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    Image of infmom infmom
    03/16/09

    In reply to How to Stick It To Big Box Gadget Retailers That Don't Honor Price Match Policies
    Reminds me of when I sold computers at Fry's and we had to call the other store to verify not only the price but if they had the item in stock. If the item was out of stock at the other store, the customer in our store did not get the price match.


    Of course, when the Doofus Brothers laid down that particular law, they never thought to consider whether the other stores would have Caller ID. (Not surprising; Fry's didn't have bar code scanners at the checkouts till 2000. The Doofus Brothers sell technology, they don't use it.)

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/16/09

    In reply to How to Stick It To Big Box Gadget Retailers That Don't Honor Price Match Policies
    Just offer to buy the expensive surge protector too.


    Most of them are really only good for a few hits anyway.


    Personally I'm coveting one of the high end ones myself.

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    03/16/09

    In reply to How to Stick It To Big Box Gadget Retailers That Don't Honor Price Match Policies
    Denying the free delivery after doing a $700 price match actually is stated quite clearly in the price match policy. You can't get both deals. That's double dipping.


    Here's the policy in writing, and every Best Buy has hard copies of it. Make them follow it, but don't expect them to break the rules just so you can save money.

    [www.bestbuy.com]

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/16/09

    @jayhawk11: Don't cloud the issue with facts man!
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    Image of Piker247 Piker247
    03/16/09

    @jayhawk11:


    How dare you take the side of a retailer! Don't you know that all businesses that that offer us a "choice" of purchasing their products or services for our cash are out to screw us. The fact that they attempt to perform their legal obligation to try and make money for their shareholders is only futher proof of this!

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    03/16/09

    @Piker247: It would be nice if they didn't try and jerk you around, and just followed their own policies without you having to prove them wrong at every turn to get your discount, that THEIR policies grant you.


    There is a BIIIG difference between "capitalism", and being a douche bag to your customers to try to prevent under-cost sales, that ARE specifically condoned under certain circumstances by your written store policy.


    I'm so sick of these fucking corporate apologists, every time someone accuses a particular store of being a cheap-skate or not living up to their own store policies, they think the criticism is a de-facto attack on the entire concept of capitalism...


    Yeah, I am fucking clear on the concept of capitalism, and that stores that make money do better than stores that don't, and the shareholder bullshit, blah, blah, blah.


    None of that has ANYTHING to do with what we are talking about. If your store is going to publish policies regarding price-matching, returns, exchanges, warranties, extended-warranties, service-plans, etc. You better fucking well STICK to those policies without me having to chew out a manager in order to get WHAT IS OWED to me.


    So, STFU and GTFO, bitch.


    /rant


    (p.s. I'm not sure if I am directing this at Piker or not, I cannot seem to decipher his ambitious sarcasm)

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    03/16/09

    @bpapa9013: "...ambiguous sarcasm)" that is...


    Edit button? PREVIEW button?!?

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    03/16/09

    In reply to How to Stick It To Big Box Gadget Retailers That Don't Honor Price Match Policies
    After reading a recent article in Laptopmag that claims Office Depot associates are told to prevent customers from buying sale laptops unless....

    Well, I think all/most of those Office Depot employees should be fired. And I want it done two months ago!
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    Image of webster32 webster32
    03/16/09

    @AfraidOfVelcro_GitEmSteveDave: it's management who needs taught a lesson, not the peeons who work there...
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    03/16/09

    @webster32: agreed, the peeons are just following orders, the management needs to be taught a harsh lesson on what it is/is not okay to tell the peeons to do.
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    Image of Joe Stoner Joe Stoner
    03/16/09

    In reply to How to Stick It To Big Box Gadget Retailers That Don't Honor Price Match Policies
    Here's another solution - buy it from the people who are offering the lower price. With so many places that you can buy from online, why go through the hassle of bringing a competitor's ad to BB and persuading them to honor it?
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    03/16/09

    @joestoner: The feeling of knowing that you just got an item for less than the retailer was hoping to charge you for it. (even though another retailer would accept that amount)


    Stick it to tha MAN!

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    Image of BuddyHinton BuddyHinton
    03/16/09

    In reply to How to Stick It To Big Box Gadget Retailers That Don't Honor Price Match Policies
    Here's a simple solution. Get rid of the price-match policy.
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    Image of jmurph05 jmurph05
    03/16/09

    @BuddyHinton: Yeah, but then they'll charge you out the ass and you have no other way to get what you want...
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    Image of EBone EBone
    03/16/09

    @jmurph05: I think Buddy's point is, if BB is ALWAYS going to frak with you when you try and price match, then BB should just do away with the policy.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    12/10/08

    In reply to Office Depot to Close 112 Stores
    This is why my uncle, a collections-attorney in business for over 25 years, owns a 125 year-old 4-story townhouse in Haight-Ashbury. He got rich in the 1987 crash and he's getting richer now.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/10/08

    @OMG! Ponies!: But does he eat sushi, and then not pay for it?
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    12/10/08

    In reply to Office Depot to Close 112 Stores
    *err...officedepot I mean
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    Image of discounteggroll discounteggroll
    12/10/08

    In reply to Office Depot to Close 112 Stores
    I told the scarsdale, ny officemax that I would have the last laugh. Nice to know I am true to my word


    suckers

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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    12/10/08

    In reply to Office Depot to Close 112 Stores
    pretty soon there's not going to be anything but dollar stores around my office where I can "try" to get stuff during the day.


    I did have a CompUSA, Circuit City, and Office depot all in the same retail park about 2 miles away. Now, nothing but crickets chirping in the night.

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    Image of dingus dingus
    12/10/08

    In reply to Office Depot to Close 112 Stores
    I think we need a tournament grid for Big Box Retail Overlord.
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    12/10/08

    @dingus: I'm pretty sure the finals will be Costco vs. Fry's.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/10/08

    @dingus: WAL*MART is not going away anytime soon.
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    Image of Smiley Massacre Smiley Massacre
    12/10/08

    In reply to Office Depot to Close 112 Stores
    Where I live, we don't have any of these stores anywhere, at least within 200 miles. What are they, like an Office Max?
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/10/08

    @xAnarChisTx:

    Office Max/Office Depot/Staples are all the same..
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    Image of Skiphex Skiphex
    12/10/08

    In reply to Office Depot to Close 112 Stores
    Why not Radio Shack? I never see anyone in there.
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    12/10/08

    @Skiphex: Radio Shack's founder made a pact with the devil.


    There can be no other rational explanation for their continued existence...

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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    12/10/08

    @Skiphex: Are you kidding? Those guys have high quality keyboards, soldering irons, RC cars, and staff that know everything about electronics!
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    12/10/08

    @admoseremic: Wow, I'd like to go to a Radio Shack near you because that description does not apply to any of the stores around me.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/10/08

    @admoseremic: The third worst poetry in the universe.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/10/08

    In reply to Office Depot to Close 112 Stores
    If there's one good thing to come out of our current economic woes, it's that we came up with a funny name for it. Financiapocalypse.


    Oh Office Depot, you're like the Circuit City of the stationary world.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    12/10/08

    @Kaiser-Machead: I've gotten three of the JerseyCam Cams there. They have been good to me.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/10/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: Been good to me too. I got a fully loaded, slightly fondled ThinkPad for $650.
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    12/10/08

    @Kaiser-Machead: No, that was Office Max..
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/10/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude: Wow, I completely forgot about them, and their little stick figure.
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    12/10/08

    @Kaiser-Machead: Exactly!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    12/10/08

    @Kaiser-Machead: And even freakier is the newest cam I got, which I haven't set up yet, was purchased at CircuitCity. They're better than OfficeDepot in that due to their 24 minute guarantee, they are paying me to buy the cam.
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    Image of ZLevee ZLevee
    11/18/08

    In reply to Office Depot Black Friday Ad Leaked
    Oooh baby - It's business time!
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