The Price of Big Discounts
I’ve written so many times before about the online discount deals that seem to be very successful worldwide in luring people to buy products, travel vouchers, food vouchers, and all those stuff – things that people don’t really have a need for, more often than not. Like this eyelash growth curler I just saw in my e-mail (yeah, I subscribe to a lot of these sites).
But reading this article, I couldn’t help but nod about most of the comments people have forwarded about the price of getting these big discounts. Well, for one, sometimes the vendors bloat the actual selling price just to make it look like you’re really getting the deal of your life. Terrible, but that’s business for you. Then there’s bad customer service where, upon claiming your product, you’ll be treated like a second-class buyer just because you didn’t get a priced item for it’s actual value. I’ve felt this more than once, but my thought at the time was “as long as I’m getting value for my money.” After a while I felt bad, but then again, I can sacrifice my pride for such stuff, no big deal.
So do I still buy stuff from those sites? Of course. I’m less excited than I was before, but looking at my purchases, I think I still manage to have at least one purchase per month. And I’m hoping it stops there.