We Are NOT The Fleamarket!

[Mike Taylor]

Dear Sir,

The item you were looking at, a discontinued portable DVD player missing the remote and power supply, was already marked down $50 from its ORIGINAL retail price. That price is already LOWER than what I would have paid for it as an employee of the Big Yellow Price Tag. Your offer of $50 has been refused by 3 sales associates and 1 manager. We do not haggle. We do not care that the former CEO of the company is your next door neighbor. Threatening to tattle on us to him does you no good. HE'S the guy who signed off on the company policy that we were all following when we told you "NO."

Much love,

Mike

[ShootMePlease]

Hahahahaha.

I love it when a customer tries to haggle on open box or EOL items. And then threatens to go elsewhere or call the CEO, who's a close personal friend of theirs. Have fun with that, Bozo

[Mike Taylor]

Well, the former CEO does live north of us, so it's a real possibility he does know the SC. Still won't do any good, though.

[ShootMePlease]

Hey Brad !!

I need some help with a Blu-Ray player discount. Any chance you could help a guy out ?

[Plaidman]

I'm now curious as to what the price is... I'd laugh if it's 55 dollars. But I would laugh harder, if the price is 25 dollars, and he wants to pay twice that much.


I likely would have just told him "hey, bring in the current CEO and if he says so, then yeah. I'll do it"


Or my personal fave, which has worked a few times though only on drunks.

When I had drunks begging me for beer when I legally can't for their drunkness, or pass legal hours, I offer a coin flip. Best 5/7. Heads I win, tails they lose.

You be shocked that I had that work more then once, and they all said "well damn, that... that was a fair chance and it didnt work. No beer here... to the next store!"

[Mike Taylor]

Final price was $99.99 as-is.

Douchebag wound up buying the $149 replacement for that model instead.

[bainsidhe]

Haggling aside, what impact would the former CEO have on the way you do business? That's like threatening to tattle to your manicurist.

[Argabarga]

Eh, your manicurist may still have some pull, but your manicurist's next-door neighbor's brother in law? Now THEREs someone who can fix it!

[ShootMePlease]

I don't care if you get Anderson, Dunn and BB the Belligerent Beagle.

You're not getting a discount on an already discounted item

[Sapphire Silk]

Final price was $99.99 as-is.

Douchebag wound up buying the $149 replacement for that model instead.

I really can't blame him for trying. Buy something as is, and if there's a problem you are screwed; no returns. Maybe a warranty . . . maybe.

It does not hurt to ask; if the item has been sitting long enough, some managers will approve such sales.

But if told no, then one should drop it and move on.

I've done this several times successfully and gotten some good bargains.

[MrsEclipse]

I don't care if you get Anderson, Dunn and BB the Belligerent Beagle.

You're not getting a discount on an already discounted item

Does the BB stand for Belligerent Beagle?

[Mike Taylor]

Does the BB stand for Belligerent Beagle?

Yep. BB is an homage to (blatant knock-off of) a certain other annoying dog puppet. He shows up in videos for quarterly meetings-- usually as a target of abuse by others in the video.