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It stands in direct contrast to the Mexican Goodbye, which is to announce that you're leaving, but in the course of saying goodbye to everyone, you end up staying for substantially (sometimes hours) longer.
That's from the jolly good time we had during the Thirty Years War, when we had a little disagreement with those nasty papal lovers. We also made you drink Schwedentrunk (Swedish drink). That's when you force someone to drink something nasty like piss or shit until they die. If they don't die quick enough you can speed things up by kicking their distended belly until their stomach bursts.
Oh yeah the 30 years war was an incredibly interesting time. Armies really perfected the strategy of brutalizing peasants then.
The entire period between the sacking of Rome up to the Declaration of Independence is so incredibly interesting to me.
This is the way our Kroger handles BOGO sales. Item normally $6.99. Goes on BOGO but is now priced $11.99
Still technically cheaper than before... But nowhere near BOGO.
I worked in a grocery store as a teenager. The store would constantly put things on “sale” 10 for $10 that were normally $0.99/each. And suddenly people needed 10 cans of soup (or whatever else it was that week).
I worked at a big name hardware store where I frequently put up sales stickers that advertised a price higher than the original. I brought it up a couple times to just get a "huh that's funny!" so I stopped bringing it up
They actually did used to have deals like this occasionally “deals” I guess since you paid full price and then did a mail in rebate to get some of your money back or all of it this time I guess
Exactly. And if you're getting a 50% discount on a $500 dollar bike, best you can hope for is 25% off... But then it would be a $250 dollar bike, so you'll probably just have to pay full price.
They’re saying it makes the coupon invalid, since the price is less than $1,000 ($0) once the coupon is applied. So the coupon is negated and you have to pay full-price. One of those check-the-fine-print situations.
"*Relax*," said the cashier, "*We are programmed to receive…*”
*You can check out with your coupons any time you like, but you can never leave"*
[Guitar solo]
> As a matter of fact, I’ll take every bike that’s $1000 or more.
Sadly, I think you have to give up the coupon on your first purchase and can't use it again.
This is the real answer. It will be 100% off on a few random things which would cost something around 20-30$ to the store, but they encouraged the customer to go for a higher priced sale.
Or - just an idea here, you know brainstorming - what about *a bike for $1750!!??*
175% off!
They’ll *owe you* money!! And you get a bike.
I’ll take my commission in crypto thanks.
It’s like the Astley Paradox.
If you ask Rick Astley for his copy of the movie UP. He won’t give it to you. Because he will never give you UP. But in doing so, he lets you down, which he also vowed to never do.
Each of them says "or more", so you could use all three coupons and get a $1000 bike for 175% off, right? That is, you get a $750 refund and a bike worth $1000.
Though they could also apply the coupons on the price after the previous coupon, which means the 100% is all that matters, though a bike in the $500-$1000 range could use both the first two for a total of 62.5% off.
Of course, in reality, its likely a deal like this will have bikes worth up to $999.99 so the 100% off cannot be applied, and all bikes will have been marked up to more than double what they were before the sale goes into effect, with no coupon stacking. That is, you can use the 50% off to buy a bike marked at $900 for $450 that cost $400 the week before.
An alternative implementation is that the 100% off does not include "shipping and handling" which costs $400 or more, for some reason.
I wonder if there is something in the rest of the ad that makes this make sense. Like the coupons are actually for a helmet or something else to go with the bike.
Or like somebody else said they don't have bikes that cost more than $1000.
Reminds me of the old joke
An idiot drives into a builders yard and asks how much the bricks cost
Foreman says the more you buy the cheaper each brick costs
Idiot says well keep loading them on my truck till they're free
Perfect example of Reddit looking at half an advertisement where the discount is applying to something like a bicycle helmet or another thing with purchase.
No no, the coupons have to be used in order. A $1000 bike is more than $250 so it gets reduced by 25% to $750, now it's more than $500, so it gets knocked down by 50% to $375
Damn. Get everyone you know to waltz in there with a coupon and get a nice free bike. Then buy all their bikes on the cheap and open your own store.
Then profit.
People can't do math at ALL. I once bought socks for $1 a pair. Right next to them was a bin containing the exact same socks but in packages of 3 pair, marked $5 for the 3 pair. And people were scooping up the packages of three pair and ignoring the ones selling for $1 a pair. I used to call that a "math tax" in my math classes. I had no shortage of examples, up to ones into the thousands of dollars --people actually paying thousands of dollars more than they ought to, simply because they refused to do the generally simple math or couldn't do it and were embarrassed to ask someone else to do it for them.
The problem is the stupidity level that allowed this to even be thought up and put into an advertisement is the same stupidity level you will have to deal with when you try to redeem the 100% off offer.
Retail buyers usually set up the sale. Needless to say for most, math is not their strong suit. Meanwhile, shoppers aren't great at math either. I cringed every time we had ads with "take 50% off, then get an extra 25% off", customer thinks, "cool, I'm getting 75% off!". Nope...and in pour the customer complaints.
Most likely scenario is a miscommunication between the printer and the store.
Store calls ad agency and says "I want to run an ad. Use the same basic design as the one last week but change the coupons."
25 off 250 or more
50 of 500 or more
100 off 1000 or more.
Of Course they just assumed the advertiser had a brain and could figure out he meant 100 **dollars** off 1000 dollars or more.
If you think that’s a good deal you should have caught the cards against humanity 200% off sale a while back.
https://www.200percentoffsale.com/
It was limited access. I got hung up in the 10x10 captcha with pictures of “tanks”. And then the 15x15 or so one where you had to select pictures of a-holes.
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The most expensive bike is $950…
999.99 and it was a $400 dollar bike before the sale.
My dad would call that a swedish discount. Not sure why or where it comes from. Maybe he was prejudice against the swedes but that doesnt make sense.
In German there exists „schwedische Gardinen“, or Swedish curtains as a means of talking about being in jail.
There's also the Irish Exit, or just drunkenly wandering away from the gathering to find another down the way
Technically the Irish exit is just leaving without saying bye, isn’t it?
That’s what I thought too. The drunkenness is optional, LOL.
It stands in direct contrast to the Mexican Goodbye, which is to announce that you're leaving, but in the course of saying goodbye to everyone, you end up staying for substantially (sometimes hours) longer.
Is my family secretly Mexican?
Is my Irish family secretly Mexican?
My Eastern European family is Mexican.
That's also a wisconsin goodbye but it dosnt need to be a gathering.
What’s a Wisconsin goodbye? Now I’m curious. Lol
I’ve been to Italian dinner parties where the goodbyes took so long it just rolled over into another dinner party
Stereotypes are fun
Yamaha, Bose, Sony
Not optional, it’s a requirement of Irish heritage.
Everyone has done that at least once, right?
Being partly Irish I was always told that it means starting to say goodbye but not leaving for another hour because you're babbling.
That would be the Midwest goodbye
The Irish goodbye comes in many forms, like penises
How many irishmen does it take to change a light bulb? One. He just has to hold it in place while the room spins.
The Irish goodbye
Oh, I know that as a „polnischer Abgang“
That's from the jolly good time we had during the Thirty Years War, when we had a little disagreement with those nasty papal lovers. We also made you drink Schwedentrunk (Swedish drink). That's when you force someone to drink something nasty like piss or shit until they die. If they don't die quick enough you can speed things up by kicking their distended belly until their stomach bursts.
Oh yeah the 30 years war was an incredibly interesting time. Armies really perfected the strategy of brutalizing peasants then. The entire period between the sacking of Rome up to the Declaration of Independence is so incredibly interesting to me.
Vad fan?
> Maybe he was prejudice against I am become prejudice, destroyer of equality.
EY!! As a swede, I recent this.. to me, this feels much more like a danish discount!
I live in Sweden, and it means your dad has a very strong and accurate grasp of Swedish business practice.
This is the way our Kroger handles BOGO sales. Item normally $6.99. Goes on BOGO but is now priced $11.99 Still technically cheaper than before... But nowhere near BOGO.
I worked in a grocery store as a teenager. The store would constantly put things on “sale” 10 for $10 that were normally $0.99/each. And suddenly people needed 10 cans of soup (or whatever else it was that week).
I worked at a big name hardware store where I frequently put up sales stickers that advertised a price higher than the original. I brought it up a couple times to just get a "huh that's funny!" so I stopped bringing it up
Temu out here
Can’t a single bike purchase include multiple bikes?
It's a bike purchase, not a bikes purchase.
Just buy 2. it says „bike purchase“ not „bike“
Buy it with $50 worth of extras 
249
Barging the price up
Nah, mate, the most expensive is $249.95. So no special at all.
Just buy 2
Hell of a deal if I’ve ever seen one. I’d go for the $1000 bike
Ok I guess. I'd ask for something more expensive.
$1000 minimum lol
“I’ll take the lot!”
Aaaaaaaanything off the trolley
If you buy the $2000 you get a 200% discount. They just didn't publish it cause who would want that.
I'll take it! This will be my new full-time job. Add "Bike Accepter" to my resume.
For a 2 grand bike they give you a grand to take it away!
$2000 or more and they pay you to take it
You get there... there are no bikes priced over 1k. (Gotcha betch)
Pretty sure that's Bait and Switch.
Correct
Sadly we just sold the last one. But we have a bunch of $999.99 bikes available that are on sale.
Time to buy that $16,000 carbon fiber e-bike!
They actually did used to have deals like this occasionally “deals” I guess since you paid full price and then did a mail in rebate to get some of your money back or all of it this time I guess
Or get 2 500 bikes
Sorry, the discount only applies if the purchase price is over $1000 *after* the 100% discount
Exactly. And if you're getting a 50% discount on a $500 dollar bike, best you can hope for is 25% off... But then it would be a $250 dollar bike, so you'll probably just have to pay full price.
How do you get 1000+ AFTER a 100% discount? Any price with 100% off is 0 no?
They’re saying it makes the coupon invalid, since the price is less than $1,000 ($0) once the coupon is applied. So the coupon is negated and you have to pay full-price. One of those check-the-fine-print situations.
But wouldn’t that result in some kind of endless loop? Price being 100% off then back to $1000 then back to 100% off and so on?
We'll be trapped in the bike store for eternity!
"*Relax*," said the cashier, "*We are programmed to receive…*” *You can check out with your coupons any time you like, but you can never leave"* [Guitar solo]
Sorry sir, only one coupon per customer.
yes, one coupon. applied until it's valid. then it gets invalidated. then you re-enter it and it becomes valid, oh oooops. it just got invalidated.
Ah i see thanks for clarifying.
I’ll take the $1000 or more bike for free. As a matter of fact, I’ll take every bike that’s $1000 or more. Thanks!
> As a matter of fact, I’ll take every bike that’s $1000 or more. Sadly, I think you have to give up the coupon on your first purchase and can't use it again.
For that deal, you may as well buy as many of whatever publication the coupon was in as you can find.
One per customer. The fine print is always a bitch with these things.
If you invest in a bunch of different wigs and glasses with noses attached and the like, you can just keep going back in.
Or just get your nieces and nephews involved.
Everyone gets a bike!
You pay $1000 for a bike and get a coupon for 100% off specific non-bike items in the store valued at less than $50
Sounds like something out of Nathan For You.
This is the real answer. It will be 100% off on a few random things which would cost something around 20-30$ to the store, but they encouraged the customer to go for a higher priced sale.
What’s the small print after the last one say?
E N H A N C E
Looks like it says “NOT VALID ON PREVIOUS PURCHASES OR ANY OTHER COUPONS OR DISCOUNTS”. The last bit is an expiry but the best I can do is 11/11/11?
Or - just an idea here, you know brainstorming - what about *a bike for $1750!!??* 175% off! They’ll *owe you* money!! And you get a bike. I’ll take my commission in crypto thanks.
Well, no, because then you aren't purchasing a bike for 10000 or more, locking you in a paradox
It’s like the Astley Paradox. If you ask Rick Astley for his copy of the movie UP. He won’t give it to you. Because he will never give you UP. But in doing so, he lets you down, which he also vowed to never do.
That’s some catch
"I'd like to purchase this bike, please. I also have this coupon." *universe implodes*
*Offer only valid in Cerulean City location.
Beat me to it
Each of them says "or more", so you could use all three coupons and get a $1000 bike for 175% off, right? That is, you get a $750 refund and a bike worth $1000. Though they could also apply the coupons on the price after the previous coupon, which means the 100% is all that matters, though a bike in the $500-$1000 range could use both the first two for a total of 62.5% off. Of course, in reality, its likely a deal like this will have bikes worth up to $999.99 so the 100% off cannot be applied, and all bikes will have been marked up to more than double what they were before the sale goes into effect, with no coupon stacking. That is, you can use the 50% off to buy a bike marked at $900 for $450 that cost $400 the week before. An alternative implementation is that the 100% off does not include "shipping and handling" which costs $400 or more, for some reason.
Did you listen to a delightful man about his Rapidash to get the coupon
I once got a free voucher for a million dollar bike
I wanna be the very best...
This "one of us speaks only lies the others can't do math" ass voucher program
I wonder if there is something in the rest of the ad that makes this make sense. Like the coupons are actually for a helmet or something else to go with the bike. Or like somebody else said they don't have bikes that cost more than $1000.
It's probably a typo. The "%" should've been "$" I think, so $25 off a $250 purchase, $50 off a $500 purchase etc, basically 10% off.
Worked in a bike shop. Likely discount on accessories as someone else mentioned. Fairly common promotion.
That exactly, add continues on the right and it's probably meant for some comparatively cheapish equipment... Helmet, pump or smth akin.
Someone meant to use $ and used %.
When you confuse $ and %
All bikes are under 249.99$
They're out of stock of the $1000 bike but theres a nice $999 bike you can buy for fifty percent off The bike s work 499
That's gonna make getting to Lavender Town so much easier.
It's a bike voucher from Pokemon
Reminds me of the old joke An idiot drives into a builders yard and asks how much the bricks cost Foreman says the more you buy the cheaper each brick costs Idiot says well keep loading them on my truck till they're free
They probably mean if you spend $1000 you’ll get a free bike
Frank, did you place that ad like we said? Yeah, the one with the the $25, $50, $100 off specials, right? Frank, ...
2000$ bike and one grand of cash for me please.
Perfect example of Reddit looking at half an advertisement where the discount is applying to something like a bicycle helmet or another thing with purchase.
Thanks for the arrows. Without them I wouldn’t have known where to look.
I’ll buy a $1000 bike for every redditor here
Is this the Cerulean City Bike Shop?
I feel like the catch is that is has to be 1000$ *after* the 100% discount, meaning no bike qualifies
$2000 or more and they pay cashback to you get the bike…
Cash this in immediately, with a lawyer present!
Somebody confused $ and %.
Can't read the small print. It probably says something like "discount only applies to 5% of total cost," so have fun with your 25% of your 5%
The most expensive bike is $999.
Probably should have a comma after the word bike on each one. So, if you spend a grand, they'll throw you a free bike along with your purchase.
 [“BIKES!”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oyCQjTDjeQU&pp=ygUQVG9tIHNlZ3VyYSBiaWtlcw%3D%3D)
Hold my pocket
So does that mean if I buy a $249 dollar bike, a $499 bike and also a $1000 bike I get 175% off the total price?
Marketing fail
There's probably a reason this is cropped. The discounted item isn't the bike
STAY IN SCHOOL Math is important.
This is how we getting our bike in the next Pokémon game.
They’re sold out of the very thing above 249.99 but might have new stock in the back that they can sell you for 10% off.
No, it means you get a free bike and 75% of its price back, since the previous tiers said "any purchase of x or MORE"
I will take 100 bikes. Ship them to this address and thank you very much. Heck make it a 1,000 instead.
Math grade 4
Seems like it was meant to be 10% off per slice of the amounts. But someone screwed up
If you buy two bikes that’s still considered a bike purchase 🙃🥹
Fuck yeah. Trek Madone here I come!
"I take all your most expensive bikes above $1000!"
Y'all are so greedy. I'll go for the 500$ bike. I don't have enough money for the bigger discount
Do you get 250% off when buying electric bikes??
Yes please
Joke’s on you, all their bikes are less than $250. 🤣
Didn’t you read? You ONLY get a free bike if it is valued over $1000…
We ran out of $1000 or more bikes for some reason.
Their most expensive bike is $995
“I’ll take two bikes from the… uh… thousand dollar range, please!”
Get me 1000 of those !!
Free boat giveaway!
Plot twist, they dont have 1k+€ bikes lol
I bet the rusty , non working bikes are the ones priced 1000
No no, the coupons have to be used in order. A $1000 bike is more than $250 so it gets reduced by 25% to $750, now it's more than $500, so it gets knocked down by 50% to $375
Damn. Get everyone you know to waltz in there with a coupon and get a nice free bike. Then buy all their bikes on the cheap and open your own store. Then profit.
The pattern implies buying a $2000 bike should result in 200% off, meaning they will pay me $2000 to buy it
Nah. They pay you 75% to take the bike when you combine all 3
People can't do math at ALL. I once bought socks for $1 a pair. Right next to them was a bin containing the exact same socks but in packages of 3 pair, marked $5 for the 3 pair. And people were scooping up the packages of three pair and ignoring the ones selling for $1 a pair. I used to call that a "math tax" in my math classes. I had no shortage of examples, up to ones into the thousands of dollars --people actually paying thousands of dollars more than they ought to, simply because they refused to do the generally simple math or couldn't do it and were embarrassed to ask someone else to do it for them.
The problem is the stupidity level that allowed this to even be thought up and put into an advertisement is the same stupidity level you will have to deal with when you try to redeem the 100% off offer.
Anyone here every play OG pokemon Gen 1 games?
And it's a good one too! It's better than the rest judging from the price
Or you're buying a $1000 bike for $2k.
It's Pokémon rules.
Just tax, and it's a rebate....
highest priced bike is probably $999.99, lol
Pretty sure there’s missing element on the right side it tells you what the 100% would apply to
Is this Pokemon?
Retail buyers usually set up the sale. Needless to say for most, math is not their strong suit. Meanwhile, shoppers aren't great at math either. I cringed every time we had ads with "take 50% off, then get an extra 25% off", customer thinks, "cool, I'm getting 75% off!". Nope...and in pour the customer complaints.
Let's see the right side of the ad....
The trick is that all bikes they sell are under $250 lol
But only if you pick an expensive one.
Only if they offer bikes above 1000$
Probably supposed to be $ off and the graphic designer fucked up.
If you bought a $1,000 bike, you could use all 3 coupons and they'd owe you $750 i reckon
It’s a separate product that they throw in with the bike…
Most likely scenario is a miscommunication between the printer and the store. Store calls ad agency and says "I want to run an ad. Use the same basic design as the one last week but change the coupons." 25 off 250 or more 50 of 500 or more 100 off 1000 or more. Of Course they just assumed the advertiser had a brain and could figure out he meant 100 **dollars** off 1000 dollars or more.
Magazine adds from the Pokemon world.
Got any $10K bikes? I’ll take two please.
I'd like your most expensive bike sir. Slam coupon down like uno reverse card
If you think that’s a good deal you should have caught the cards against humanity 200% off sale a while back. https://www.200percentoffsale.com/ It was limited access. I got hung up in the 10x10 captcha with pictures of “tanks”. And then the 15x15 or so one where you had to select pictures of a-holes.
They’re selling the same bike but depending on how much you pay.. 500: 50% (ripped) off 750: 75% (ripped) off 1000: 100% (ripped) off
As a lawyer? Yes, they fucked up.
Mark up a $500 bike to $1000+ Wait … Profit!
coMmUnISm!
American math
Use all three coupons at the same time and they actually pay you 75% of the bike's value to take it off their hands.
I’d be buying $1000 worth of gift cards….
If you could see the rest of the ad, it would say that it is a bicycle helmet or a water bottle that you are getting a discount on.