sol magnus wrote:fenrir72 wrote:Root of the issue is, was MP BB "tagged" right on the box? If that is the case, claborn is as innocent as a baby. The mistake is with the store. If the tag was corrected, well, claborn was just lucky.
I don't see how that is the "root of the issue" at all.
He wasn't "lucky" in any way other than in getting the manager to go along with his chicanery. He knew before he went to the counter the price was wrong and he campaigned to get the toy for the price that was there (6.99). He even admitted to running this kind of game "all the time". Then he came on here to brag out it. Then several people cheered him on for it.
Bending the manager over the counter for a technicality is hardly "lucky", and he is hardly "innocent".
Woo hombre. Chill before we get into superflous bouts of piety. It isn't just the shelf where a product is laid in that determines a product price. Especially in TRU. the product is tagged with a retail price bar coded decal. If it's in the store database (see the receipt image, the encoded data on his receipt)
"TRNSFM MSTR Bumble & Spike"
630509466221
then he got a 58.00 INSTANT SAVINGS (take a good look at the picture)
For those in the know, the cash register staff just punches the buttons as those data are already encoded after they scan the item with a barcode reader.
The mistake was in the encoding/sticking the tag onto the product. Iirc, same thing happened a few years back at Amazon where SoC Daltanious was sold for a song.A glitch or someone had not been getting enough"Zs". Amazon still honored the sale for those who were lucky enough to order the item thinking it might have been a "flash" bargain sale or something.
claborne, sorry buddy , might be exaggerating he's "doing this all the time". It is a crime to switch tags but in this case, the system didn't flag him because the encoding was legit.
If I found a PS4 tagged with an ultra low price, I won't be a hypocrite, I'd buy it in a flash. Unless the store calls my attention for the mistake.