Price mistake...ethics?

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I have seen some good prices and some bad prices on various items at Cabelas and other stores. Just buy the gun. If you do any amount of business at Cabelas they you have given them the $100 is other items that they make a higher margin of profit on. Consider this one small victory for the consumer.

Odd's are, if they were not sure what to put on it for a price, they looked it up after you were gone. If they didn't, then you are the only one worrying about it.

Leroy
 
I applaud your concern for the retailer but the price is the price.

I do not see buying this gun at the price marked as a SIN...

If it had been priced and the price was $299.00 when you looked at it would you have bought it? If so what would you have thought...Man I really got a great deal....

I agree with an earlier poster...you are thinking too hard!

I know I have made bad purchase decisions in my life and paid too much for stuff. If you want it go buy it.
 
Another thing...if you had changed the price...or tore off the price in order to see if you could fool someone and get a better price THEN I would say you have an issue but just paying the price that is marked?

AND DO NOT FORGET...those guys that marked the gun that price...they are paid to do so...so do not assume....
 
Go back and buy it for the tag price.

As soon as they hand it to you, load it on the spot and proceed to tell them that now you want the contents of their cash register too.






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In my state the advertised price on the shelf is pretty much what you have to sell it for. You can get into legal trouble if the price you pay is more then whats posted on the shelf.
 
Sorry, Moose - but IMO yer wrong. I don't think G*d cares how big a store is - stealing is stealing, no matter how you try to justify it - and ultimately, you will be explaining it to Him.
THAT is my guiding principle - can I explain it to the One without sin?
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Oh for the love of Jiminy Cricket! :rolleyes:

This isn't stealing. If he put the Walker Colt under his jacket and walked out without paying, that's stealing.

Confirming that the listed price is indeed the listed price not once but twice is giving the store the opportunity to correct its perceived pricing mistake. If the OP wants to, talking to management is a good idea. If they say that's the price, what should the OP do, call Cabelas corporate HQ and ask what the price is?

As for explaining it to the "One" I think the Obamessiah would simply tell you that the black powder replica causes anguish in inner cities every night and that each granule of black powder must have the name, address, and biometric data of the owner encoded on it.
 
Matt J-2: "Going back a few posts...What paperwork?"

Some businesses will write a detailed receipt for everything.

And I believe some states require paperwork for blackpowder guns. None I've ever lived in.
 
Ahh, right. Usually I make it a point to consider other states cause we ain't all the same, just slipped my mind this time.

As they say, 'my bad'.
 
Price is price. It's not like God says the value of that gun is $399. A gun is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I don't go to WalMart and say hey I see you've priced this for $100, but so-and-so is selling it for $150. Should I pay the difference? What they price it is what they price it.
 
The only real way to get an answer for this is to call the manager of the Cabelas and ask him or her.
 
I'm sure if you call the manager and make a big enough stink over it, that they would sell it to you for the higher price. I wouldn't be so inclined to make that extra effort.

They mark it at a certain price, you buy at that price and its a done deal. Capitalism works.
 
How is buying it at their mistake any different from haggling them down? its their decision what the price is, and its only unethical if you mislead them or commit fraud like changing the tag yourself. if you still feel guilty, then drop the $100 savings into a charity box on your way out.
 
I once had a clerk at a busy bbq takeout accidentally charge my entire order to the woman ahead of me. We had been chatting while waiting for our food, and the clerk assumed we were together. When my food was ready, I tried to pay for it; that's when I learned what happened. I offered to pay; clerk said he couldn't take the money. I suggested he adjust the sale amount applied the previous customer's credit card; he said he couldn't do it without the credit card and she'd already left. I offered to leave my name & number so i could pay later if the previous customer came back to complain about being overcharged; clerk couldn't be bothered. I walked out with about $30 worth of bbq for free. I didn't feel guilty because I did my best to pay for it.

If you twice point out that the price is wrong, and the clerks say no, it's right, well, there's nothing much you can do. You did right. Now you can follow your conscience about buying the item, whichever way it leads you.

However, I disagree with those who say an action could be "wrong" in a mom & pop store but "right" in a big store. Store size doesn't affect morality.
 
OK, so put it this way. You tell your wife that Mr. X is coming to buy a car; you want 1200 bucks. You wife is busy and thinking about something and hears 800 bucks.

Mr. X comes to buy the car, asks the price again. "800 bucks." "Are you sure," he asks? "Yes, that's what my husband said."

Now, on the phone, you told him 1200 bucks. He knows that's what it is worth, knows that 800 bucks it too little for the car.

Would you be pissed at him if he didn't call you and say, "Dude..."

An ignorant employee is not Capitalism, it's a nimrod that should get in trouble for screwing up. Now, if you want to take advantage of that, fine, but don't tell me that you were quoted this price repeatedly or it's capitalism or whatever. It's just you taking advantage of a mistake.

Really; the name of the forum is not the "Get what you can road."
 
I work for a non-profit that is largely oriented around the acquisition and resale of salvaged building materials. We have criteria for goods we accept as donations, and we have a "Dollar Door" section for doors that don't meet our criteria, but somehow slipped in. Now that they're here, thought, we'd rather find them homes for a dollar than just recycle or landfill them.

So yesterday, a co-worker approached me for advice on a situation. A woman, on her very first visit to our store, had found, in the Dollar Door area, a set of old, beautiful, divided-light french doors. They had some issues (a broken pane, serious dog scratches, etc.), but clearly weren't really dollar doors. In the condition, they were in, I told her, I would normally sell the pair for $65. I asked her if she would be willing to pay $5 for each door instead of one, and let me strip the ball hinges (she was making a headboard out of them and so didn't need the hinges), and of course she agreed and left happy as a clam.

I don't think you've done anything wrong, morally or legally. If you want the gun, you should go buy it and feel done with the matter. If you personally feel some moral ambiguity on the matter, which I guess you do since you're posting this query, then I think you should go to the manager and be totally candid and upfront with them. Explain that you would really like to have the gun at the listed price and see whether he's fine to leave it at that or if he has a counter-offer that is fair to you and them. In the current economy, I bet that if you made it clear to the manager after bringing the issue to their attention that if the gun cost $399, then you wouldn't be buying it, you'll get a great price.

Josh
 
I've owned and operated a retail store and I'm in the process of opening another. I've realized that someone got a SCREAMING DEAL on something before after it was sold and the customer long gone and felt like I could go back and change the tag. But, I also have used it to make the customer feel good when they came back in (sometimes they would need to bring the item back to add an accessory or something). It always gained me some favor with the customer when I responded nicely. And it is seldom all that bad. So you lose $100, if that makes or breaks a business, then it was in trouble already. In the retail business, some days the sun will be brighter than others.

Oh, and for those who feel like the store has to sell the item at the listed price, THEY DON'T. Stores are allowed to make mistakes. Legally, it is a, no harm, no foul thing. So you didn't get as good a deal, there is still no loss for the buyer who isn't compelled to buy the item for the higher price.
 
"catalog price" = $399
Sales associate price = $299

Now, let's say you can hack the Cabela's computer and find out that they buy the item for $120

So who is ripping off whom? How much is a fair markup?

Maybe a better example would be a place that buys Mosins for $70 by the crate, and while most places would turn around and sell them for $100, they sell them for $150 (Gander Mountain anyone...)

You find an unmarked one, ask the price, and are quoted $100

While this isn't their normal price it is also a reasonable price IF you know where to look. I'd say buy.

Buyer Beware! How often do we hear that. You buy an item and it doesn't work, the store doesn't have to take it back. The ONLY reason they take it back is they figure if they don't they will loose more money over time as you will badmouth the store, and never shop there again.

Seller beware too!


A similar incident just made the news. A school decided to sell off some of their trailers (mobile home type class room)

School put them on ebay

School forgot to set a reserve price on one.

That one sold for $1.00

Ebay says the sale is final, and legally binding
 
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