GSF / Eurocarparts pricing stratergy

This is starting to annoy me a little now.

Have just priced up and subsequently been to purchase new Bosch wiper blades for my daily driver.

GSF price £71.20 with their current 50% discount £35.60

Euro car parts price £40.99 but with their current 30% discount £28.69

Needless to say that I went to Eurocarparts on click and collect.

While I was in there an elderly chap came in and asked for some blades for his Golf stating there were three sorts listed online and he was confused. The lady at the counter states they were just different brands and all fitted the same. He said in that case he would have the Bosch ones, she quoted £28.99 the 99 indicating to me that this was without the 30% online discount.

I couldn't help it, I piped up and offered to book them for click and collect so he could have the discount. The lady was most unimpressed and said she could do trade price at the till.......that still wasn't 30% off.

I sorted it out for the old fella in the end but what is going on with these companies?!?

£70 for wiper blades?!? Never in a million...... fake sale almost certainly.

How can it ever be right that a company will willingly rip off the elderly or those that are less tech literate ?!?

GSF's current discount ends tomorrow.....I'll be very interested to see how much those blades are listed at then.

Is it not an illegal practice to advertise fake sales?

 

To add more confusion the Euro invoice shows the list price of the wipers to be £31.41 that would appear to be with VAT..... so their web listed prices would also appear to be fiction to support a fake discount.

 

you have exposed their marketing scam, and yes companies do try to rip off old folks like me, but I still have a brain so challenge or walk away.

 

Other outlets are available - just don`t go back , no brainer

 

It happens everywhere. All big stores will give you a better price online as it's easier for them. They'll always have higher prices in store as they know mugs will come in and not quibble.

 

my landy blades was 50 euro each ,bought a pack of three on e bay for 9.99...

dry stored them after the ct (mot)

 

I guess.....I just found it a bit crass that the old fella and I mean in his late 80's I'd guess, would have so readily been taken advantage of. I'm perfectly capable of shopping around online etc but to some you may as well be talking another language.

 

Really ??

The post is titled pricing strategy , not "shock - horror - pensioner ripoff "

Their strategy is their business , i don`t like it , i don`t use `em .

Shame about the old boy but you did the right thing ...

 

i got stung by heritage last week by phoning up to check some info that was not listed online but as the price was the same I ordered them, they then charged me postage as it was a phone order not an online order with free postage. didn't realise until it was to late....................live and learn.

 

That's not really what I'm saying..... the base price is being artficicially inflated to to support the wild claims of 50% discount online. Then said unsuspecting elderly chap walks in and gets pinged for the inflated price.

I totally understand why things are cheaper online ( although it does make a mockery of you can stand in the store and book it out online then pay at the counter - the difference in effort for the staff is minimal ).

 

Just looked and GSF are quoting the Bosch blades for the old chaps Golf at £45 even Halfords are only £32 for the set.

 

Its why when the elderly couple next door wanted a new battery I offered to order it and pay for it online and my wife collected it for them.

What goes around comes around.

 

A friend claimed that he registered on the Eurocarparts web site and selected some parts he wanted but never checked out/purchased them leaving them in his cache so to speak.
He claimed that after a couple of days he received an email offering the parts in his cache at a reduced price and then a few days later another email offering the same parts at less than half price.
If this actually works it may well be a way to get all the parts at a reduced cost.

 

I've been on the Porsche website. I've left a 911 in my basket. We'll see if it works

 

Euro Car parts do that if you don't finish an order on line.

 

And GSF are the new DFS they have a 50% sale every weekend

 

Buggerrr Iv'e just bought a Panamera