Re: FN-FORUM: [OT] percentages and reductions

date posted 15th August 2003 13:53

I think you are on a losing battle since it says that the commission is
based on the amount and the discount is on the commission. So therefore
there is no misleading statement, the same thing could be said of the
computer if they said 10% off and then they said they would give you 10% of
the asking price i.e. an computer for 1000 would have an asking price of 900
and your cost would be 810 not 800.

Darren Compton

I have no more yesterdays. As Time Took them away. I may not have tomorrow.
But I have Today.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Niina Talikka" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:49 AM
Subject: FN-FORUM: [OT] percentages and reductions


>
> I'm having a bit of a battle with a tax refund company (yeah i know i
> should have done it myself but i thought i'd save myself some time and
> effort to pay them a little bit of money with the fact that they claimed
> they could sort it out in 4-6 weeks).
>
> I wrote them a nice long letter yesterday documenting all their
> miscommunications and lack of etc. to date and the director called me up
> this morning to try and smooth things over. He offered to drop the
> commission rate from for me (which I'm still not enthused about, I want to
> take over the refund process myself).
>
> Their original documents state: "... will charge a commission of 18%...
You
> will receive 10% off this commission fee as an online customer."
>
> Silly me took that to mean the commission would drop to 8%. What he said
> on the phone was that it's just a 10% reduction of the 18% so it would
have
> been 16.2% and related it to goodness knows what as I was getting a bit
> annoyed by then. I raised the fact that it's misleading advertising and
he
> said I could have the commission set at 10% (which I'm still not happy
with!)
>
>
> So... any body know of any advertising regulations or standards which mean
> that these sorts of things should be clarified? Or am I without a leg to

> stand on because I've taken it the wrong way?
>
>
> If you see a computer for sale and they say the price is already reduced
by
> 25% and you will get a further 5% discount, that means you get 30% off the
> original price, doesn't it? Maybe it's different when you're starting
with
> a percentage to begin with.
>
>
> Any thoughts appreciated on or off list, thanks.
> Niina
> www.ktobe.com
>
>
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