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Original poster

Thinking that Boden should have enough stock if they're gonna do a sale?!

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longbay · 30/11/2013 13:10

What is the point of them doing a Christmas sale if you can't actually get hold of the item for another 5 wks or worse they're out of stock completely!

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creighton · 30/11/2013 13:12

the sale isn't about satisfying customers, it is about getting rid of this season's stock so that they can get ready for the next season. when it's gone, it's gone.

mrsjay · 30/11/2013 13:12

I suppose you are right but most sales are rubbish really companies dont want to lose money so they either put the dross on sale or have reduced stock sales are just to get you in and buying

ouryve · 30/11/2013 13:13

The whole point of sales is getting rid of old stock, isn't it?

WooWooOwl · 30/11/2013 13:13

They don't put on a sale to do their customers a favour, they do a sale to get rid of stock they want to get rid of.

LifeofPo · 30/11/2013 13:14

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TheRobberBride · 30/11/2013 13:16

But they have a sale to get rid of old stock!

ICameOnTheJitney · 30/11/2013 13:18

Well if it's old stock, why isn't it IN stock??

lottieandmia · 30/11/2013 13:19

I learned years ago that you have to buy stuff you really want early on in the season if it's from Boden.

PeppiNephrine · 30/11/2013 13:24

I think you have entirely missed the point of a sale.

JohnnyBarthes · 30/11/2013 13:25

YABU, but having said that I've just had a look and they have cock all in stock. Seems a bit premature to run out of everything when we're not quite into December!

cardibach · 30/11/2013 13:27

Jitney I'm guessing because they had a few items in the style left over and they have now been sold? THey won't reorder stuff for a sale usually as it is, as everyone else has said, about getting rid of left over stuff. WHen what is left over is sold it is out of stock Confused

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longbay · 30/11/2013 13:38

I understand the usual sale nonsense that shops do in order to get rid of crap they don't want. However a lot of stores are doing the whole 30 Percent off EVERYTHING type sale which I believe should mean they should at least have stock to actually sell.

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ICameOnTheJitney · 30/11/2013 13:44

Cardi the op said that SALE stuff would be "back in stock" in a few weeks or whatever...

ICameOnTheJitney · 30/11/2013 13:45

What I hate is the trend for shops to plaster their front with "CLOSING DOWN SALE" and you go in and ask "When are you shutting?" and they say "Oh we're not." How's that even allowed?

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longbay · 30/11/2013 13:51

Good point Jitney! I can't bear that either! There's one furniture shop in our town that has 'Closing Down' sale in their window for nearly two yrs??

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QuintessentialShadows · 30/11/2013 13:54

"Well if it's old stock, why isn't it IN stock??"

Because it is sold out?
Because it is still sitting in a warehouse in Taiwan and needs shipped to the uk, and they cant be arsed to ship it until enough people order it for it to be worthwhile for them? So they estimate that in another 2 weeks people will have placed an order, and then they get the logistics in place to have it shipped, first to someplace in the UK, and then to customers.

treas · 30/11/2013 15:34

It is when they send out catalogues advertising stock they have and then don't actually have it, is what I object to Angry

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