Sale Ends Tomorrow Morning

javascript

[nicebloke]

Someone just asked me to add this to their Ecom site - a javascript which just adds the following day to the end of the sentence.

ie: Sale Ends Tomorrow Morning Thursday 14th January.

What do you think of this?

[EliteWeb]

A popup with graphx may do better than a dialog box if that was the angle you were going with. But in all fairness its good to know when a sale ends :) if it really ends then of course!

[nicebloke]

>if it really ends then of course!

No, it never ends.. if you see what I mean.

So if you visited the site a week after your first visit, it would then still say 'Sale Ends Tomorrow....' and tomorrows date.

[mole]

Never mind the technology of how to do it, won't they get into horrible hot water with the legalities of 'sales' that have variable end dates?

[nicebloke]

I have done it, I just wondered what views were on it, and if anyone else may have tried it..

Personally I feel it's a bit of a con.

[Cipher]

I have seen this before on many sites and indeed a well known one in the seo and ppc trade. I dont think its a partcually good or ethical thing to do but I also dont think it is illegal, basically in a way you are just extending and end date (because of such a great response *yeah right*)...!

[jsinger]

The worst are sites that have a popup that says, "Congratulations, you are our 1,000,000th visitor! Click here." There are pictures of balloons and flashing lights!

Gimme a break!

Maybe that works if you're selling propeller hats for imbeciles!

[EliteWeb]

Its a con dont do it, people looOoose trust

[urameatball]

I've seen this tactic used by a company located in California. It said free shipping expires tomorrow, but since I didn't have the money today, I thought I would order tomorrow and just pay for the extra shipping charges.

Visited the site the next day and found out the free shipping date was moved up to the next day. It looked fishy so I checked the coding and sure enough it was a variable date! Totally lost confidence in the seller! They were selling the item for $3100 and I ended up going to another site and purchasing the same item at a significantly higher price.

I think with internet shopping, everybody is insecure to some degree and any little hint of deception will drive a customer away. Unless you're going out of business anyway, don't try pulling a fast one on the consumer!

[ukgimp]

>>Its a con dont do it, people looOoose trust

you may make one sale but you aint gonna get repeat sales when they see that. Bad press and all that. What about a rotation of special offers on a rotation of products?

[nicebloke]

>rotation of special offers on a rotation of products?

Yes a much better idea!

[francesca]

I also stay away from sites that offer those gimmicks.

[jsinger]

What sort of gimmicks? We offer many short term sales. Very legit. Those kinds of promos are better suited to the web than print media like catalogs, even newspapers.

Got too many Blue widgets? Put them on sale at cost for three days.

[TheWhippinpost]

There are laws against "special offers" such as this in the UK - Basically, IIRC, then you can't advertise a discount or whatever for more than 90 days...sommat like that anyway!

[Smiley]

This could even have a negative effect on the sales, many customers buy days after they first visit the site.

It will put the customer off coming back if they don't wish to buy right away (as they think they would have missed the sale), and if they do come back they'll see it as a con.

A rotating offer for each day may work better.

[rise2it]

I come to your site today, bookmark your site because I'm interested, and leave.

I come back a week later with the intent to buy, see the same 'message', and lose all faith in your company.

I buy from your competitor.