where is the grand slam of lenovo savings !?

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soyroca · #1 Post by **soyroca** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:20 am

i've decided to buy a new CTO T61 until yesterday, the total price was 990 u$d. (the savings are 25% until April 7). so expired. but
now (8 april) i saw in their home a big advertise saying "A GRAND SLAM OF SAVINGS... Save up to 28% on selected T series notebooks." savings end April 21"

so, i'm very excited about that UNTIL i went to order my new system and saw that exactly the same CTO T61 now cost 200 u$s more than yesterday, including the "FABULOUS" 28% discount.

so i ask: where are the discount? maybe they don't actualize the CTO web yet?

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#2 Post by **Harryc** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:03 am

Welcome to the free market system. Lenovo is free to set pricing any way they wish, just as you are free to take your business elsewhere if you don't like it. It's a pricing game...raise the price and then have a huge sale. It's done every day by a good percentage of companies in the system. Evidently Lenovo has done some market research that tells them that if they use the word 'sale' daily in their advertisements they sell more machines. They are 'always' having a sale it seems, some better than others. If you wait awhile a better one will come along shortly.

ajkula66 · #3 Post by **ajkula66** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 9:22 am

I think that the keyword here is "selected"...

soyroca · #4 Post by **soyroca** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:12 pm

i don't like the free market system. anyway: in the T series page is written:
From: $1,061.00*(I cannot cross out, but in the web is crossed out)
Sale price: $881.40*

IF I aply a 28% i'm not able to get $881.40 and I GET $763.92
how can they explain this? i'm missing something?

goofyGAguy · #5 Post by **goofyGAguy** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:10 pm

soyroca wrote:i don't like the free market system.

That's too bad. Most people feel differently.

soyroca wrote:how can they explain this?

See Harryc's fine post above.

#6 Post by **bill bolton** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 5:52 pm

soyroca wrote:IF I aply a 28% i'm not able to get $881.40 and I GET $763.92
how can they explain this? i'm missing something?

The offer definitely does not mean 28% off everything, and also indicates that any level of offered discount is only applicable to selected models.

So, on some models a discount which may go as high as 28% is on offer, that is why is specifically says "up to". Typically there will be a few models that do have a 28% discount, but other models will have lower, though usually still worthwhile, discounts.

Cheers,

Bill B.

where is the grand slam of lenovo savings !?

where is the grand slam of lenovo savings !?

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