50% off all merchandise!
It turns out that the recession isn’t necessarily the boon that those looking to upgrade their home entertainment options thought it might be.
Those looking for once-in-a-lifetime deals at liquidation sales aren’t getting the bargains the stores want them to believe they are, says Jason Fitzpatrick at lifehacker. In short: Those “50% off” signs are misleading at best and flat out deception at worst.
I suspected this was the case myself recently, as I joined the other vultures picking over the corpse of the local Circuit City, looking for a blockbuster deal on a new HDTV.
Honestly, I really can’t afford an HDTV right now even at a deep discount, nor is their room in my living room for a huge TV anyway. Having read Fitzpatrick’s piece, however, I’m even more relieved that I didn’t pull the trigger on an ill-advised, post-Christmas purchase.
