Am I a completely immoral person?

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: amjohns5

Originally posted by: m0mentary
who cares, you're a great wife!

 

[FlashG]

Originally posted by: gingerstewart55
Y'all are just sooooo bad!

I'm an old woman of 52 and I'm sure you don't want to see what 52 years does to a 40D.....LOL!

Wrong I like to look at younger geek squad women. Just don't tell the wife

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: MotionMan
What you did was wrong. You knowingly paid less for an item than you should have - sounds like theft to me. The store employee made a mistake, but it was not condoned or approved by the store. In the end, we all end up paying for these "discounts".

Is this what we want to teach our children to do? Would you proudly tell this story around the Thanksgiving table with all your family, friends and clergy present?

I think not.

OP, were you really confused as to whether what you did was immoral? Of course it was.




That being said, we have all done it and would probably do it again. I just do not think it is something to brag about, be proud of, encourage or condone.

MotionMan

Wow, once mommy gets you off your moral high chair, listen up.

I bought an Alpine iDA-X001 headunit at Best Buy for $80. This headunit sold for $350+ just months ago, and was clearanced WAY down at certain BBs. The only BB in my area that had it for $80 was sold out; I bought it at another one and took it to the OOS store and they willingly price matched it. Am I the spawn of satan?

I do not believe that what you did was immoral since the BB knowingly and willingly did the price match. It appears that there were no mistakes or sneakiness involved.

Do you think you got away with something immoral?

MotionMan

I definitely believe it was sneaky. I knew that store was out of stock, took the unit there, returned it to "add a warranty" and rebought it. They were as hell when it rang up as $79.99 after giving me back $340, but their inventory system said $79.99 so they honored their price. You probably shouldn't ever visit slickdeals.net.

Getting a deal while following the rules (being a Devil as the CEO of BB called us) is not immoral. Obtaining a sale price on an item that is offered to the general public is not immoral. I do not think what you did was immoral at all. I do not think it was sneaky, either - I think it was a very smart way of getting the best deal possible within the system.

MotionMan

 

[narzy]

Originally posted by: gingerstewart55
Y'all are just sooooo bad!

I'm an old woman of 52 and I'm sure you don't want to see what 52 years does to a 40D.....LOL!

I think that is for US to decide...don't you?

As for the morals of the situation, that is really up to you if you truly feel what you did was right then there is nothing i can say to change that. You cost the company money, but in the grand scheme of things the markups that they charge cover their tails in loss prevention and they did screw up putting the wrong tag on the item but should a 2 cent mistake cost them 60 to 90 bucks? I think that is a bit extreme...

that being said, I would have done it.

 

[Nemesis 1]

You shouldn't ask us this qyestion. How do you feel about the mistake. Than ans. your own question.

Here is something that happened to me. As I am sure to many other people also.

I went to cash my payroll check at my bank drive threw . As always I pulled ahead Counted the money. The teller made a mistake. So I drove aroynd got back in line. Got to the window and told the teller she errored in the amount she gave me.

Will she blew up and said I gave you the right amount and said a few choice words. I said OK . I may have made a mistake. Shee said good. I looked her straight in the eyes and said yes it was vary good for me. Than I drove off.

Later that night she called me and said her tell was off. I said well you gave me the right amount. She said you know that I have to cover shorts and I said Ya I know that. Than I said were you off by $100. She said yes. Than I said how could you make such a mistake. She said I don't know but I did. Than I said than you made 2 mistakes didn't you. She says in a snubbish way. Well what do you mean by that.

I said there are some people out there who would return the money. But you get all huffy with them and act like a bitch. They going to leave you hanging. I said I will bring your $100 down to the bank tomorrow.

I did she never said I am sorry . Or thanks. I took my wifes money and mine out of the bank . Put it in another. My wife new one of the tellers and was told latter the rude person lost her job over the whole deal . Not because we pulled our money . But because she niether said she was sorry or thank you.

There is a moral to this.

 

[BoomerD]

I worked for an employer that paid us weekly. (truck driver)
One week, they missed docking me for a day I had taken off work.
I didn't say anything since I worked well over 40 hours in a week anyway.

About a month later, they inadvertently underpaid me by a day's wages.
I went to the boss and complained.

He told me, "A couple of weeks ago, we overpaid you, but you said nothing.
Now, we underpay you and you're bitching. Why?"

I told him one mistake I could overlook...but not two.

He fired me on the spot.

Was I immoral for not reporting the overpayment?

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
I worked for an employer that paid us weekly. (truck driver)
One week, they missed docking me for a day I had taken off work.
I didn't say anything since I worked well over 40 hours in a week anyway.

About a month later, they inadvertently underpaid me by a day's wages.
I went to the boss and complained.

He told me, "A couple of weeks ago, we overpaid you, but you said nothing.
Now, we underpay you and you're bitching. Why?"

I told him one mistake I could overlook...but not two.

He fired me on the spot.

Was I immoral for not reporting the overpayment?

shens

MotionMan

 

[Pacfanweb]

What if you didn't know what the real price was supposed to be, and you were just buying it because it caught your eye? Not your responsibility to make sure the price is high enough.

Guarantee that all stores have pricing mistakes the other way, too....how many folks buy something and pay too much on a mis-priced item?

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
What if you didn't know what the real price was supposed to be, and you were just buying it because it caught your eye?

That is not the case here, but since you asked - no, that would not be immoral.

MotionMan

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: m0mentary
who cares, you're a great wife!

That's what I would have said too.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
most places have all the prices in the computer and go by the bar code, not a sticker

True, but if it's stickered at a certain price then you'll get that price 9/10 times, else just take your business to another store.

Not my fault as a consumer if someone mislabels an item. I wouldn't have said a thing

 

[ShockwaveVT]

business is war

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Nemesis 1
You shouldn't ask us this qyestion. How do you feel about the mistake. Than ans. your own question.

Here is something that happened to me. As I am sure to many other people also.

I went to cash my payroll check at my bank drive threw . As always I pulled ahead Counted the money. The teller made a mistake. So I drove aroynd got back in line. Got to the window and told the teller she errored in the amount she gave me.

Will she blew up and said I gave you the right amount and said a few choice words. I said OK . I may have made a mistake. Shee said good. I looked her straight in the eyes and said yes it was vary good for me. Than I drove off.

Later that night she called me and said her tell was off. I said well you gave me the right amount. She said you know that I have to cover shorts and I said Ya I know that. Than I said were you off by $100. She said yes. Than I said how could you make such a mistake. She said I don't know but I did. Than I said than you made 2 mistakes didn't you. She says in a snubbish way. Well what do you mean by that.

I said there are some people out there who would return the money. But you get all huffy with them and act like a bitch. They going to leave you hanging. I said I will bring your $100 down to the bank tomorrow.

I did she never said I am sorry . Or thanks. I took my wifes money and mine out of the bank . Put it in another. My wife new one of the tellers and was told latter the rude person lost her job over the whole deal . Not because we pulled our money . But because she niether said she was sorry or thank you.

There is a moral to this.

Yes, the moral is stay in school!

 

[DrPizza]

Immoral would be if you saw 10 of them in that stack and bought all of them, knowing there was a price mistake.


That reminds me. About a year ago, my wife and I had a gift card to a slightly upscale department store. We bought a toaster or something and had $20 left on the gift certificate. We walked all over the store trying to find something to purchase, because we figured we'd never use the rest of the card otherwise. Finally we found some candles. Regular price was $19.99 (very large jar candles) - quality was great, the scent was excellent. The candles were marked down to $14.99 with a sign that said something like "no further discounts will apply." And, they probably were worth $14.99. Well, at least $10 anyway; I had never seen their equivalent for less than that. Well, we took the toaster and candle to the register, figuring that after tax, it'd cost us about a dollar out of our pocket.

The total was way off. "There must be a mistake - something didn't ring up right." Toaster rang up for the correct price. Candle rang up for $1.49. "Ahh, that's what's wrong, it's supposed to be $14.99" Cashier double checked. Then triple checked. "Well, sometimes we have a scent of the month that goes on sale for a lot less than the other candles. It must be that scent this month."

I must have asked her "are you sure that's the right price" eight or ten times. "I don't have a problem paying more for it if it's supposed to cost more than that. Besides, we were just using it as a filler to match the amount on our gift card. "Nope, that's definitely the right price." "Are you really sure?!" "Yes" "You're not just saying that because it's store policy to charge the price on the item, even if the item is mismarked, are you?" "No, that's the actual price."

"Okay" Looked at wife, "well, we're gonna need a bunch of those candles now to match the gift card amount. Go get a bunch more. "

They make excellent gifts. I think we're down to 2 or 3.

 

[eakers]

where I live if something is priced wrong you are entitled to purchase 1 at that price or something.

 

[RossMAN]

I hope your husband gave you a good spanking.

 

[FlashG]

Case in point. I still have my 19" $164 Hitachi 752 from Buycom.

 

[I Saw OJ]

Had a similar thing happen to me a while ago at wally world. Picked up Age of Empires 3 when it first came out, saw a stack of them for 14.99. Took it up to the cashier and he rung it up, naturally it came up to 60.XX something or other. I said it was marked as 14.99 over there. Sure enough they looked and someone put a stack of them in the wrong place, they still gave it to me for 14.99. I was happy

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I hope your husband gave you a good spanking.

RosssMAN how is your wife anyway?

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: TehMac

Originally posted by: RossMAN
I hope your husband gave you a good spanking.

RosssMAN how is your wife anyway?

:evil:

 

[Nemesis 1]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Nemesis 1
You shouldn't ask us this qyestion. How do you feel about the mistake. Than ans. your own question.

Here is something that happened to me. As I am sure to many other people also.

I went to cash my payroll check at my bank drive threw . As always I pulled ahead Counted the money. The teller made a mistake. So I drove aroynd got back in line. Got to the window and told the teller she errored in the amount she gave me.

Will she blew up and said I gave you the right amount and said a few choice words. I said OK . I may have made a mistake. Shee said good. I looked her straight in the eyes and said yes it was vary good for me. Than I drove off.

Later that night she called me and said her tell was off. I said well you gave me the right amount. She said you know that I have to cover shorts and I said Ya I know that. Than I said were you off by $100. She said yes. Than I said how could you make such a mistake. She said I don't know but I did. Than I said than you made 2 mistakes didn't you. She says in a snubbish way. Well what do you mean by that.

I said there are some people out there who would return the money. But you get all huffy with them and act like a bitch. They going to leave you hanging. I said I will bring your $100 down to the bank tomorrow.

I did she never said I am sorry . Or thanks. I took my wifes money and mine out of the bank . Put it in another. My wife new one of the tellers and was told latter the rude person lost her job over the whole deal . Not because we pulled our money . But because she niether said she was sorry or thank you.

There is a moral to this.

Yes, the moral is stay in school!

Dam spelling grammer cops ! Its not something you would do . But you got no problem pointing out a spelling , grammer mistake. Without knowing the condition of the author. Your perfect.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: richardycc
in my state, by law they have to give you the lower price even if its a mistake.

lol...I REALLY doubt that's true.

 

[Alistar7]

Call them and ask if they mark an item incorrectly will they honor the price as shown? If their policy covers that event there is no question about the morality, or legality of your purchase.

Personally I don't think you did anything wrong. Their job is to offer you an item at a price, your prerogative as a shopper is to decide if you value the item as much as they are asking in compensation. Just because they were incompetent in their responsibilities to protect their own interest does not mean you shouldn't make the most of your own opportunity as a consumer. Let's imagine an item that you don't know the value andno price is shown, you offer double it's value. Do you think the store would turn down your offer? You made some money off them this time, don't sweat it, 99.9% of the time they will make a profit off of you.

This Microcenter had a rather large stock of Swiftech and Thermochill radiators.

They could have just had a large inventory they wanted to dump. The Best Buy situation earlier described in the thread shows you can have a significant price difference between online price and various retail outlets based on inventory levels.

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: richardycc
in my state, by law they have to give you the lower price even if its a mistake.

lol...I REALLY doubt that's true.

A lot of states have "pricing error" laws of some type, although most only require a written policy be available to consumers.