Since the June, the major electric companies have been competing to launch low-cost promotional activities. College students Wang want to take this opportunity to buy a mobile phone, but found that the promotion, the price, instead of falling, but rose.
"18th 0 Point sales start, 17th night 11 o'clock more merchants to revise price increases, this is not obvious fool consumers?" 18th morning, Shandong University students Xiao Wang said his online shopping experience.
On the June 13, in order to buy a father's Day gift for his father, Xiao Wang bought a Lenovo a390t smartphone on the list of three digital official flagship stores in the Cat Mall.
"is a contract machine, the price is relatively cheap, at that time spent 348 yuan, feel very cost-effective." "Xiao Wang said that when the cell phone was taken, she found that everything was good and father liked it."
"There's a relative's birthday this month, and I'm thinking of taking advantage of the June 18 cat 618 year big promotion, and buying a similar phone as a gift to a relative." Xiao Wang said she thought it would be cheaper to catch up with the big promotion in the middle of the year, but did not expect her to open the Cat home page in the morning of 18th, to find the three-way digital official flagship store page under the phone, found that prices, instead of falling, but increased.
"The same brand of the same model, 13th to sell 348 yuan, to the year of the big promotion into 385 yuan, but more expensive." Xiao Wang immediately asked customer service online, asking why the promotion price. Customer service replied that the price of digital products is floating, but this argument obviously can not let Xiao Wang satisfied.
"The price of electronic products is going to float, but in my account, the editing time for this product is June 17 23:49, which is obviously to raise prices before the promotion, so the promotion is not to fool consumers?"
Customer service staff said they have concessions, has been marked on the homepage, the reporter opened the cat page, there is a "cumulative full 5000 yuan to 400 yuan, the cumulative 2000 yuan back to 150 yuan" promotional offers.
For example, the mobile phone mentioned above, to enjoy the 5000 yuan return to 400 yuan discount, she must buy 12.98 mobile phone, compared to the price before, she spent more than 480.26 (12.98x37) yuan, minus the return of 400 yuan, she still want to spend 80.26 yuan.
"It's called a big promotion. Xiao Wang said she had given up the idea of buying the phone again while promoting it.