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Easons books

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    #2
    sandin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭sandin


    Easons listed it at full price and probably paid the publisher full price.

    It bombed cos it was crap (as you say) Publisher left with loads of stock and gets rid at a special offer price to heatons.

    Heatons flog it at a low price to move it quickly.

    Its a BASIC retail situation and not a rip-off.

    You cannot expect Easons to be checking the price of every book it sells in every other retail outlet just to please a few oddballs who think every shop should sell everything at the exact same price and for discounts to be identical at every minute of the day.

    Ridiculous.


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    justforgroups
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭justforgroups


    sandin wrote: »
    You cannot expect Easons to be checking the price of every book it sells in every other retail outlet
    Why not? They are a BOOKshop after all. It should be their business to know, especially considering they lost €5.3 million in 2012, €4.4 million in 2011, €10.1 million in 2010, and €21.1 million in 2009... :eek:


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    Pablo Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭Pablo Sanchez


    justforgroups wrote: »
    Why not? They are a BOOKshop after all. It should be their business to know, especially considering they lost €5.3 million in 2012, €4.4 million in 2011, €10.1 million in 2010, and €21.1 million in 2009... :eek:

    They're not going to get back into profitability by selling books at a loss.


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    sandin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,594 ✭✭✭sandin


    justforgroups wrote: »
    Why not? They are a BOOKshop after all. It should be their business to know, especially considering they lost €5.3 million in 2012, €4.4 million in 2011, €10.1 million in 2010, and €21.1 million in 2009... :eek:

    They made a trading profit in 2012, 2011, 2010, and asmall loss in 2009.

    The losses were on exceptional items such as write down on property valuations and redundancy costs.

    It is not their bsuiness to knwo what every other store sells every single book for - this is an absolute impossibility with tens of thousands of books and prices changing daily.

    Maybe your employer should only pay you what the lowest paid person doing your job in any other company is being paid??


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,381 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    justforgroups wrote: »
    The book itself is crap :-P
    Yeah, by the sounds of things it didn't even cover the basics...


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