<story><title>Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I just straight-up ignore &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I&amp;#x27;ve gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; the page is is simply uncorrelated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tfandango</author><text>I have been truck shopping lately which means I&amp;#x27;m constantly hounded all day long by every dealership in the 4 state region.  Last weekend they ALL had &amp;quot;Memorial Day Sales&amp;quot;!  So I asked them all about the sale details... Every single one said if I came in they would try to make a deal with me.  That&amp;#x27;s the same thing as no sale. Actually, it is worse for cars where a sale might entail negotiating against a dealer markup.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dell in hot water for making shoppers think overpriced monitors were discounted</title><url>https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/dell-in-hot-water-for-making-shoppers-think-overpriced-monitors-were-discounted/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerf</author><text>I just straight-up ignore &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; claims now, unless I have personal experience that says this really is a sale. This is mostly limited to groceries where I definitely know that the $4 bag of chips really is on sale at $1.50. Along with all the active deception, I also just count all the times I&amp;#x27;ve gone price shopping for non-trivial things and the prices I see and how festooned with the word &amp;quot;sale&amp;quot; the page is is simply uncorrelated.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway173738</author><text>Also just because something is in a larger size, it doesn’t always make the prices better. Once I was at Fred Meyer and the 1 pound bags of lentils were $1.50 but the two pound bags were $4.00. They were charging more for larger handling units.</text></comment>