Online ordering horseshit

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I think this is a pretty common practice these days. Especially for places that have a big selection, they can cut costs significantly by not stocking and drop shipping most items.

The ones that irk me are the NY camera outlets that take the order, charge your card the wait awhile and tell you the oversold the item so they are willing to sell you something not as good for the same or more money. They get real pissy when you ask for a refund.

I found one of those when I was looking up the price of one of the EOD cameras mentioned here. Froogle had a store that was undercutting the others by at least $500. However, when you looked at the comments you found that the store was breaking apart the included items like charger and batteries and pricing them separately. They also forced customers to buy these 'accessories' when the customers did the math and figured they could still come out ahead by buying the camera and shopping for the charger and batteries somewhere else. They also tried bait and switch and held the orders hostage.

Unlike Yahoo, Google does not appear to drop crappy merchants.