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Yeah Yeah!, I bought a new shoe for myself recently. It’s a Salomon’s Latest Model called the “XT Wings”, whose retail price is at S$229.00. And Guess what? I bought it at S$190.30 and it still comes with an entry to the Salomon’s inaugural X-trail 10km, plus the goodies bags with includes a Salomon Running Tee-shirt and a Salomon’s shoe bag.

Not too bad a package right!! hahaha.

Need to thank the World of Sports(WOS) Sale Assistant and of course my own observation, if not, I will never get to chance upon such a good deal(actually to me, to me it is more of a marketing blunder that I spotted ha).

What happened was, my adventure shoe that I used for work, give way last weekend when I was helping with my friend, Joanne’s adventure race event called, ACE Adventure Challenge V. and that the reason why, I need to get a new pair of shoe, if not I got no footwear to wear to work.

Anyway, as I was shopping around on Monday(13th October 08), I decided to settle on the Salomon brand since I never own a pair of Salomon before. So I ended up at WOS as they are the only sports shop in major shopping mall that carry the brand nowadays.

After going through a few models, I decided to go for the “XT Wings” even thought it is the most expensive at S$229. I’m quite a sucker for shoe, I will buy the shoe as long I like the design and i feel is worth it.  Plus Thinking that my Sister is a WOS Member, I thought I could ride on it to get a 15% discount for my new purchase and hence I decided to buy the shoe. so lets do some math calculation here.

As a WOS member the shoe will cost S$194.60 and I was ready to pay for it until the sales assistant told me that my sister’s card has expired!!! and if i still want the shoe I have to pay the full retail price at S$229.At that point I was like “What? if it is S$229, I don’t think I want to buy the shoe.”

So as I was deciding whether should i continue to make the purchase, the Sale Assistant suggest that why not called any of my friends who is a WOS member and he will still give me the member discount.  I was like “OK, if you don’t mind waiting I will call a few friends to see who is a member.” So as I was walking around the shop making some calls, I saw the Salomon X Trail Run Poster and on that poster I saw the following print”

It says” sign up now to get a limited Salomon Racing tee, A Salomon shoe and a 30% off any Salomon regular priced product.” and immediately in my mind, I was like” Wait a min, if i sign up for the race and i use the 30% the shoe that I want to buy will only cost me $160.30 (30% discount on S$229). plus the registrationfee of $30, I still get the limited Salomon Racing tee and a shoe bag. Doesn’t that make it more worth it?”

SO with the that though in mind I went up to the Sale Assistant and told me about what I had found out on the poster. Together with him and a calculator, we calculated out the following solution.

Solution A) Buy the shoe with WOS member discount will cost me S$194.60 and I will only get the shoe only

Solution B) By signing up for the race at $30, I will get a Salomon tee and a Shoe bag plus a 30% discount for a new Salomon purchase and that mean the shoe i want to buy will cost me $160.30 only. So plus the registration fee. At S$190.30, I not only get the shoe, but also an entry to the race, a race tee and a shoe bag, plus I save S$4.00 more!!

So need I say more??? Of Course, I went for the solution B and I went home a happy man on Monday hahaha!!!