Morons like you are the reason vendors have to charge more for items. If you don't want something, don't order it. digim0rtal
Digim0rtal, ya know... "generally" (And I'll use that word loosely) I would tend to agree with your sentiment. In fact - I might even say you have a good intention there. But you preface your assertion with "Moron" and then make a generally incorrect statement regarding supply and demand economics that any first year corporate business acolyte would dismiss. Calling me a Moron without knowing me is simply not nice. I do not know you, nor have I followed any of your threads - so I do not think it would be nice or appropriate for me to state that you are a socially challenged, insecure, self-impressed prick of questionable integrity. I think you would agree that I have no right to call you that.
Regarding the beforementioned economics issue. "Vendors" charge appropriate for their cost of doing business - which in some circumstances involve "restocking fees", "value added" services and "Volume appreciation" cost leveraging. I don't think it reasonable to provide a lesson of business strategy here, but note: Businesses such as CompUSA and Circuit City impose a 15% re-stocking fee on returned non-defective computer equipment - and often re-stock that "opened item" at a discounted price. This fee covers their "Cost of doing business" without price gouging the consumer. Businesses similar in model to Best Buy, cost leverage their re-stocking overhead through sheer product volume and value added services. They keep prices low and count on volume and added service to supply the graft for their cost of doing business. The relatively "No Hassle" Return Policy from Best Buy is actually one of the major factors as to why Best Buy edges out Circuit City and CompUSA on similar product. They count on the fact that most people keep what they buy - and they can absorb the cost of doing business without penalizing the consumer.
If returning non-defective product were really that big of an issue for a Retailer like Best Buy - you'd not be allowed to return a product at the Customer Service counter when the clerk asks you the reason for your return and you say "uh, it didn't perform to my expectations" or "I purchased two to decide which brand provided the best performance" or even "I just decided I didn't need it". Believe me, if they cared as much about the returns as you felt it necessary to label me a moron for, Return policies would bear that out. They don't.
That said, Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) is what Retailers base Retail Price "Range" on. Profit and margins regard what they buy it for, what they can get for it. As mentioned above, the cost of doing business is handled in different ways - but for the big retailers, none of those ways DIRECTLY impact the price of commodity product to the consumer in relation to re-stocking expense.
Certainly, it costs to take returns. However, there are more ways to levy the cost of doing business than simply raising retail prices. And obviously there are issues not addressed in the above scenarios. But please, is it too much to ask for some intelligence in posting? Come on now...
Agreed. I am SO tired of jerks who buy items with no intention of keeping them. SOMEBODY has to pay for that crap - which usually means the rest of us. *hoping your kids learn their ethics OUTSIDE the home* Rio Rebel
"SOMEBODY" is already referenced in the above statement, and it does not mean "the rest of us". Really guys, I would tend to blow the same horn as you are if I had to lie to return a product, but I don't. If I had to make something up to push the return through or something. otherwise reference first rebuttal. Oh, and you've never bought an "Open Box" item and bragged that you got it for % less and it works great!? Mabye you haven't, but most have.
Responding to the "kids learning ethics OUTSIDE of home" ignorance. I think, if you read again - you see that I intended to keep one card, then both, then finally returned both having thought that the new expenses would be better applied toward FAMILY than my own self indulgent computer hobby.
*hoping your kids learn their ethics OUTSIDE the home*
I'm in a bad mood today, so I'll go you one step further, "I hope you don't have kids, period."
some people just got too much money Soulkeeper
I downright agree. Some people have too much money. But most people who gripe about people who have money don't go a step further and differentiate whether or not someone has earned their money (sh*t, as if you have a right to say what someone else does with their hard earned money). And you say it with such a "Robin Hood-ish" flair - as though you'd be sharing the wealth with everyone else if you had it.
For the record, I mowed lawns as I kiddie, flipped burgers as a teen, launched Tomohawk Missiles in the Gulf War, performed assembly tasks as a manufacturing technician working my way up to Production Manager, changed career fields and started at square one in the IT Field, put myself through Night School and have now achieved a position as a Systems Administrator for a Medical Device company. The Dot.com crash has thinned out my field and compensation so there's no dissillusionment about lofty pay grades and bonuses - it's a job. I have a budget. As for the extra computers I have, most of them are Corporate items that have extended their lifecycle and or are for personal AND Career use - meaning I also perform Corporate work at home.
if I also repair PC's on the side to pay for my toys and irresponsible pleasures in life, then so be it - it's none of your Damn business to assume your sorry position in life gives you the right to bitch at me for achieving something that you could achieve too, with some hard work.
There, big sigh... My wife says this will fall on deaf ears. Ahh, that's alright though. It's almost theraputic.
Thanks for the inspiration!
-Sketcher