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Originally Posted by Alfy
The purchases are linked, you cannot get one without the other, so looking at the savings on the second item separately is misleading, a practice that is common, albeit not usually with books, it's mostly used in supermarkets. If this kind of false advertising does not bother anyone else and you're just happy to get the deal, then so be it, but don't call me on my maths.
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Fair enough. However, everywhere either puts items on sale showing savings from RRP that they are rarely sold for or inflates the prices of items before putting them on sale so they can pretend you are making a bigger saving. Or in the example you are talking about, linking products, making you spend more and 'highlighting' the savings.
They are pretty much the same thing as far as I can see, and as you say yourself, these kind of sales tactics are common practise. Immaterial of being bothered with it or not, seems pointless to me to target one retailer and start a thread about their little white lies?
