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Jack

On 1/13/2017 2:52 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 11:07:44 -0500, Jack wrote:

I think catalog sales and online sales are almost identical. On-line is
cheaper and easy to keep up to date. Today, people occasionally go to a
retail store if in a super hurry, bored, or want to physically see and
touch a product before ordering it on-line.
What I can't figure out is why, after going to the store to handle
the thing, you go home and order it online instead of taking it with
you - particularly at stores that will "price match".

I only tried price match twice, both times at Best Buy. One was Sam's
club had a major sale on Samsung 55' smart TV's. I was at Best Buy and
they had the same TV for a LOT more money. I told the sales man, showed
him the TV on my cell phone. He said that's a hell of a price, but he
would need to get his manager. The manager came out, and made some
really stupid excuse, like it was a special sale, something like that,
and it didn't qualify.

Second time I needed a cable for a computer I bought at BB. I looked it
up and Staples had it for $7. I drove to Staples and they didn't have
it in stock, would take a few days to order it. Went to Best Buy and
they had the exact same cable, but in a BB box, and it was like $20.
They would not do the price match then, because they were not the same
brand. So for me, I'm 0 for 2 in the price match game.

Also, I noticed a lot of stuff you buy at the Borgs have unique model
numbers for stuff, and looking up those numbers turn up nothing. I
would imagine this tactic would put a crimp in price matching if the
store didn't want to match prices. $1 difference, no problem, $100
difference, big problem....

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Jack
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