A retail chain is being scrutinized after footage showing the company allegedly duping customers with their Black Friday sale went viral.Lizzy Brown shared two videos to Facebook on November 24, showing what she said demonstrated Harvey Norman’s dishonesty. This video shows the store’s Fantasia three-seater sofa on sale for €1,499. Brown removed the sale price notice, and revealed that the price prior to Black Friday was the exact same.
Another video shows her removing a sale price ticket for a tablet, and at first glance, it looks like the original price was actually cheaper than its “reduced” rate.
Harvey Norman have since said that the ticket underneath was for a tablet with a lot less memory. This claim by the store checks out, as seen in the zoomed-in screenshot included below. The original price is for a 16GB tablet, as opposed to the 32GB mentioned on the yellow ticket.
The videos have since gone viral, with the sofa footage gathering over 121,000 views on Facebook at the time of writing. Credit: Facebook/Lizzy Brown via Storyful