{"id":9924,"date":"2013-10-20T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2013-10-20T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T21:26:58","slug":"the-secret-discounts-of-luxury-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-secret-discounts-of-luxury-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Discounts Of Luxury Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/102013_2123_TheSecretDi1.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Ellwood showed how customers can take advantage of secret discounts that luxury stores offer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stores that sell luxury products want to get rid of old inventory like any other store. But they don&#8217;t want to have traditional sales as they&#8217;re afraid it&#8217;ll affect their brand.<\/li>\n<li>Instead they&#8217;ve come up with creative ways to offer secret discounts.<\/li>\n<li>Many stores only inform their most loyal customers about clandestine sales. This way the mass public doesn&#8217;t know that the store sometimes has low-priced products, while loyal customers are rewarded for their business.<\/li>\n<li>To join the list of people who are informed of the sales, one merely needs to identify a specific salesperson, visit them regularly, buy a couple items at full price, and then exchange business cards.<\/li>\n<li>Others have VIP membership programs that offer substantial discounts to the top 1,000 highest spending customers \u2013 giving them a reason to spend even more.<\/li>\n<li>Sales representatives sometimes have the leeway to offer discounts of up to 10%. You&#8217;ll have to work to get it though since representatives get to keep the 10% if the customer isn&#8217;t offered it.<\/li>\n<li>Offering to pay in cash can lead to significant savings.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing former employees of the store can also help. One chain gives those who have worked for the company for over a decade a lifetime discount.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how to find the furtive discounts, other insider tips, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/fashion\/2013\/10\/roger_vivier_shoes_on_sale_if_you_know_the_right_person_discount_luxury.single.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/fashion\/2013\/10\/roger_vivier_shoes_on_sale_if_you_know_the_right_person_discount_luxury.single.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Ellwood showed how customers can take advantage of secret discounts that luxury stores offer: Stores that sell luxury products want to get rid of old inventory like any other store. But they don&#8217;t want to have traditional sales as they&#8217;re afraid it&#8217;ll affect their brand. Instead they&#8217;ve come up with creative ways to offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/102013_2123_TheSecretDi1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9927,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}