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For fuck’s sake, either you accept PayPal or you don’t. What kind of shady behind-the-curtains bullshit are you trying to pull?
The API for the PayPal checkout workflow is too complicated for us, but one of us knows how to manually type in the order details to send you an invoice.
They’ll probably send you the paypal friends link, which you can’t use for business purposes lol
Hahahaha, yep
I buy a lot of things for work and if I can find a company that has the price listed I go with them over the one that makes me contact sales for a quote almost every time
Well this one could be cheaper, but how could I even know, the price isn’t listed.
It’s not cheaper, it costs me time.
Absolutely! And having to tolerate annoying and intrusive sales people
Avoiding those are priceless
This could be a great use for a voice AI chat bot connected to your phone line. Prompt it with something like,
“You’re on a phone call to [Widgets Inc] to get a price quote for a [box of premium widgets]. You’ll probably be put on hold to speak with the next available sales representative. Just wait until you get a person on the line. Then, ask for the price and immediately start negotiating for a better price. Use whatever strategy you want but never agree to whatever price they offer. Keep coming up with more ridiculous reasons that they should give you an even better price.”
Then dial the phone, turn it over to the chat bot, and wander off to go do more important things.
I feel like the new samsung already has this feature
It’s more about not rewarding their disrespect and greed. Instead rewarding the company being open and upfront and not wasting my time
If it were cheaper, the price would be listed
If you have to ask for a price, it ain’t cheap.
If I have to ask for a price, I ain’t bothering
I do the same in stores. If there’s no prices listed I’ll just walk away. I absolutely hate surprises at the register.
I “walk away” online as well.
“Sign in to get price”.
Guess what, it’s never a mind blowing low price. It’s like $5.00 less than normal. Hidden prices are never a deal.Costco online is the only exception to this, for me. You need a paid account to shop there anyway, so I’m willing to jump through that hoop most of the time. It’s still a pain, and I’ve definitely closed the tab a few times on Costco when I was pretty sure I was getting a better deal somewhere else.
There actually can be bs from a manufacturer where a site cannot list an item below their MSRP so in order to do a sale they have to do the bs like “add to cart to see price” or making you sign in. Sure sometimes it’s not an amazing deal but it can often be the lowest price you can find an item because they aren’t allowed to advertise a price that low.
Edit: See comment below to learn about MAP “minimum advertised price” which is different from MSRP “manufacturer suggested retail price” leaving my above comment alone with its inaccuracy so that the below comment continues to make sense and you can learn as I did.
MAP (minimum advertised price) is often different from MSRP, but otherwise this comment is correct.
In some industries, like RVs or auto parts, the vast majority of products have a MAP. The manufacturers also have bots that scan the internet for MAP violations, and they’ll blacklist a vendor if they don’t fix the price within a day or two. (Which is really annoying when there’s a false positive and I get blamed for it.)
I think it’s partly so high volume vendors can’t put smaller vendors out of business by just reducing their margins as much as possible, and it’s partly because the manufacturer doesn’t want their products to look like they’re really cheap. Customers feel better about finding a “great deal” on an “expensive” product.
No price, no sale. I tell myself that whenever I have to walk away from a product that didn’t have a listed price.
What sort of places do this?
Thankfully not too many, Often I’ll find some things are marked but not everything in smaller stores like some grocery, variety stores, second hand shops etc.
Even worse: when you have to call to cancel a subscription.
I subscribed online, I should be able to cancel online.
Of course, it’s also hidden deep in the terms of service that you can’t cancel online. They know what they’re doing.
