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Yes. This exact issue with bedding companies has lead to several prosecutions. For example, permanently making up fake prices just to advertise a discount: - https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/snooze-admits-two-pric... - https://www.accc.gov.au/public-registers/undertakings-regist...

What is it with bedding companies and criminal miss representation of prices?



From personal experience this is true for Germany also, since decades.

It's always SALE! SALE! SALE! Everything must go! %! %! %! or something similar.

The same was true for carpets for a time, but they seem to have fallen out of fashion, at least I don't see it that often anymore.

But this is a general thing in every downtown or shopping centre across all sectors. And similar for groceries. I enter all of these with one big default deny and fuck off mentality switched on.




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