FactorGaming.com Using Deceptive Marketing!

[DasFox]

Last month, like a kiddie in the candy store I was drooling over the Sager NP8662, thinking this might
be my gaming laptop dream.

I visited that site many times last month so I know what I saw, I mean when you are drooling over your dream machine, looking specs up and down over and over and constantly frequenting the website to dream some more, you know what the cost is, because you are at home counting the pennies to make that purchase.

Well I went to the website today and right away I noticed the words in BIG LETTERS $200 OFF!

http://www.factorgaming.com/gaming_laptops.php

I was like, what, you've got to be kidding, I can now buy my dream for $200 less? Well I was getting excited, then I clicked the link to look at the laptop and my jaw dropped!

FactorGaming jacked the prices up on all the laptops $200 from last month and they are now saying they're giving a $200 deal, what a LOAD of BS!

Well I wrote a letter to their company and I wrote a nice letter of complaint to Sager, telling them these deceptive marketing practices should not be tolerated!

Well if Sager doesn't step up here, then I'm not sure I'll ever buy a Sager product.

I'm truly shocked here, I've never seen a computer company ever in 20 years, pull this kind of CRAP!

 

[Colt45]

Tons of places do this (mostly B&M tho); I buy from zero of them.

 

[MikeMike]

you could always just buy elsewhere...

 

[DasFox]

Tons of places do this (mostly B&M tho); I buy from zero of them.

Well as consumers we've heard things out there happening, but in computing, I've personally never seen a display of decpetion like this ever for a computer company.

I'm really shocked...

 

[Quiksilver]

Why not buy directly from Sager?

 

[MikeMike]

Well as consumers we've heard things out there happening, but in computing, I've personally never seen a display of decpetion like this ever for a computer company.

I'm really shocked...

there is nothing deceptive about it...

NOTHING.

 

[DasFox]

Why not buy directly from Sager?

I might after I hear what Sager has to say over this matter.

 

[zerocool84]

How is that deceptive marketing? They are knocking $200 off whatever price it currently is. If they raised the prices and you didn't notice not their fault.

 

[Mike Gayner]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gf8NK1WAOc

edit: Do some of you dumb retards really believe this isn't deliberately and overtly deceptive? Wow.

 

[DasFox]

there is nothing deceptive about it...

NOTHING.

What do you mean this is not deception? What do you call it then?

They had all of the laptops selling for $200 less last month, now they jack them up $200 and say they are offering $200 off.

I'm sorry but this is EXTREME DECEPTION.

I clearly understand the meaning of the word.

Deception:

1. The act of deceiving; the state of being deceived
2. The acts or practices of one who deliberately deceives
3. The use of deceit
4. A ruse; a trick
5. Something that deceives, as an illusion, or is meant to deceive, as a fraud

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

It's quite obviously deceptive marketing. I can understand (although disagree) if you want to defend the practice, but it's quite obviously deceptive in nature - the company is trying to deceive the buyer into thinking they're getting an item for $200 less than they otherwise would have.

 

[MikeMike]

are they, or are they NOT offering $200 off of their current price?

 

[MikeMike]

It's quite obviously deceptive marketing. I can understand (although disagree) if you want to defend the practice, but it's quite obviously deceptive in nature - the company is trying to deceive the buyer into thinking they're getting an item for $200 less than they otherwise would have.

but who says their prices didnt increase 200 on their stock since last month... an they are trying to give some a discount until the actual prices increase again

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

are they, or are they NOT offering $200 off of their current price?

Are they or are they NOT offering $200 off of their usual price?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

but who says their prices didnt increase 200 on their stock since last month... an they are trying to give some a discount until the actual prices increase again

That would be an amazing coincidence, and I'm not buying it.

 

[MikeMike]

Are they or are they NOT offering $200 off of their usual price?

what is their USUAL price, and how do we establish it? perhaps they discovered last month that the 1299 price was the best price to sell at, however they wanted to sell more, and they thusly increased their pricing to official pricing and then added the sale for $200 off to bring the price back down to where they discovered the best sales #/profit ratio...

 

[zerocool84]

Are they or are they NOT offering $200 off of their usual price?

With electronics there is no usual price. Electronics prices fluctuate so much that there are very few time any electronics product will ever have a "usual price". This is not deceptive what they are doing.

 

[DasFox]

How is that deceptive marketing? They are knocking $200 off whatever price it currently is. If they raised the prices and you didn't notice not their fault.

It has nothing to do with the current pricing.

Haven't you heard the expression, can't you see the trees through the forest?

Again I'm sorry this has nothing to do with current prices. I had been visiting FactorGaming I said for a month, all the prices were $200 less.

So why would you think they'd mark them all up $200, just to lower them $200? That's so they can make the public think they are offering a deal.

HEY WOW look a $200 savings, but it's actually a con.

It's because they are hoping for those that weren't around before think that they're getting a deal now, when they're not. You're just getting the price they were before.

Ok, so you want to backfire and say, prices go up, NO sorry that's not it. LOOK for the trees through the forest, and if you can't see them, then I'm sorry you're going to get conned by the con man one day for being naive.

zerocool84, truly I do understand what you are saying, but this is not what's going on and in business and life you have to be smart enough to see when a business is playing a con and that is what they are doing.

You SIMPLY don't have prices $200 less one month, then the next month jack them up $200 and start telling people you have a $200 special going on. What a CON and anyone, I'm sorry that can't see this is really blind here...

 

[MikeMike]

With electronics there is no usual price. Electronics prices fluctuate so much that there are very few time any electronics product will ever have a "usual price". This is not deceptive what they are doing.

let the idiots think how they want...

somehow seeing trees in forests makes sense to this thread...

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

zerocool84 and MikeMike, do you guys ever watch reruns of Gilligan's Island and really believe they're going to get off the island this time? You're unbelievably naive.

 

[zerocool84]

zerocool84 and MikeMike, do you guys ever watch reruns of Gilligan's Island and really believe they're going to get off the island this time? You're unbelievably naive.

It's what kept me hooked.

 

[MikeMike]

It's what kept me hooked.

dude, me too... i swear to god one of those times... they got so close too!

 

[MikeMike]

zerocool84 and MikeMike, do you guys ever watch reruns of Gilligan's Island and really believe they're going to get off the island this time? You're unbelievably naive.

do you watch a websites prices for a month hoping to get the best price, and then when the price increases and they add a $200 off coupon bitch that its deceptive marketing?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

do you watch a websites prices for a month hoping to get the best price, and then when the price increases and they add a $200 off coupon bitch that its deceptive marketing?

Not personally, no.

 

[MikeMike]

Not personally, no.

and how do you know about Gilligans Island, or was that show based off of the daily life of all New Zealanders?