So if you can get it cheaper at some other store, then GO THERE!

[MadMike]

I used to get that all the time at my one job. Not all of them were nasty about it, but I never understood what they thought I could do about it, or why I'd even care. Like most of the people who worked there, I was only there until I found something better anyway.

[jedifarfy]

aack! I hate that!

It's cheaper on your website/Amazon/Borders/Sam's Club/Walmart/Target/wherever.

THEN GO THERE!! I DON'T CARE!! I STILL GET PAID EITHER WAY!!

wow. sorry. i think you hit a nerve

EVERY DAY! My store is right next to a Target and we're in the land of Amazon. Want it cheaper? GO THERE! Explaining it is too hard. BTW, as soon as someone says "Borders" or "Amazon", I no longer bother helping them. They obviously had their mind made up BEFORE they came to my store.

[Camry178]

Hell, I can get that cheaper at such & such a place!!"

Everytime a SC gives me that line I give them directions to the "cheaper" place...Sometimes it's good to be the manager, tee hee...

[SCSlave]

OMG we get this a lot. People will bring in ads from Sprint/Verizon....some other cellular carrier and say "Well they have 900 minutes for $19.99!!** Can't you match that??" Um..no. Their coverage area is way smaller than ours...is why it's so much cheaper. Stupid.


**actual prices may vary, prices made up for dramatic purposes**

[sarahj]

I actually get this about other franchises... "The Maccas out in Timbuktu has a $5 meal deal! Why can't I get it here?!" Maybe it's because we don't need the extra business. "I want two cheeseburgers for $2.50." Um, no. Again, only in the middle of nowhere can you get that deal. "Everything here's more expensive than in Timbuktu!" Yeah, try 10 cents extra for some items.

By 'Timbuktu' what I mean is some random suburb at least an hour or two away, that I probably haven't even heard of.

Don't even get me started on people who order promotional items from years past, or even regular menu items that are blacked out on our boards because we don't have them. Like frozen coke (slurpees). You scanned the menu boards. You looked around the front area. You didn't see a big slurpee machine. There are like three 7-11's on our block; why'd you come wait in a long line at Maccas if that's all you wanted?

Convo from last weekend, about 3 or 4am:
Me: me.
SC: sucky (confused) customer.

SC: I'll have a veggie burger.
Me: Sorry, we don't have a veggie burger. But we can make any burger without the meat.
SC: I'm sure I've had a veggie burger here before.
Me: It was a promotional item over a year ago. We no longer have it on our menu.
SC: But I want a veggie burger.
Me: We don't have one.
SC: Okay, I'll have a cheeseburger, but I'm sure I've had a veggie burger here before.

You know how to get something vegetarian? Go to Subway and pick exactly what you want in a roll! It's right next to 7-11!

If it's cheaper elsewhere, go there. If you want to support a particular store cos they have good service (or are just awesome), do it silently.

[powerboy]

In my shop, we have had a few that will want a price match. Hell, they are being stupid, because we are cheaper then Walmart, Target, Amazon, Best Buy. We are high on one item, and that is just because that is the price that the company told us to sell it for. If you want it cheaper, go to Ebay, for a freakin BootLeg of it

[DesignFox]

We convinced the manager to do it, but he didn't realize that we were buying a ton of stuff. Basically the markdown that was given was over $150 of stuff. The manager got upset and told us that he wouldn't have matched his own company's prices if he had known how much we were getting.

Well, not for nothing, he agreed to do it, so he has no right letting you know that he is now upset. Secondly, he could have asked how much you were buying BEFORE agreeing to the discount. Thirdly, from what I've noticed, the managers generally prefer to give you the discount if you are buying more rather than less...so that's weird.

[Noelegy]

I worked as seasonal (Christmas) help at a department store several years ago. It was one of the anchor stores in the mall. A woman came in with an ad from one of the other big stores, showing me a sale item: a musical Christmas necktie. In her other hand she had a necktie from our store. She wanted to know if we would match the price. We did not have a policy of matching prices, and the tie wasn't on sale at our store, so I apologized and told her no, we couldn't do that.

She got stuck on that point. "But I can get it for $______ at [BigStore]!" I explained that she was certainly free to shop there.

"But don't you want my money?" I told her of course we wanted her business, but I still couldn't change the price.

What I really wanted to say was "Look, lady, HOW BAD do you need a FREAKING MUSICAL NECKTIE?!?"

But I'm only evil on the inside...