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VOICE YOUR VIEWS: FESTIVAL OFFER: REAL OR GIMMICK?
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People are just lured by free gifts and buy things without seeing their quality. Those offers are often bogus and sellers sell their old stock. Festival offers are just an eyewash. Advertisements are very appealing and most people fall for ...

Every businessman finds ways and means to make as much profit as possible. Though most of the festival offers appear to be attractive, one wonders how it is possible. More business with lesser margin of profit could be one explanation for ...

It is a gimmick. Whenever a company gives any offer, it advertise it. In these advertisements, we can see “Conditions apply” written in small letters. What are these conditions? Does the customer get any genuine profit? Who is ...

Earlier, only during Aadi, festival offers were announced and that too particularly for garments. Nowadays, festival offers are on round the year. While some may consider it to be a gimmick, there are people who simply wait for these festival ...

Festival offer is just a trick. Shoppers intend to give offers just to attract people’s attention. Only during festival season, common people purchase items on sale for the fascinating low prices offered by the shop keepers. But they do ...

Festival offers are not real. They are essentially business tricks. Shop keepers announce various schemes with free gifts but actually fool the public by covering the cost of free gifts in the main item of purchase. No company or businessman ...

Nowadays, festival offers and discounts have become the order of the day and reached a new popularity high among the people. But a serious assessment will reveal that these offers are nothing but a gimmick. People should realise that without ...

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