Adrianna TanDynamic pricing is such a scam. I was at Best Buy looking at something and in 10 min it jumped $200. lol
At the shop they haven’t gone fully dynamic price tags so there was still the physical price tag to refer to. Online, the price had changed and you wouldn’t know it. Anyway, I am sitting here waiting for a manager to decide if he will honor a physical price tag.
I hope everyone who works on data analysis for dynamic pricing for anything gets bed bugs.
I mean I don’t really necessarily want or need this thing but
Now I’m invested
I want to see what happens if a customer insists on the physical sticker price.
lol they tried to tell me that I had to wait an hour for a GM to come back and honor the printed price
I was like yeah I can wait I have lots of time
I sat down and just stared at them
10 min later they said fine you can have the printed price
Best Buy is a scam
They also try to sell you a Best Buy credit card for a $20 discount. Retail is so fucked in this country
Anyway, this is how I ended up with an open box ROG Ally X
Now I can play Cyberpunk on the train (I’m going on several long train rides) to bemoan this dystopia
They were trying to get me to ‘upgrade’ to the full price box ‘coz you never know what’s wrong with open box’ but their own open box sticker said ‘excellent condition’
I think sometimes men in consumer electronics think they can scam me on anything to do with computers and devices? It’s very confusing for everyone. Yes I know what RAM and SSD is!
I’ve never bought a car. But I imagine it’s a similar experience
Kay Ohtie 🔜 FWA@skinnylatte That's so fucking bizarre. Usually Best Buys are more than happy to let go of Open Box stock because it's just taking up space for them and they lose money if they have to send it back to the DC for inventory changes.
Got my TV for turbo-discount from one about 2 years ago marked as basically "nothing but the TV in the box", lowest pricing. It was in perfect condition with all accessories; learned they do that to move inventory faster sometimes with the lower price.
Fucked up they aren't doing that now.
@KayOhtie their whole corporate mission in the last two years is ‘just sell predatory credit cards’. I truly think that’s all there is to it. They’re not interested in moving products anymore
@skinnylatte ah so we're back to "Best Buy in the late 90's to early 00's" I see
Dave@KayOhtie @skinnylatte Ah yes, the "extended warranty" era. That's when I stopped going there. Went shopping for a printer. I went in there expecting a hard time, but the guy who helped me was pretty chill and generally seemed like a nice guy. I went to grab the printer off of the shelf and this other dude aggressively comes up to me and starts giving me the hard sell on the extended warranty, telling me things like I don't know what could go wrong, etc. I said something to the effect that "wow, I didn't know you sold such shitty products that will break when I get home" and I walked out never to return.
I felt somewhat satisfied with myself that they lost my sale, but then I later heard that they made more money on the extended warranties than they did on the products, so not selling me the item worked better in their favor. Then I was really determined to give them the finger at every opportunity since. It seems they've moved from that shitty practice to the 'Geek Squad' racket, and now this.
kauer@zornslemmon @KayOhtie @skinnylatte Best thing that ever happened for consumers in Australia was the revamped Consumer Protection Act. Everything has a deemed lifetime; if it fails in less than that time, it is as if your warranty was at least that long. A refrigerator, for example, really should last at least ten years. The only way to sell an extended warranty to an Australian consumer is if it extends the consumer law warranty, or offers protections over and above those provided by consumer law. There are some exceptions for things considered consumables, or where a consumer could damage the product in invisible ways - so laptop batteries, car tyres, that sort of thing.
It's not perfect, but it's pretty good. One missing element is who pays freight; if an item needs repair or replacement, IMHO the vendor should be paying for both the return and the new delivery.
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦@kauer @zornslemmon @KayOhtie @skinnylatte Zero chance of that happening in the US for the foreseeable future. We're charging face first into Snow Crash crossed with Handmaid's Tale, but with a shit "metaverse" run by a robot lizard.