Do You Ask About Price Matching At Stores?

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  1. Cody Fousnaugh

    Cody Fousnaugh Supreme Member
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    Isn't the first time we've found a cheaper price for something online, using our iPhone, that we wanted to buy at a store.

    Yesterday, we bought a can of high quality boat wax that original price was $37 and we paid $20 due to finding a cheaper price online on our iPhone. The wax was very highly recommended by a former boat detailer.

    A year ago, we bought a nice sound bar system that was on sale. After setting it up at home, we found online a $60 cheaper price. Took the receipt back to the store, showed them our iPhone price we found and they refunded our credit card for the $60.

    So, do you ask about "Price Matching" when shopping. Some stores do it, some don't. Many stores won't take an Amazon price saying they will only take a retailer's price.
     
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    I have never asked. But once when quoted a price, I remarked, 'I thopught I saw your add and it was quite a bit lower, must have been somebody else.' The clerk said let me check, and he spent about five minutes looking through competitors ads, then said, 'Yeah, here it is, Office supply ran an ad last week on this. I'll honor that price.' That's the only time but it saved me about fifty bucks. But, I would never hold a store to the same price if it was an online price vs an inshore price.
     
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    Not sure if I have this right? You would or wouldn’t ask for lower online price? If you knew the item was priced somewhere else lower, you would or wouldn’t want the store to give you the lower price?

    There are those that really don’t care about getting something at a lower price. Wife and I would love to have there banking account!

    This was a “high end” marine store, not a discount marine store. However, it was the only store in our area that sold the recommended boat wax. They did have a sigh on their window stating “Price Matching Guaranteed”. We went for it and saved the $17. Couldn’t believe we got this “high quality” boat wax for $20.
     
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    @Cody Fousnaugh Online prices are almost always cheaper than instore prices. You generally have to add freight to online prices but the tendency these days may be shipping is free. You may or may not have to add a sales tax to the online price. The store has to if the state has a sales tax. but the main reason I never asked is I don't think to asked. On small items I wouldn't bother. Everybody has to make a living.
     
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    My wife’s response to your last sentence......”not on me”. I totally agree!
     
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    Hey, everybody to their own cup of tea.
     
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    The "price matching" concept has sort of "made the rounds" here over the past few years. Wal-Mart did it for quite some time, and we appreciated that because Walgreens ad items often were bought at Wal-Mart, simply because it was much closer and convenient to us than Walgreens. Wal-Mart has since discontinued the practice.
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