You call this a sale?

This weekend, March 28, 2008 to March, 30, 2008, there's a sale for friends and family of Foot Locker. So, there's a big sale at Foot Locker.

And this is the sale in detail: 30% on any amount less than $150, and if you spend more than that, you'll get an extra 10% if you spend more than $150. These are all amounts before tax.

So, my friend and I thought that we would go shopping, because this looks like it's a good deal. Of course, like most promotions, there are restrictions. For this particular sale, the restrictions are the following:

No Nike Shox;
No Nike Air One;
No Nike Dunk;
No Puma;
No Converse Chuck Taylor;
and many many more that I don't remember. The list of restrictions was about three pages long. Well, I'm exaggerating here, but it was a very extensive list. Think of those Looney Tune cartoons where the King has a list of new decrees, and they unroll the parchment, and it stems from the room all the way to the village market? Yeah...

This basically boils down to anything in the store where there is a sticker of "Buy one, get the second at 50% off".

The reason why there are shoes with that particular sticker is because they are ugly and the store wants to get rid of them... And in the case of the stores, this means about 90% of their merchandise is not included in the sale...

As my friend whom I told this to stated, "That's not a sale." I concur. This is not a sale. Foot Locker should not have called this "Friends and Family sale". It should have been "Dummies and Idiots sale".

And since I am not a dummy nor an idiot, I did not buy anything in this sale. What type of crap advertising is this? Sheesh.