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Some Rutar price tags are full of conflicting information.
Here’s a tip for Austrian retailer Rutar: Invest in some permanent markers. You know the black ones? The ones you can use to cover up the original price of something you’ve marked up? Those.
We bought a mosquito net there yesterday (don’t ask) and the price tag on the outside said €16.99. According to the tag (see above) it had been marked down from €19.99, meaning a 15% discount. Fine and dandy. But as soon as we got home and opened it we discovered the original price tag packed inside and lo it was €12. In other words: it was actually a 30% mark-up disguised as a discount.
I’m not saying I’m shocked or anything. I just expect companies to at least keep up appearances. I mean come on. I feel stupid enough buying something crazy like a mosquito net — don’t make me feel even dumber by letting me discover just how much I’ve just been fleeced.
Like I said: A simple black marker would be enough to redact the €12 and make it the perfect crime. Brazenly letting me see it — I don’t know. It’s like Jack the Ripper sending his victim’s kidneys to Scotland Yard. It’s just pointless taunting.
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I’m sorry, I have to ask:
mosquito net?
Pointless taunting, agreed. But it makes them feel just as good as it made Saucy Jack sending those kidneys…
Well, after the day I saw in Baumax a zinc rod for sat. antenna for 60 € (4€ real value in any hardware shop, including benefits+DDV), I believe anything.
I wonder what’s the price of the net in the Austrian RUTAR?
And real question… mosquito net?
-Don’t start what u don’t want to finish ;)-
Rutar stinks. My friends order living room furniture back in October 2006. They have payed half price (several 1000 €) in advance and were told that they will get the furniture in December. Nope. Not in December, nor in January, February and March. Their latest promise was that they’ll deliver it this week (we’ll see about that). I have a feeling that some Austrian companies came here to milk poor Balkan cows. Slovenia is ideal for them, as customers are patient enough that manufacturers don’t have to keep their promises, yet they still have the money to pay for the merchandise.
A. Medved: Sorry. It’s destined to be an unsolved mystery. Just like the Ripper murders.
ARF: Your comment almost made me break a kidney laughing. I love the image of them perversely enjoying it.
Also: I was curious what Slovenes called him and it seems that it’s Jack RazparaÄ?, which sounds surprisingly bad-ass. I thought (actually, I was hoping) it would be something funny like Janez, mojster za razparanost.
This just proves that Balkan mentality cannot be acquired. You either have it or you don’t. It’s like asking Harvey Keitel to play Santa Claus… In the Balkans the company would actually show you the original 12€ price tag and then convince you that they’re selling it at a loss, enticing your feeling of guilt, making you pay a couple of euros extra
But honestly… A mosquito net? Are you moving to Ljubljana?
A. Medved - about the mosquito net… just watch movie “The meaning of life” and you will (just before the middle of the film) find an answer
Anyway… i was last week browsing in Esprit (City park LJ). Funny, you get there also “two” prices in EUR… one is on the list with all other currencies, and the higher “slovene” is on a separate paper… nice touch, Esprit… Well, if nothing else, they should just tear away the original prices…
Jack RazparaÄ? was a pussy… I’m sure Metod Trobec, notorious serial killer from Dolenjska deserves at least a trilogy… Something like “Burn Baby Burn”
the thing that matty writes about prices is so true. I’ve been to a few clothes store that has prices for several countries on one tag and almost always, slovenia is more expensive than austria and germany.
On the subject of rutar, I kinda wish that the plans for Ikea in postojna would happen. that would be all good for me.
gandalf: Postojna too? I’ve heard rumors that Ikea will build in Maribor or Ljubljana. And this despite the fact that you don’t hear German spoken in the Ikea in Graz because it’s already been overrun by Slovenes and Croats. (Is it the same for the one in Klagenfurt?)
MM: Yep, I confirm Klagenfurt is also overrun
-didn’t know there was Ikea there as well-
One rumour has it that Ikea might be persuaded to build Ljubljana footbal stadium in exchange for a huge store in the capital. I guess the seats in the stadium would then be awfully nice
As far as I know, they were looking in to building it in PO, to cover istria, rijeka, trst and of course slovenia. I don’t know the details, but I do know that whichever slovenian biznisman is first to jump on the Ikeawagon will most likely become rich of it..
and also, Pengovsky, funny joke there. I’m givin you the virtual drumroll..
Just hope you don’t have to mount the seat yourself…
@Disablez: Hahaha, good one!!!
while Michael is still thinking, how to wrap kidneys of shop-assistants in Mosquito nets, Ljubljana hooligans are already preparing for the stadium…
I heard the phrase “Austrian School” here . I’m not sure if that is what it’s supposed to be
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Yeah the Slovenians aren’t like the Bosnians, the Serbs or the Croats who if they have the money, would 1. haggle, 2. if they didn’t get the goods might blow up the store or kidnap the boss and sell him to a brothel in Shanghai.
And this really cracked me up, I decided to Google that guy Trobec:
It’s funny. People send mail, and in the text they claim to be someone else, and don’t figure out that there’s a reply address. I guess it goes along with typing in all caps:
From: Kastelic Andrej
Subject: RE MY NO COCK
MY NAME IS METOD TROBEC I AM IN THE PREASON RIGHT NOW BECAUCE SCREWING AND KILLING FEW PERSONS .I HAVE TO FINISH BECAUSE THEY CAME FOR ME.I HAD A CHANCE TO MAIL CAUSE I AM AT THE PREASONS HOSPITAL . I CUT OFF MY DICK THE OTHER DAY. I LIKE IT.
VECNO Z VAMI METOD