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
tentative existence@skinnylatte I have an answer for those pitches that I'm suddenly extra grateful for. "There was a data breach at a company that handles data for my health insurance provider, and I had to set up a fraud alert with the credit reporting agencies. To get a credit card, I have to temporarily remove the alert, which requires answering questions about where family members have lived, and I'm estranged from my family. But thanks anyway."