Misleading Promotion resulting in higher than normal prices

Posted Wed July 11, 2012 10:48 pm, by Marc B. written to Kohl's Department Stores

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Three weeks ago, I bought my son a pair of men's Levi's 514s, which were priced at $39. This was the normal, everyday Kohl's price to which I applied the Kohl's card 15% discount. Today, I went to Kohl's to buy myself the same Levi's 514 jeans. The sign announced a buy 1 at original price get 1 at 1/2 off sale. When I went to the register, the first pair rang up at $58 and the second pair was $29, which comes to an average of close to $44 per pair. This is more than your everyday price. What happened to the sale? It is misleading to advertise a promotion that results in a higher cost than the regular price. You cost me gas and time of making the trip to Kohl's for the jeans.

Kohl's should clean up it's promotions practice and, if you're going to offer a sale, make it a real sale off your regular pricing and not the much higher pricing that you never charge in the store except when running misleading promotions. Also, to make up for my wasted time and expense of going to the store, you should send me a 30% off coupon like I sometimes get in the mail as well as $10 Kohl's cash. And then I should be allowed to use it to purchase the Levi's I wanted at the less expensive price and not your false sale price.

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I agree by Jennifer S Posted Thu July 12, 2012 @ 5:42 PM They are pretty deceptive. Their low prices aren't low at all. My pet peeve is when they jack up the price and advertise the item "on sale" at the actual retail price. For example, the retail price of a pillow pet was $19.99. I saw ad advertising it on sale for $19.99 retail price $29.99, same thing with the Kuerig brewers. Retail price is $179, the ad said the retai price was $229 and it was on sale for $179. Reply Re: Misleading Promotion resulting in higher than normal prices by PepperElf Posted Thu July 12, 2012 @ 4:38 PM be careful what you wish for though. Cos ... they could just make the higher price the "regular" one. That would technically answer your complaint. =) Reply Re: Misleading Promotion resulting in higher than normal prices by McJohn Posted Thu July 12, 2012 @ 9:21 AM Thats pretty standard for alot of places. If you ask they will tell you that is the normal price and the price you see everyday is the discounted price. Supermarkets do the same thing, most days ballpark franks are 3.99 a package, buy 1 get 1 days they are $5.36ea Reply