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throwaway420 said:
While I agree a small gesture is always welcome, people expecting R250+ in vouchers are just crazy.
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Sure - I agree - I just used a figure from TL. Any gesture would be better plus they would get a future sale out of store credit given out
 
I would give you all a R50 voucher if you spend more than R500 .... :twisted:
but i don't run their business..
 
The gall of people is astonishing...what have you lost that you expect vouchers to make up for? Some of you probably post in other threads about the entitled attitudes of others and don't even see the irony.
 
Neoprod said:
The gall of people is astonishing...what have you lost that you expect vouchers to make up for? Some of you probably post in other threads about the entitled attitudes of others and don't even see the irony.
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I'm in business. If I underquoted I would honour it, even if I was making a loss. Word of mouth makes or breaks in this town...

Obviously it would only happen on 1 transaction but still..... Hence just cancelling and refunding in this case does not help the Loot brand...
 
FlashSA said:
I'm in business. If I underquoted I would honour it, even if I was making a loss. Word of mouth makes or breaks in this town...

Obviously it would only happen on 1 transaction but still..... Hence just cancelling and refunding in this case does not help the Loot brand...
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I agree with this standpoint.
Wallmart had a price match situation where they sold ps4's for as cheap as 90$, and they stuck to their word until they sorted it out.

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FlashSA said:
I'm in business. If I underquoted I would honour it, even if I was making a loss. Word of mouth makes or breaks in this town...

Obviously it would only happen on 1 transaction but still..... Hence just cancelling and refunding in this case does not help the Loot brand...
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I see a distinction between responding to a single request for a quote versus an auto-generated offer on a website.
 
samrai.jck said:
I agree with this standpoint.
Wallmart had a price match situation where they sold ps4's for as cheap as 90$, and they stuck to their word until they sorted it out.

linky
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A price match scam is not a reasonable comparison to an error in pricing. Nor is comparing a company with the cost efficiencies \ scale of a Walmart to Loot (Walmart could eat whatever they lost on the PS4 scams many times over and not blink).

Be that as it may, I hold to my opinion that anyone expecting a hand-out for an obvious error is displaying the same grasping, entitled behaviour we condemn in other social situations. That's my opinion, of course...feel free to go about your begging as you see fit.

ps. Loot, erm...I hope I've done enough to get a little voucher thrown my way? :whistle:

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Hi everyone. Ive got my porsche for sale for R10000. Oops i mean R1000000. So sorry. Can i offer you a R20 000 voucher for the mistake? El cheapo! Where in the universe do you buy a drive at that discounted price?
 
MerlinsArrow said:
Hi everyone. Ive got my porsche for sale for R10000. Oops i mean R1000000. So sorry. Can i offer you a R20 000 voucher for the mistake? El cheapo! Where in the universe do you buy a drive at that discounted price?
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Ive bought items that retailed for over 4k on special at 1k. So sometimes you can get "unbelievable" deals...
 
People can shout and moan all they want but the CPA deals with this clearly. If the price is a clear and obvious error the business does not have to honour it. We are pretty well protected as consumers in this country, I would think letting the businesses have some protection would not be too much to ask.
 
FlashSA said:
I'm in business. If I underquoted I would honour it, even if I was making a loss. Word of mouth makes or breaks in this town...

Obviously it would only happen on 1 transaction but still..... Hence just cancelling and refunding in this case does not help the Loot brand...
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It won't affect the loot brand, cheap skates complain now but they will still buy from loot if they are cheaper than other stores; they are the people very least likely to go buy something at another store while it is cheaper at loot.
 
rubber_otter said:
I am starting to hate it wen companies get away with **** like this. It's starting to seem like a marketing ploy.

"Awwww damn. We dun ****ed up again. Lets drive traffic to our site and just cancel the orders we don't like because we out up the wrong pricing"
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You need a reality check. You sound like the low class citizens of this country with the same sense of entitlement after a company with multiple employees uploading 1000s of products makes a mistake. Takealot and Raru have a few million items in their catalogue, not sure about Loot. But they don't need to even by law (CPA) honour that mistake. They amended the problem in a reasonable amount of time and changed the price offering refunds.

FlashSA said:
I didn't order because I knew it was an error. BUT: When I experienced something similar at Takealot, they cancelled the order, apologised and then refunded along with an extra R250 voucher credit to my account as a gesture of goodwill. THAT is how business is done and what I would do in my retail business.

Use it.. don't use it...
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I think this is a better suggestion. We can't expect a company that possibly doesn't have hundreds of millions of Rand funding to "take a knock" of like R4k per unit.

If 50 drives were ordered that would be R200k for a very understandable mistake. So this sounds like a much more considerate idea.
 
Ahead of the Google Event the Nexus 6 prices have dropped to $349 on Amazon. Even cheaper on ebay.
 
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