I don't understand the Goody Guys 'Less for Cash' offer...?

[Indadhanu]

I don't get it! LOL!

Well, whats considered cash? I always thought it was just that - cash or using your savings or whatever. I thought credit cards weren't cash.

But Shel and I put a few things on the CC (washing machine and dryer) and we still got their 'less for cash' price. In fact, they never asked, they just gave it.

Do they ever NOT do a deal? I'm confused LOL

[feeb]

As far as I understand is that if you are paying in full on the spot no matterhow is cash, eftpos or CC.

I think if laybe or finance needed they wont give here cheaper price.

[Indadhanu]

Lol, thanks feeb. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed at the moment That makes sense

[Arimeh]

gee they must have been really Good guys, cos we went to ones in brisbane once, and they wouldn't give us the "less for cash" price because we wanted to pay with a credit card.

We refused to pay the other price, and it went through their management, and we were ready to leave (our argument being that it is basically cash for them) and eventually they gave it to us.

[AliBaby]

When we got a tv recently from good guys, I said to them that Harveys had offered me a deal that was $150 less and they matched it. I hadnt even been into Harveys and my mum put it on amex.

I think there is so much competition out there that if you are confident and know what you want they will offer you a discount as they work on commission.

Dont worry Leash, You arent a blunt tool! They have just changed since they first started it.

[diannescruffy]

Their discount isn't really that great, I know it's better than no discount at all. We spent over $500 and paid cash and only got $10 off.

Regards,
Dianne

[nic]

I use to think the same thing as well Leasha, that it had to actually be cash. Then I had a friend who ordered a lounge from out of town, and paid 'cash' when it was delivered..her cash was a cheque though. I found it weird.

I went into Good Guys while visiting my parents a few weeks ago, to get a rice cooker for DH as he was cooking dinner for everyone. Anyway, no one was around, so i just picked up the rice cooker and took it to the counter, they then called someone to the counter to take it and me back to their little computer so they could give me a discount. I thought if i took it to the counter myself, that they wouldn't give me a discount, but they did.

[Schmickers]

To really get the benefit, you have to haggle. I bought a laptop for a friend the other day at Good Guys, ticketed at $1050. They immediately offered it to me for $1020 for cash. I sent them back to pretend to work something out a couple more times because I wanted it for $950. We haggled it down to $960. I was pretty proud of myself actually, I almost never haggle (because we always seem to be buying things on finance) but this friend had the cash in her purse so away we went.

[~Raven~]

The Good Guys down here will knock more $$$ if you give them cash in the hand. The price on the ticket is what you pay eftpos or cc. Some cc's ie amex incur a surcharge on top of the ticketed price so I've been told

[bon]

I recently paid for a new washing machine at the Good Guys using a credit card and got the cash price - it was about $20 off or something. Plus I got a $100 store credit for buying a washing machine that week - it was a promotion they had going that I didn't know about, so that was a nice bonus lol, I went back later and got a food processor for free.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

We bought something there not long ago, can't remember what it was, but the salesgirl said they don't really do that anymore, they just offer the discount straight off....but then again, they still advertise it, so maybe they do go lower if you're loud or something

[Indadhanu]

Well we got $216 off a 420L fridge last night!!! YAY!!

[Just Me]

All those electrical stores have such a huge mark up on their stock that it is easy for them to do a discount price. They only have to make a certain minimum percentage of profit on each product and they have room to move with any profit margin higher than that. Their 'discounts' are quite often still much bigger than the profit margin they want to make.

My DH was a sales rep to electrical companies for a couple of years. He also said you are more likely to get a bigger discount if you don't use a great deal of their time. If you go into buy something and um and ah for a couple of hours, they won't mark things down as much as if you go in and buy something quite quickly because you have used more of their time.

I don't know if every sales person is exactly the same - individual sales people have a lot more power than they let on and sometimes it is worthwhile talking to a different sales person if the first one just won't budge (try and find one that looks desperate for a sale - most have to sell a minimum amount to get commission paid and they have targets they are meant to be meeting).