What do you mean by Original Price / RRP ?
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In the box to put information when posting a deal it says original price/RRP.
Let us say a Playstation 4 deal.
The PS4 launched at £349.99. That was over 3 years ago.
The PS4 has been lowered with time and now has an RRP of £249.99.
Which do you put in the box ? The £249.99 RRP that it is today right ? This then works out how much a customer will save from the RRP today in a percentage ? Not a launch price that no longer applies so isn't a saving ?
It'd be great if you guys could clear this question up and by Original Price and RRP. To be fair, both cannot be had under the same box as the two prices differ.
Thanks.
They don't differ. Original price means the price before the discount you are posting. Original price £249.99. Discounted (deal) price £179.99. RRP and Original Price mean the same thing. The price the item was before the discount.
Dread That's debatable.
Let's take the PS4 for example, the Original Price was £349.99 while the current-RRP is £249.99 so there is some confusion between the two terms that has popped up recently.
Rockman The launch price was £349.99. You have to look at the context of what information is being asked for and why. There would be absolutely no reason to put what an item was being sold for 3, 10, 50, 100 years ago. The reason the information is being asked for is to show and work out a percentage of how much somebody is saving compared to paying full price. At that time not some time in the past when an item was more expensive. The saving percentage would be a lie. The discounted price is the new price. The existing RRP is the original price.
I agree. The Original Price and the RRP differ. There’s no easy answer to this.
Here’s an example of some current prices for Watch Dogs 2 – a PlayStation 4 game, that helps illustrate the problem.
Smyths Toys: Price Now: £24.99 Was Price: £41.99 Discount: 40% . Discount to the £49.99 RRP: 50%
Game: Price Now: £27.99 Was Price: £34.99 Discount: 20% Discount to the £49.99 RRP: 44%
Boomerang: Price Now: £44.89 RRP: £49.99 Discount: 10% Discount to the £49.99 RRP: 10%
Of these three Sellers what’s particularly noticeable is that only Boomerang quotes the RRP. And that Game’s discount at only 20% (against their previous 'Was Price') doesn’t look very attractive, but is actually 44% off the RRP which is pretty good.
- Many sellers often don’t quote either the ‘Was Price’ or the ‘RRP’
- Some sellers only quote their previous price (their ‘Was Price’)
- Some sellers only quote the RRP
- Some sellers have a ‘Was Price’ that is higher than the RRP
- Sometimes it is hard to find the RRP listed anywhere.
- Most LD Dealhunters probably don’t have the time or the inclination (or perhaps the know-how) to search for and find the RRP if it is not listed by the Seller, and will prefer to simply use the Seller’s quoted ‘Was Price’ in their Deal post.
When I post PS4 Games on LatestDeals I try to use the RRP if I can find it, because video games is such a competitive, price led market. Even then, some game retailers sometimes quote different RRPs to others!
In my view the RRP is the best 'before' price to use if possible, as it is the only price that is ‘fixed’ against which comparisons can be made. BUT it’s impractical for dealhunters to find out the RRP all the time, and in any case RRP has been pretty meaningless in the UK for years. Few products are ever sold at the RRP, and these days the RRP is often inflated (especially in fashion, perfume, and electricals) to allow retailers to offer a seemingly more attractice discount to the consumer!
So whilst a Deal with an Offer Price shown with a discount relating to the ‘Was Price’ could be perceived as misleading (if the ‘Was Price’ is anything other than RRP) I believe most UK consumers are savvy enough not to take too much notice of Was Price's , RRPs or Discounts, and ultimately will only pay a price that they are happy to pay.
All this means that the price that the customer actually pays (including delivery) becomes important, but that too is far from perfect. Not least because many (probably most) UK online retailers now charge for delivery (e.g. £3.95) and only offer free delivery on orders over a certain minimum order value (e.g. £20). Where a product costs less than the minimum order value many customers will choose to add one or more other products to their online shopping basket in order to avoid the delivery charge. This means posting a Deal with the delivery price included would be very misleading for many consumers (and as there are now a multitude of different Seller delivery options it's certainly not practical to list them all on every Deal post).
The bottom line? I think LD should leave the Original Price / RRP box as is, and Dealhunters should use the RRP in preference to the 'Was Price' , but only if/when they can find the RRP easily.
Johnny I don't think you understand the question though. Rockman is saying to use a price nobody is using or charging anymore. Not the price before discount. Not taken from the site that the deal is from. Not even RRP. The original price is just the price before the discounted price you are posting. That can differ sure. Like it could be lower than RRP and just a price that retailer was charging before the discount. It could be the RRP of the item at the time. It could never be the RRP of something from years ago nobody uses anymore. For example Cadbury's have been around for over 100 years but the original price is not going to be 2d. It is either going to be today's RRP or the price that retailer was charging before the discount. He knows today's RRP for a PS4 is £249.99. He knows companies were charging this before the discount. But he says to use the RRP price when the PS4 launched over 3 years ago of £349.99 that has not applied anywhere for quite some time. He is taking original price to mean launch price. For example most TV's when launched and new technology are originally over £20,000 but you don't put that as the original price. You put today prices.
Johnny Yeah that's it. What Rockman is saying is that "Original Price" means launch price no matter if the RRP has been changed in the last 5,10,50 or 100 years. Putting the original price as £349.99 is very misleading and a lie as to how much people are saving by using the deal. It wasn't Rockmans deal but the deal was saying you were saving £170 by buying a PS4 at £180. I agree it's hard to find, or work out RRP on many things. I personally feel the original/RRP box will put many off posting and is prone to a large number of errors and misleading figures. I ignore it on a lot of posts and leave it blank especially bundle deals.
Johnny He has stated he does. Here and in the thread for the PS4 deal. It is why this question is being asked by us.
https://www.latestdeals.co.uk/deals/sony-playstation-4-500gb-console-black-save-170-zavvi
So why did you want BestOffer to change the RRP to £349.99 ? What was all that conversation about in the PS4 thread ? I said the same thing Johnny did (it should be £249.99 existing RRP/Original Price). You disagreed and said it should be (£349.99 old RRP/Launch Price that no longer exists).
You said:
> "The RRP is £349.99 not £249.99"
> "That is incorrect, the information is absolutely correct.
The Launch/Original Price was £349.99 and that falls under what LD requires. If LD wanted the current-RRP then that's different"
So you now agree the box for RRP/Original price should have had £249.99 entered and that the box means todays RRP and original price on the website that day before the discounted price posted ? Not the £349.99 price that the product launched at years ago ? 
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