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

date posted 15th August 2003 22:52


Rather, NI went up by one percentage point, and in so doing
went up by apx 10%.....

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>
> Er no, 10% off this fee means 10% of the fee is deducted.
>
> But then NI has gone up by one 1% which is actually 10% or so of what it
> was...
>
> So an example is in order.
>
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> From: "Niina Talikka" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:48 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
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> >
> >
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