doorbuster sales

[Dutch445]

3 weeks ago i see a walmart banner online that has a panasonic
plasma 46" tv at wally world for a good price (from what i could see)
so i bought it, seemed like the skilled sales help there didn't really know much about plasma or hz etc. but it's been a good tv, i like it, it's the right size for us.
so sunday, i see they have it on sale, a rollback price, for $100 less than i paid. i called customer service at the store, and ask their refund policy, and they say it's 90 days. bring it in with the reciept, and they inspect the merchandise blah blah blah. so i ask about a price adjustment since the price 3 weeks ago was a "doorbuster" price, and now it's $100 less. they say that i'm out of their 7 day price adjust window.
so i go back to talking about a refund, and while i'm there, maybe i'll buy another one for the lower price, and she mentions something about taking the floor model or something like that.
am i wrong to think that they are not being very fair with this? it's not like it was a black friday sale, and only good till noon friday, or a limited time sale, it was a price rollback. (at least that's what the price tag said)

 

[Soundguy]

they aren't the only store that does that. i bought the wife a netbook on black friday.. the unit was on sale 20$ cheaper than advertised... I went back yesterday to get one for myself.. and it was 50$ cheaper than advertised.. same model.. same color.. etc. go figure... an no.. no price matches.. it's not worth the 30$ for me to pack her's up.. remove the software I've installed, and get another, and reinstall all that software..

soundguy

 

[tallyho8]

I'll probably draw some flak from this but I think the store is fair. Prices on technology items are always dropping. The TV you bought was probably $1000 more a couple of years ago.

A retailer may buy a TV for $600 and sell it on sale for $700. When he replaces his stock the next month, the TV may have dropped in price and he pays $400 for it and sells it for $500.

Why should he reduce the price of the TV he sold you last month to a price less than what it cost him? If the price of his TVs went up this month should he go back to you and claim that you owe him more for the one you bought last month?

I wish we could do this with gasoline. Sometimes I buy a tankful for $60 and the next day I could fill it for $50.

 

[Dutch445]

yea, i hear ya. it's just the whole principal of it, thinking
i bought it at a great price, then it's less 3 weeks later.

but it is a great tv.

 

[brin]

yea, i hear ya. it's just the whole principal of it, thinking
i bought it at a great price, then it's less 3 weeks later.

but it is a great tv.

OK - OK - Let me make you feel better..5 yrs. ago the Mrs. and I paid $3.200.00 for a 42 in.Panasonic Plasma TV at Best Buy and bought their 3 yr. protection plan for another $300.00...Obviously we never used the warranty..it is a great TV but just how sick do you think we are to see that we could get the same TV now for about $600.00...that was back when Plasma first came out. I remember the first VCR I bought was $850.00 ....I need to stop being the first to buy...LOL - Feel better now ?

 

[jinman]

Some days you get the bear and other days the bear gets you. If it was a good price when you bought it, it's still a good price today. Like Soundguy, it ain't worth repacking and taking back for the $100 off. We just bought a Samsung 46" 1080p, 120 Hz, LCD TV with a picture so good that I'm afraid those football players on the sideline may hear me if I scream at them too loudly. I will not be putting myself through a bunch of grief by looking at prices after Christmas. I know prices will drop, but my picture will still be good enough to put a smile on my face.

 

[2manyrocks]

Maybe the real question is whether it will last or fail. I bought a TV last year during one of the seasonal sales that fortunately failed within the store's 90 day return policy and I got my $ back. Sometimes I wonder if the mfgs crank these things out for the sales so fast that the quality control isn't there.

 

[brin]

Some days you get the bear and other days the bear gets you. If it was a good price when you bought it, it's still a good price today. Like Soundguy, it ain't worth repacking and taking back for the $100 off. We just bought a Samsung 46" 1080p, 120 Hz, LCD TV with a picture so good that I'm afraid those football players on the sideline may hear me if I scream at them too loudly. I will not be putting myself through a bunch of grief by looking at prices after Christmas. I know prices will drop, but my picture will still be good enough to put a smile on my face.

Jim...the bear ate me a few times but as you say sometimes we eat the bear and we have had 5 yrs. of great TV with no problems..and there have been other times where I came out on top...so it all probably evens out in the end.

 

[heehaw]

tallyho8, i agree with you: i think walmart has ruined people about taking things back: i know its hard to swallow sometime, but i figure make the best deal you can an then live with it. kinda like buying a new truck, to find out your neighbor just bought the same truck, from the same place for several K less...heartbreaking but thats what happens sometime.
heehaw

 

[Dutch445]

We just bought a Samsung 46" 1080p, 120 Hz, LCD TV with a picture so good that I'm afraid those football players on the sideline may hear me if I scream at them too loudly.

boy, isn't that the truth. this is our first new tv in over 5 years,
have had a small flat screen on the computer, but not 46" !!
the picture sure is great.

now about that surround stuff.............

 

[2manyrocks]

Just go buy a pair of Polk Audio R15's and a yamaha powered sub woofer or a pair of paradigm studio monitors and a powered sub.

 

[OKnewguy]

OK - OK - Let me make you feel better..5 yrs. ago the Mrs. and I paid $3.200.00 for a 42 in.Panasonic Plasma TV at Best Buy and bought their 3 yr. protection plan for another $300.00...Obviously we never used the warranty..it is a great TV but just how sick do you think we are to see that we could get the same TV now for about $600.00...that was back when Plasma first came out. I remember the first VCR I bought was $850.00 ....I need to stop being the first to buy...LOL - Feel better now ?

Back in 98 or 99 I installed a plasma at Williams Telecommunications headquarters in Tulsa. It was a professional level unit (they were out professionally for a long time, before they were available to the consumer). This plasma was 32" and cost over $30,000 at the time. It was used in their lobby area for the big whigs. The contract was multimillion dollars. Anyway, these things took awhile to trickle down and now they are very reasonable.
BTW, maybe this is why Williams went down!
Dave

 

[2manyrocks]

Next time I have to read a company's K-1 report, I will be sure to check their spending on hi tech TVs.

 

[dmccarty]

Years ago we bought one of the all in one printers that uses ink. It works fine for what we wanted to do but then the kids started doing school projects and chewing through ink aka money. We are going though about $200 a year in ink!

Last summer I started looking at laser printers due to a thread here on TBN and decided to get a Brother printer. We waited until now to get a better price since the kids were not using the printer much over the summer. We ended up buying a printer that was between $230-250 depending on where you bought it for $75 off. The printer will run 8,000 page before needing new toner so that should last us for a few years. For less than what we have been paying for in ink we got a printer that will or should last for years. And it duplexes, works on Ethernet or wireless and does 32 ppm.

Still hurt paying for it.

Dell is having sales on TVs. My price point is when a 60-65ish inch DLP TV goes under $1,000 I might buy one. They have a 65 inch DLP for $1,000 but we don't have the money. Maybe next year. Sure does look nice though.

We have spent too much money this XMAS buying stuff we needed like a monitor for a laptop whose screen no longer works but is not worth repairing and the before mentioned printer. I am spoiling the kids with an XBOX which was an extravagance but I got $50 off. And it will work well with the new monitor.

Course it would look even better on a 65 inch TV!

MAYBE next year.

Later,
Dan

 

[WarrenF]

3 weeks ago i see a walmart banner online that has a panasonic
plasma 46" tv at wally world for a good price (from what i could see)
so i bought it, seemed like the skilled sales help there didn't really know much about plasma or hz etc. but it's been a good tv, i like it, it's the right size for us.
so sunday, i see they have it on sale, a rollback price, for $100 less than i paid. i called customer service at the store, and ask their refund policy, and they say it's 90 days. bring it in with the reciept, and they inspect the merchandise blah blah blah. so i ask about a price adjustment since the price 3 weeks ago was a "doorbuster" price, and now it's $100 less. they say that i'm out of their 7 day price adjust window.
so i go back to talking about a refund, and while i'm there, maybe i'll buy another one for the lower price, and she mentions something about taking the floor model or something like that.
am i wrong to think that they are not being very fair with this? it's not like it was a black friday sale, and only good till noon friday, or a limited time sale, it was a price rollback. (at least that's what the price tag said)

Honestly think about it this way. Lets say you have a tractor that you want to sell. You put a price of $4,000 on it, and some person stops and wants to buy your tractor. They bring you the money, and you load it up and the deal is done. Three weeks later they show up at your home, with the tractor loaded on the trailer. It has been used during that time, but they tell you they found a deal on the "same tractor" for only $3,000. So now they want you to refund their money, and take the tractor back.