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Hi Hazel

There's been a fair bit of stuff on the french news in the last few days showing eager-beavers snapping up bargains in places like Jersey and Monaco, where the sales have already started.  I'm pretty sure that they also said that the sales in France don't start until the 11th January.

 

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Happy new year

Can anyone tell me how genuine the January sales are in France.  I have lived here for 6 months, so have no experience of the said sales.  I am about to make some furniture purchases (new) am I likely to make a saving if I wait 'till the 11th.

Many thanks

Dotty

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I would say that there are genuine sales. If you are looking for furniture why don't you start looking around and checking prices and then see if these goods are on sale during the sale period and if the prices are reduced.

We bought a leather suite from a good shop a few years ago that was genuinely half price.

A friend did complain that she thought that Carrefour had things in the sales last year that she hadn't seen before, therefore implying that they had brought in specific items just for the sales.

 

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Can anyone please explain how it is that all the sales start on 11 Jan?

Is there some sort of national edict or trade agreement behind this? It

puzzles me that individual shops don't simply arrange their own sales

dates to suit themselves according to their view of commercial

pressures and maybe to steal a march on their competitors.

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[quote user="Mochas"]
Is there some sort of national edict or trade agreement behind this? [/quote]

 

Yes, is the short answer.

See this paragraph from the FAQ on TU's "Service Public" website

Quelle est la durée des soldes ? 

Les soldes ont une période déterminée (deux fois par an) et une durée limitée de six semaines chacune maximum. Les dates de ces périodes sont fixées dans chaque département par les préfets après consultation des professionnels, mais elles peuvent être harmonisées au plan national.  

Angela

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yes, they are not allowed to have sales outside the official times, but

you will see "promotions", which in reality can be sales (although not

always, sometimes it is a promotion!) or some formulation on "les X

jours de (name of the shop)" where they have reductions which again are

similar to sales.  In France there aren't sales on absolutely

everything the way there is in the UK, it really is a way of getting

rid of old stock and as such I would say they are real sales, with

bargains to be had.  However they are very progressive, 1 demarque

at the beginning, say 25%, 2 demarque - often after about a week, and

then 3 demarque, it can be worth waiting, or just going at the end, my

husband got a fantastic coat from 200 down to 40 last year, but

then again it was the last one and he is extra large[:)]

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