Ordinary Gweilo

Mannings are currently advertising "25% off everything*", but if this were true their shops would be overrun with bargain-hunters.  The reality is that this offer is so limited as to be meaningless.

Firstly they have a long list of brands and product types that are excluded.  Then they say that it does not apply to any products that are already on offer – which means that all they have to do is reduce the price from $10.00 to $9.90 to avoid giving 25% off. 

So far, so bad, but surely there must be some products with 25% off?   After buying about 8 items yesterday, and discovering that not even one of them qualified for this offer (no, not even the items that didn’t appear on their list of excluded categories or brands and which were sold at full price), I’m beginning to wonder.  Even their shop managers don’t seem to be able to explain why some of the items were not included in this offer. I hope it isn’t too inconvenient for them when people ask for their money back because they feel they have been tricked.

Bunch of weasels.