I was in a Microcenter yesterday, browsing. Husband wants to return to watercooling his computer (moved to air cooling and hates the noise!) and has been buying parts over the past week or two.
One of the last things to buy is the radiator which is where I come into this. This Microcenter had a rather large stock of Swiftech and Thermochill radiators. While I don't get deeply involved in this, I do know about what the various parts cost and looking at the Swiftech 120x3 radiators, noticed they'd had their prices raised recently...new price sticker on top of old one (some overlapped badly and were obvious they'd been just put on) and the price was now $59.99.
Now, I know online the price for the same radiator is under $50, so despite me wanting to buy one for his Valentine's Day present, albeit belated, I passed on them. But underneath the stack of Swiftech rads was one Thermochill 120.3 radiator, so I pulled it out from underneath and took a look....he's wanted one but just couldn't justify the high price.
Well, lo and behold, it seems that some worker at Microcenter repriced this rad with the same price sticker as on the Swiftech rads....$59.99, and had the same overlapped price stickers.
So I picked it up and checked out......paid $64.19 for it....pretty much less than half retail, esp. from Microcenter.
Now he's all up in arms about how I should have alerted the store to the pricing mistake and paid its true full price, and on and on. Oh, he's already cleaning it, so I guess it doesn't bother him TOO much.
Should I have told them or am I OK with taking advantage of a store's ignorant clerks?
One of the last things to buy is the radiator which is where I come into this. This Microcenter had a rather large stock of Swiftech and Thermochill radiators. While I don't get deeply involved in this, I do know about what the various parts cost and looking at the Swiftech 120x3 radiators, noticed they'd had their prices raised recently...new price sticker on top of old one (some overlapped badly and were obvious they'd been just put on) and the price was now $59.99.
Now, I know online the price for the same radiator is under $50, so despite me wanting to buy one for his Valentine's Day present, albeit belated, I passed on them. But underneath the stack of Swiftech rads was one Thermochill 120.3 radiator, so I pulled it out from underneath and took a look....he's wanted one but just couldn't justify the high price.
Well, lo and behold, it seems that some worker at Microcenter repriced this rad with the same price sticker as on the Swiftech rads....$59.99, and had the same overlapped price stickers.
So I picked it up and checked out......paid $64.19 for it....pretty much less than half retail, esp. from Microcenter.
Now he's all up in arms about how I should have alerted the store to the pricing mistake and paid its true full price, and on and on. Oh, he's already cleaning it, so I guess it doesn't bother him TOO much.
Should I have told them or am I OK with taking advantage of a store's ignorant clerks?
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