"But then I thought, 'Well, it's just my eye, you can't see anything else about me, so of course I'll post it.' " Why not take a discount, she reasoned.
Yet the industry has continued to increase its "sticker prices" by 2-3% everyear onlyly to give back almost all the gain by offering ever-greater discounts.One reason for this is that, as ever more big clients discover they can haggle, law firms have realised that the best way for them to start the negotiation is with the highest possible asking-price.
"Some have just never accepted my victory, and have discounted the reasons why the grass roots voted for me," he added.
"It's nice to have a discount and a reason to avoid a grimy porn store".
The market can't be discounted as a reason.
Yet in as many as a quarter of all leases, software vendors, for competitive reasons, discount the purchase price to offset all or part of the financing costs.
But shareholders probably aren't feeling comforted, writes Spencer Jakab in The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column: "Focusing on cash and cash flow isn't exciting to investors who have, for good reason, discounted the likelihood of a takeover offer.
She tried to use the offers for a large bottle of cranberry juice, rather than the smaller bottle of cranberry apple juice she usually buys, and a box of Cocoa Puffs that was not on her shopping list — but she said the discounts for some reason were not loaded onto her card at checkout.
E-mails like this, with quirky tales and discounts, are one reason Lands Endd sells more apparel online than any other retailer–$327 million last year, up 37%.
Discounts are one reason for the impressive sales.
