27 Nov

You are so cheap, don’t show it?

Monday November 27th 2006, 3:39 pm
Tags: , , ,

Amazon is so cheap selling an Apple notebook that they are asked not to advertise it, i.e. not to show the prices?

Why Don’t We Show the Price?
Manufacturers sometimes ask that retailers not display a price if it drops below a certain amount. The “click here to see price” message indicates that the price of the item is so low that the manufacturer requested that it not be advertised (that is, displayed). In a brick-and-mortar store, you would probably have to ask a salesperson what the price of the product is. At Amazon, by clicking on “click here to see price” you are essentially asking to see the price, at which point we show it to you.

Never seen anything like that in a store that I had to ask the salesman because it was too cheap to show the price publicly. In which bad movie are they playing? Sounds pretty much like a legal thing. Which strange kind of American law will forbid them to sell things for the price they want to???

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • bodytext
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit

No Comments »

No comments yet.

 

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack Website

Leave a comment

(required)

(required)

Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>