Flash sale ends midnight
Some items are over 60% off
Galaxy BigNSoft Monster Spa Towel - was $39 Now $9
Royal Doulton 60/40 Duck Down Duvet Inner - Was $599.99 - $749.99
Now $189.99 - $219.99
Zip Copper Brights Frypan 26cm
Was $69.99
Now $15.00
Zip Stainless Steel Matte Finish 1.7L Kettle ZIP483
Was $99.99
Now $25.00
Zip Electric Round Skillet 26cm
Was $119.99
Now $35.00
Goldair Select 7 Fin Oil Column Heater GSOC100
$35
It definitely seems like that for some of their products
You're not wrong, "Briscoes Sale" is such a meme.
You sure? I couldn't find Briscoes mentioned on there at all. They really need to crack down on Briscoes and PBTech who are the worst for this sort of thing, it's been proven a few times that PBTech jack up the price just before a "sale"
Yup, it's a known issue - you'd be mad to buy anything from Briscoes at full price because they are all jacked up.
Harvey Norman is the other one - their 'sale' is not credible at all…
Harvey Norman is bonkers, the prices you see in ther stores are nonsense.
You're right you have to trawl through hundreds of Harvey Norman specials find one or two that are actually a good deal.
@pdevonporf: The only reason I shop there is because I know a manager who gives me discounts. The only other customers I see in store are boomers with their kids/grandkids lol
It makes them seem "premium", which makes them attractive to customers with more money than sense. They rob people blind
Bang on mate! I only scrolled down to the comment section to see if anyone mentioned what I was thinking which further confirms that Briscoes have become a joke with their before and after prices. There was once a website that showed you the history of prices for a specific product. Its funny seeing Briscoes price range. Anyone know the site i'm referring to? Post it here if you do…
Might have been:
but that is no longer active - it now goes to some (dodgy by dint of the redirect) outfit selling Kanban consulting by the looks of it.
Alan.
Priceme still tracks some Briscoes items
One needs to recognize the key 'house' brands that Briscoes is able to supply extremely cheaply, while claiming that their original retail price is high and similar to an actual premium brand.
Zip
Goldair
(others?)
For these your target 'discount' is around 70%
Hilton, Galaxy and Brabantia now and then
Prestige and Hampton & Mason
There is a bunch of different types of umbrellas on there. Were "$30" now $10. They won't be no blunt quality umbrellas. But could be OK for a cheapie to have as a spare in the boot.
https://www.briscoes.co.nz/product/1095552/lethabys-savvie-g…
https://www.briscoes.co.nz/product/1095545/lethabys-910-clas…
Or type in "lethabys" to see them all
I carry that one every day - proven to be a good product.
There was a 1/2 price blunt deal posted on here once. I bought maybe a dozen of them. Never seen that sort of reduction before or since. They really are a top shelf quality product.
Also, correct me if I am wrong, but they charge $3.00 for 'click and collect' - the deal would have to be phenomenal for me to want to pay to collect.
Alan.
It was free click and collect until last year.
Yeah I make some sucker post and deliver for $2 more than pay to go into a store like I could anyway.
It's a bit like a door cover charge to enter a shop.
Suppose the Managing Director has to fund the cost of his helicopter rides to and from home some how.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/briscoes-boss-rod-duke-b…
😲 Holy shit, Briscoes is having a sale!!! 😯
🤣🤣
Just checked my email. We bought a 30cm Zip Copper Brights Frypan in January last year and it's still going strong. Paid $17.99 so that deal above is pretty good.
I used to work at Briscoes over 10 years and many people used to comment while in the store saying things like
* You guys increase the prices before a sale
* You remove expensive items so people can't buy them at a discount
Both of those statements are not true. We never went around restickering items or hiding stock. While (as mentioned above) some items have a decent markup that allows for 60% off, that's not the same for all items. You can easily spot the items that have a high markup as they always have 50-60% off when they go on sale.
Unfortunately with all the sales customers got used to not buying things at full price from Briscoes (I definitely don't!) so sales are the only way Briscoes can keep customers coming back
Can understand their position. With competition around that might be the only way to entice customers to their stores. Different in Home improvement industry - No real competition - mainly a duo poly with Bunnings and Mitre 10 - They can have an easy-as 40% margin and there is no need for real discounting/promotion tactics.
The funny thing is that supermarkets do the same thing week-to-week, with actual base price fluctuations, and no-one bats an eyelid
Yes and supermarkets stopped normal discounting/promotion during the lockdown and people noticed price increases in their weekly shop and supermarkets claimed there were no price increase and they were right ,but also a deceptive statement because they had actually stopped there normal discounting/promotion tactics.
Was there any outcome to that govt investigation?. Now that both major stores list prices online you can monitor the actual discount.
@coffeee: The problem wasn't the amount of discount it was more the lack of discount which they use to rotate. For instance ice cream stayed up at around seven dollars, but normally they would discount to $5.50 every three weeks or so and that stopped during the lockdown. And yes there was a lot of huffing and puffing by the government at the time but there doesn't seem to be any outcome, I suppose that was then this is now.
Yeah, the hiding stock one never made sense to me especially for small loose fragile items. And now that I think about it, many items do have individual price stickers which leads to a similar objection. I think I pointed out before that the cost to getting staff to go around repacking/moving stock just made no sense. It's come up most in relation to 50% off everything sales, but even the 50% off sales are only 25-20% better than their typical sale minimum. Having been to a Briscoes near the end of a decent sale (possibly boxing day) and seeing how much almost looked like there had just been a natural disaster, it's clearly just customers buying the stock. Maybe a small number of staff although stuff at Briscoes isn't like some electronic store so I don't think there's generally so much room to Trademe very good deals.
I might be in the minority here but I feel like the warehouse needs a shout out. Their everyday low prices often mean I pick up most things there. For the larger ticket items I do wait and shop around but they still price match - online retailers and price beat - others.
Wasn't this because they got into trouble with commerce commission in the past? and so they changed to everyday low price.
Yup they made a conscious decision to stop the %off sales a couple years ago. Mind you they were only copying Kmart, who never do it. Kmart has the shelf price, and sometimes they go on clearance. (Which are genuine clearance.) That's it.
I agree with the comment above - TWL have been getting killed by KMart, and have gotten pretty much paranoid amongst their senior management - at least the ones I've known.
The biggest problem TWL have is that their after-sales service is pretty crap. If you need a spare part or something is missing from a pack, they are willing to help, but no longer seem to be able to actually handle that. Five / ten years ago they were fantastic, but now very poor.
KMart always took a different approach, which was to just give you a whole new one (mostly they just told you to keep the one you had already as well - probably so they didn't have to dispose of it!) Great from a customer service perspective, but not so much from an environmental one perhaps.
Alan.
It cracks me up seeing the things that Warehouse choose to stock - like some of the As Seen On TV stuff will just sit there, then land on clearance, then continue to sit there because nobody wanted the stuff in the first place. With Kmart, they don't seem to have many misses in the buying department at all - their constantly-empty shelves are a testament to this. Warehouse have also only just decided to cease selling physical media, which is a move Kmart made so, so long ago.
Warehouse just come across as totally directionless and reactionary.
Its suspect its just a 'cut costs' approach, which ultimately has led to reduction in service, and hence getting killed by KMart (and in many cases, probably hasn't actually cut costs at all). They did redundancies around Oct 2020, then needed to hire back a load of staff for Xmas, but local stores were barred from approaching anyone who had been made redundant, so they had to hire untrained people, exactly when other staff had no time to train them./
As a management approach, its what you might expect from a child of sixteen - devoid of any true strategy.
Alan.
I'd suggest against buying a zip frypan. Those things are rubbish. $15 is too much I can't imagine that ever being worth $70. Try grab a tefal at 50% off or even a Kmart one will be better.
I dont have one myself, but I have read that the Kmart frying pans are excellent!
https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/the-17-kmart-frying-pan…
Some of The Warehouse pans are good value too. Picked one up after sunshinenz's comment and it is definitely a keeper.
If it's the one I think Briscoes pretty regularly have it at $9 as a "doorbuster deal"
I been feeling the last couple of years that Briscoes has all its products well overpriced and they reduce them to an ok/good price during these sales. But I might be wrong.