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"Secret Sales. Remember my blog the about trying to get discounts and/or better deals on products and services just by asking? Well here&amp;#039;s a new one on me. From what I understand, many upscale retailers don&amp;#039;t want to advertise the fact they&amp;#039;re willing to discount merchandise. Yes, you read right. I actually laughed out loud when I read about how some retailers including Bloomingdale&amp;#039;s and Neiman Marcus have sales reps who will sidle up to customers and whisper that there are &amp;quot;unadvertised sales&amp;quot; on items they might be looking at. Evidently Tiffany doesn&amp;#039;t do this. But some retailers obviously think it&amp;#039;s creative to turn discounts into &amp;quot;secret sales&amp;quot; for special customers. Huh?  Since when has &amp;quot;on sale&amp;quot; become a bad thing?  Sometimes these sales are so secret they come through e-mails only, and say something like: &amp;quot;Order online within the next 2 hours and save 50% .... Was thinking of taking a run over to Neiman Marcus, but quickly realized no one would offer me a secret sale because a) I don&amp;#039;t look like a special customer, and b) I&amp;#039;d be too chicken to ask for a discount! We all know retail sales are down, but somehow unadvertised secret sales don&amp;#039;t seem the way to go. I think it&amp;#039;s a little creepy, so for me this is a DEAL BREAKER! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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