Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:18:41 +0200 From: Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best service on earth! Message-ID: <3C14EE71.91ECF654@duth.gr> References: <20011210123010.A259@tisys.org> <3C14A495.841A203D@duth.gr> <01121013063303.00345@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <20011210173831.A1975@tisys.org>
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Nils Holland wrote: > > Actually, I guess that Western Digital (or wherever the retailer gets the > drive from) has already made a mistake. The antistatic shielding back in > which the drive came had a label attached that said something WD200EB, > which is the 20 GB drive. However, I don't know why nobody looked through > the shielding back, because the label on the drive clearly says WD600AB. So > probably the retailer has received a whole lot of 60 GB discs that are > labelled 20 GB from whatever source provides them the stuff they sell. > > And by the way, I was a little disappointed to note that the graphics card > that I also got with this delivery was actually the cheap 8 MB thing I > ordered. They could have been so kind and shipped me a 32 MB thing or > similar ;-) Sometimes interesting things happen, especially after mergers, when often backend software is incompatible between the companies and prices often have to be entered manually at some point. It's like that old IT saying, "to err is human, but to really cock things up you need a computer". Anyway, I often hunt for silly prices at pricelists, and I got a lot of stuff for absolutely ridiculous prices. I once got a Toshiba Libretto for less than a third of its price. I always wanted something like that, and one day I went to buy some blank CD-Rs and I saw the price and couldn't believe it. I instantly reached for my credit card, and bought it. Even the guy at the till couldn't believe the price (it was just brought in the day before, and he obviously hadn't seen it before), so he called the head office to confirm the price. Judging from his reaction, he probably got a reply in the lines of "if that's what the POS terminal says when you scan it, then that's what you will to charge, you $EXPLETIVE". I also got a Matrox G400 DH 32MB for less than the price of the 16MB SH version, probably due to a data entry mistake too. It was obvious even for the employees there (not known for their high IQ mind you) that it was weird, but that was the price, they didn't argue, and that's what I paid. I then told several of my friends, and in the next few weeks 6 of them ordered it. Apparently they didn't correct the price until they run out of them nation-wide and had a new shipment in. I once *nearly* got a lexmark >20ppm network laser printer from the same company for the price of a good inkjet (!). I nearly got it, because somebody noticed that this huge, heavy crate should contain something much more expensive than ~$200 and bothered to double check, so at the last moment they phoned me and apologized and asked me if I wanted to pay it at the significantly increased price or cancel the order (which I did). I've been told by some people that this is dishonest, but frankly, I don't think so. When I am getting an offer I can't refuse, that's what I do - I don't refuse it. I am not going to sit and argue with an employee of a huge nation-wide coroporation how ridiculous the price for a particular item is, I'll just go ahead and buy it if I want it. --kkonstan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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