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On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:13:05 +1000, Mr.T wrote:

> 
> "David Clayton" <dcstar@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com> wrote in message
> news:pan.2010.07.30.07.03.52.111320@NOSPAM.myrealbox.com...
>> > Does anyone know the actual law on bait advertising or where I can
>> > find it? I thought continually advertising products you intentionally
>> > had insufficient stock to meet expected demand was illegal, and yet
>> > ALDI do
> it
>> > *every* week and apparently get away with it.
>> >
>> > Frankly I can't really see it helps them, since it must just piss more
>> > people off than it actually attracts to buy other things.
>> >
>> Miss out on the 1GB drive, eh?
> 
> Yep, at 9:30 AM I was told they all went to the 200 people lined up when
> the shop opened. (Didn't say how many of those still missed out though)
> Now WHY do people find it necessary to line up before the shop opens,
> because EVERY week there is something ALDI advertise that they have NO
> intention of stocking in sufficient numbers to meet the expected demand.
> How do they continually get away with it? And why do they not think it
> pisses off more people than it attracts? I quite like ALDI for some
> groceries, but every time they piss me off with such tactics, I don't go
> back for ages!
> 
Aldi obviously get a certain quantity of stock of tech items that are
either end of life (the distributor uses Aldi as a convenient "one-stop"
outlet to clear stock in one hit) or only available in limited numbers for
other reasons.

They sell what they have and then there is no more, usually anything like
this that Aldi have is available at a similar price at the usual cut-price
tech outlets, but the majority of Aldi customers don't seem to know this.

Some people have said just go an Aldi store the night before (near closing
time) as they put the stock out for the next day and they *might* just
sell you one then, otherwise realise that there will never be enough of
some items.

If people are going to continually put themselves through stress to
essentially "save" just a few dollars because they decide that they just
*must* have the Aldi bargain, then that is the price to pay for this big
saving.

-- 
Regards, David.

David Clayton
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a
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