Hello everyone. Well now uni has finished and I've left my job, I thought I'd better start writing a...
Hello everyone. Well now uni has finished and I've left my job, I thought I'd better start writing again. Only hope I'm still good at it.
Member since:12.01.2001
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For those of us who have been out in the sales this year you will have noticed an annoying marketing scheme that Top Man have imployed to get you into buying their clothes (and this is only one of my negative points). if you have visited this store in january you will notice that they put big green (or other various colours) labels on the coat hanger saying £10 or £5- this usually gets me interested in what they have to offer especially trousers (which i will come on to later). On trying to purchase an item of clothing you find that the clothes are actually priced more than the tag informs you and when inquiring why the green tag says otherwise the answer is usually 'Most people swap the tags to get lower prices.' On inspection, however, all of the same item of clothing on their rack, I informed them, had the same green price tag on them and unless someone was into bulk buying this is not someone swapping tags about. In the end I managed to get the clothing for the price stated on the green tag. this is not the only isolated insident as my girlfriend has had the same problem in Top Shop and some of my friends have as well noticed this tedency for Top Man to put these prices on just to attract the customers. i beleive this to be false advertising and very unfair.
That was a specific point, but in general Top Man can supply good quality but heavily priced items. The trousers, as afor mentioned, can be heavily priced and even sale price will not bring them down more than £3-5. this much for a pair of trousers that seems to be made of a plastic material is rediculous. today I bought a pair of piere Cardin and LeeCooper trousers for £14 each- I would expect these to be sold at over £30 in Top Man or any of the designer menswear stores.
Another negative is their change of policy towards the use of sainsbury's vouchers in their stores. The old policy of allowing £5 off any bought product with the 500 point voucher has been completely changed. The new policy is that you have to spend £20 or more to get the money off. i feel this is a poor change and that the store just want the consumer to spend more money without getting the benefits from their loyalty to other stores.
A positive note though is that their range of shirts is top quality and can be fairly priced especially in sales, but i feel this is the only reason i would frequent this shop. Poor bargins, poor Sale.
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Advantages: The Clothes are marvellous, as are the shoes, oh and the... I could go on forever Disadvantages: The only disadvantage is the price of the shirts! Not all the prices, but just the shirts!
Mattroberts 07.03.2003 (10.10.2003)
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Advantages: The Clothes are marvellous, as are the shoes, oh and the... I could go on forever Disadvantages: The only disadvantage is the price of the shirts! Not all the prices, but just the shirts!
Mattroberts 07.03.2003 (10.10.2003)
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