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Jan 27, 2008 | 06:17 PM

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I would have bought all that I could and then start slanging them on ebay

My ethics are lax when it comes to sticking it to corp. america

Jan 27, 2008 | 06:21 PM

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What's the item anyways!?

Jan 27, 2008 | 06:27 PM

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was the item a candy bar? was it twix? you paid too much.

Jan 27, 2008 | 06:41 PM

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Please ignore this thread.

Do'h!! I misread the price, you need 4 to complete the set, 4x100 = 400

Nothing to see hear folks, keep moving...

Jan 27, 2008 | 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by NW OBS

If it's marked, it MUST be sold at that price by law :-) They can fix the next one!

not really.

the law is, whatever the price is agreed upon by the seller and buyer, then that is what must be used.

now, it is often the policy of the store to let the customer purchase an item that the price tag says.

but if the store says no, then it doesnt have to sell the item at the incorrect marked price.

often, the bigger the store, the more their pricing policy is better for the benefit of the customer.

Jan 27, 2008 | 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by subie OCD

Do'h!! I misread the price, you need 4 to complete the set, 4x100 = 400

Nothing to see hear folks, keep moving...

Jan 27, 2008 | 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by subie OCD

Do'h!! I misread the price, you need 4 to complete the set, 4x100 = 400

Nothing to see hear folks, keep moving...

Jan 27, 2008 | 07:59 PM

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Reminds me of this.. sometimes at a drive thru I give them $5 for my food, and sometimes you get change for a $20 back. I don't say anything cause how many times have you not gotten all your food? or the wrong food?

You probably pay so much more than you have to so many times, what's wrong with paying only a quarter of the cost of something once in awhile?

Jan 28, 2008 | 06:35 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ShiroStee

Sooner you buy it at that price, the sooner the store realize and fixes their error.

You're doing the store a favor.

haha +1
It's the store's fault so **** em

Quote:

Originally Posted by kYLEMtnCRUZr

yeah this happens all the time.

As long as its not a ma and pa shop, and its a big corporation which it most likely is, do it!

Yeah I wouldn't do it to a mom & pop shop since they really depend on good business. But if it's a big corp. then screw they make a crap load of money anyways

Personally I'd buy it. It's their fault they mislabeled it.

Jan 28, 2008 | 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by MyNikonLens

dude, are you serious? is it ethical for companies to make so much profit on things when they mark them up so high? look at chevron and mobile? do you have any idea how much profit they made last year when we got screwed? do you know why macys has a 70-90% off sale? because they mark the damn products 5000%.

I always tell that to my girlfriend when shes like "macy's is having 50% off all jewelry" I tell her "shows you what their mark up is like, because you know they still aren't loosing money

Jan 28, 2008 | 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by pwnx0rz

purchase it for the price it took to create the product. if a $400 product only took $75 to make it, the rest of the price is for 1) profit 2) commercials, advertising 3) transportation and so on. its ethical to purchase the price that is listed, but not ethical for the sellers to give a unfair price.

cost to make the item or cost for the retail to get the item? You also have to figure in the stores overhead, although for most online places renting a warehouse is pretty cheap compared to a staffed retail front.

many items go from the manufacture to a distributor (theres one profit) and then from the distributor to the retailer (another profit) and then from the retailer to the consumer (3rd profit) so the retailer even is getting it for more than it takes to create it