This is a form of trading that should be closely scrutinised. I do not believe that a business can be genuinely on sale perpetually and return a profit.

KATHMANDU - I agree with Tim about Kathmandu.
Would love to say what I really think about their model but I think the consumers are slowly figuring it out !!!!

About time . . . Furniture Galore have been doing this for years!!!

Kathmandu is the master of this practice.

"Bait advertising" as it is called is rife especially with some well-known retailers while fake "was-now" ticketing is an established ticketing procedure in a retail chain with a very vocal owner.

My son-in-law was caught in the same way by purchasing an item from Harvey Norman last year. When he sped over to the store, he was greeted with the following . . . "that item has just sold out, but if you pay now, we'll give you a bigger and better model - just be prepared to wait a few weeks." He got the item after a few weeks (once the order to the overseas supplier had been processed and received back on Australian soil). Moving forward? He's now shopping online and prefers it by far!

Perhaps they should look at Victoria Basement's wild claims especially when masterchef is on tv.

I visited a store to purchase a catalogue item to be told that it would be available in about 12 weeks. I questioned the salesperson as to why this was the case and why it was in the catalogue if it was not in the country for another 12 weeks. They declined to comment. The impression I got was that they were taking orders from customers before hand and then placing the order with the manufacturer in China, but I have no proof of this. So when I read the above article, I was not surprised that this retailer was in breech of the ACCC. My experience only pushes the boundaries of very bad customer service, while the article above shows that this retailer is rather deceitful.