Author Topic: Just Want To Talk About On Line Retailers  (Read 2484 times)

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Just Want To Talk About On Line Retailers
« on: March 09, 2007, 06:13:42 AM »
Yesterday I made a post about some binoculars and a spotting scope that Cabelas had on sale. After I made the post I found out that the information they had on their website was incorrect, they showed a 15X45X50 spotting scope when actually it was a 20X50 fixed power scope and a pair of Bushnell 10-42 binoculars for $69.88 which to me seemed like a pretty good deal.

After doing a little research I found that they had four different item numbers for the same binoculars and scope combo. What got me was that they had three different prices for the same thing, $79.99, $69.88 and 59.99. All of the prices were sale prices, the original coast was $99.99. and all of the item numbers were valid at the same time. Depending on the item number you found you could pay $80.00 down to $60.00 for the same thing and if you were unlucky and found the number with the higher price they would not tell you that the item could be bought for $20.00 less if you used a different number.

Why do they have so many different numbers and prices for the same item ? If you happen to use the number with the higher price why don't they tell you that you can buy it for less money if you use a different item number ? This just sort of bothers me.

Anyway, I bought the scope - binocular combo for $59.99, the price of the binoculars alone was around $90.00. The item number that you can buy them for $59.99 is 7CC-712412 if anyone is interested.

Bill

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Re: Just Want To Talk About On Line Retailers
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2007, 10:50:49 AM »
Bill

It is called Marketing... Yes and it is not very nice how they do it either. They are betting on people who do not do there homework to fall into there marketing trap.. Cabelas is a big chain and probably a corporation to boot. They pay thousands of dollars a year and hire advertizing and marketing abencies just to do these kind of thing... LOL
I really have not noticed it with the smaller guys who really are pretty good about being straight forward with there sale prices, etc.

Go shopping with your wife on a Saturday and you will see the same stuff going on in major department stores... hehe

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Re: Just Want To Talk About On Line Retailers
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2007, 11:41:58 AM »
I will take your word about the wife's shopping experiences, I don't think I could keep up with my wife when she goes shopping.

I will have to say that she is very good when it comes to finding bargains. She will not even look at something unless it is marked down from $100.00 to at least $4.95.

Bill