usually mean a heavy discount. This was kind of odd though I thought as one of the products was a G0Pro 12 action camera which is technically not even a year old yet. Was it just doing bad that they wanted to clear it? For the price though they listed the clearance deal at $549 which wasn\u2019t that great I thought as the deal was better during Black Friday.<\/p>\n

The first thing that came to mind actually was how this business in particular seems to have a habit of listing sale prices that have an inflated retail price. Sure enough when I looked elsewhere I quickly found the exact same product for the exact same price except there it is listed as the regular price. So, that was a good thing to check based on history.<\/p>\n

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It makes you wonder how many customers a business actually attracts to make a sale this way. Maybe in the past when everyone relied on flyers and TV adds this would work. But nowadays with the ease of looking up prices online I think it just makes companies look dishonest where you would only shop there if you had no other real choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I saw some products on sale which seemed like it was advertised as a clearance price which should usually mean a heavy discount. This was kind of odd though I thought as one of the products was a G0Pro 12 action camera which is technically not even a year old yet. Was it just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1093],"class_list":["post-16742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-prices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/visionprice.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4m2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16745,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16742\/revisions\/16745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}