I admit it, I stalled on getting a new laptop for months. My wife was fed up with the process, but I can be pretty anal, and refuse to take anything but the best deal. I am after all, the DEAL MESSIAH.
With all that aside, I’d been stalking a toshiba satellite laptop for weeks on various online retailers, including amazon.com, and noticed a price drop of $100 there. I hemmed and hawed over it, and decided to “buy it tomorrow” as there was a good college football game about to start.
Naturally, when I went back the next day, the $100 discount had disappeared, and the laptop was back up to full price. Crap. I tried calling amazon and went through a few layers of management, only to be denied. I worked the old:
I thought I bought it but the transaction must have been messed up on your website, hustle. They weren’t biting, so I sat back and waited.
I suspected that Amazon jacked the price up $100 to poach a few last minute holiday shoppers, so I sat back and waited. Sure enough, 3 days later, the price dropped back down $100 to the previous discount price. Amazon had their own hustle going, and I approve. I just know enough to not get caught in it. Now you do too.
That didn’t stop me from calling when I purchased, and asking one of their sales reps for a one time discount, as they had messed up my transaction a few days earlier. He was happy to comply and gave me $10 off, which payed for my expedited shipping.
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