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piefed.ca

Yes but even accounting for the price spike in the last 3 months, that drive does not cost over $1,000 without a sale. These kinds of sale tactics honestly need to be illegal.

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I think they are illegal in many countries, but I guess it isn't well enforced

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In fact, in the EU that is regulated by article 6A (see https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A52021XC1229%2806%29 ) . That states amongst other things that:

Any announcement of a price reduction shall indicate the prior price applied by the trader for a determined period of time prior to the application of the price reduction. … The prior price means the lowest price applied by the trader during a period of time not shorter than 30 days prior to the application of the price reduction.

So maybe it wouldn’t apply for a 3 month period, but it does prevent stores from increasing the price by say 20% overnight and then give a “10% discount” the next day.

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My buddy called-in Sportchek when they were advertising skis for like $900 but "marked down" to 200! They had to stop that practice as a result of his report.

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piefed.ca

I'm seeing the WD 2TB at $510 off. Crazy.

Edit: The price history for these things is insane.

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piefed.social

So according to them a 2tb drive costs almost as much as my entire pc did when I bought it a few months ago. A pc which has a 1tb m.2 in it I might add. I have my doubts.

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discounts are lies, always have been, and before the "it is illegal to lie about disconts", have you ever seen it enforced? I haven't, I track theprices of some goods in some local stores where I live, I have made formal complaints, what happens? nothing, nothing ever happens

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I haven't ever seen Lovense's products not at ~50% discount. I was buying something on Christmas and rushing to beat the sale in case another wasn't for a whole, but as soon as midnight rolled around, lol and behold the Boxing Day Sale went live.

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Ah, they're warning you they will almost double the regular price after the "sale" ends, how kind.

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feddit.org

I bought the left one with 1 TB for 64€ in the beginning of December. This is around 75US$.

Even if the 2 TB would double the price, these prices from the ad are just crazy.

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I bought that exact same black one like 3 years ago. I'm almost positive it was like $150 . Maybe less.

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