Harvey Norman idiots.
I decided to get chickz0r a Canon Powershot S3 IS as her Christmas/Birthday present.
First, we (mother and I) went to JB. A Whirlpoolian reported that they would price match from MSY (cheapest I could find it).
“Sorry, no can do, that’s well below cost price. If you get it from them, its a grey import, etc etc“
Then, Teds Camera’s “….haha we’d be out of business in a week if we sold it at that price“
Then, Harvey Norman. Guy says “eh, okay, sure. Lemme ring them up“
<insert 5mins waiting time>
“They didn’t have any.“
“Try CPL?”
<insert 5mins waiting time>
“none either” (Although, 9:30pm the night before, CPL responded via email that they had a few in stock…)
Disheartened, we walk away, go to the JB near that HN (JB may or may not have called them up, so that was our reason for trying), but called MSY first.
They had 2.
So we go back to Harvey Norman (and after explaining what had happened…three times)
“MSY eh? Did you use a special password to get these prices?” (Obviously he knows MSY, and that they used to have such a thing)
“No?”
“Uhm, well…we can’t price match, its below cost“
“But you can price match?”
“Technically…but…I don’t want to say anything I shouldn’t. Let me just see“
<walks away/walks back>
“Lemme just get one from out the back“
In the end, we got the camera from Harvey Norman, which was fantastic (price-wise).
This ‘story’ was delayed a few weeks, because I couldn’t blog about it until I gave the present to chickz0r! ;)
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