This afternoon.
Hours after a quarter of Ryanair’s Irish-based pilots started a 24-hour strike this morning…
Marketing email from Ryanair drops into customers’ inboxes announcing an eight-hour extension of their summer sale.
Earlier: This Is Your Captain Speaking: The Left Wing Is On Fire
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So should they stop sales of tickets until the pilots come back on duty?
Does anyone even consider 10% off, a “sale” worth bothering about?
I never have, just wondering….
I’m not buying until it’s 50 percent
That’s a sale I’d look at !
Agree, also it’s ‘up to 10%’
ah defo no!
actually you should be able to get decent discount by simply asking the sales rep nicely (yes even online via chat applet if they have one, or even via email)
amazes me how few do it, should be asking all the time! another example of our cultural dna tendency to compliant I reckon
some targets to set yourself next time you’re buying:
electrical items like tellys, white goods 15%
clothing 10%
building materials 20% (especially tiles & external stone paving etc)
power tools 15%
usually I’ll have a go at anything….main thing is just ask
PS Bodger is the app server broken at moment? keep getting that old cant post at the moment error
+1 on all that, thanks for the online tip too!
defo Clampers, give it a go
I succeed more often than not, always a very good chance in a traditional shop scenario. just ask. ceramic tiles are a great one to get u into the swing – normally they’re sold @400% markup – yes you read that correctly…so even when tilecity ltd or whomever are on a halfprice campaign they’re still @200% markup…you’d be silly to ever ever pay full price for any form of tiles/grout/adhesive
actually even today I swung a markdown on a new laptop…well known manufacturer with a chat support applet on the website…they had an offer campaign on certain models but not on the one I was after…so I opened up a sales chat, explained what I was after (not failing to mention similar laptop from rival, hinted was a pity no offer on for particular model) and bingo the rep opened up a discount code field on my cart checkout, gave me a code, -15%, nice deal!
I do ask in traditional shops… learnt that from me Da ;)
And thanks for the tiles tip! We’ll try that later this year!
I just find it odd, and somewhat upsetting, they used a clockface image used isn’t set at the ubiquitous ’10 to 2′.
But hey, that’s just me…
But it’s got three hands – when there is a second hand it is usually shown as above – with the hour, minute, and second hand equidistant. The exact time is irreverent.
Time IS irreverent in a way, if you think about it.
Well, 6:30 is the best time on a clock!
Hands down!
I thoroughly enjoyed that ;D
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