I still hate the Chancellor
Dec. 2nd, 2008 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
supertinksso this whole VAT cut issue. Not only is it still causing me mountains of hassle at work, but I really am starting to get annoyed with it from a consumer point of view. How is it supposed to encourage me to shop?
I bought fidget a new collar yesterday, as he lost his purple one (the new one is an incredibly cutesy pale baby blue - icky, but it was that or baby pink!). It was £2.99 on the shelf. "Fair enough" says I, and buys it. At the till, I get my VAT discount. A whole 7p. Oooooh.
And today, I bought a skirt from Next (I have a thing about skirts right now, I need more of them! probably because they always fit better than trousers). Label says £30. Goes through the till, it actually costs me £29.36. A saving of a whole 64p. Makes no difference to my brain when it comes to rationalising the cost, because if the label had said £29.36, my brain would have just gone "ok, its £30" and carried on from there.
So what is the point????
I bought fidget a new collar yesterday, as he lost his purple one (the new one is an incredibly cutesy pale baby blue - icky, but it was that or baby pink!). It was £2.99 on the shelf. "Fair enough" says I, and buys it. At the till, I get my VAT discount. A whole 7p. Oooooh.
And today, I bought a skirt from Next (I have a thing about skirts right now, I need more of them! probably because they always fit better than trousers). Label says £30. Goes through the till, it actually costs me £29.36. A saving of a whole 64p. Makes no difference to my brain when it comes to rationalising the cost, because if the label had said £29.36, my brain would have just gone "ok, its £30" and carried on from there.
So what is the point????
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Date: 2008-12-02 03:27 pm (UTC)That 2.13% saving is not going to get me out spending more money. Yes, fine, at work it's saving us something like £1,200. On our £50k rent.
It's all perspective. A £500 TV you'd save something like £8. And of course, that's the difference between buying a purchase of that size or not. Right? Er...
(Also, skirts are awesome. Next have/had some really funky tartan ones that I liked a lot, and I may treat myself now that my car service and MOT cost less than planned!)
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Date: 2008-12-02 03:42 pm (UTC)the skirt I am wearing today is the matching green one (just the knee length variety).
Next have some great stuff in at the moment!