I can’t figure out why people shop GM for the price matching! I understand lowest price mentality but in terms of gas expense and time expense, doesn’t it make more sense to support the people who are actually trying to take better care of you? If someone makes the effort to make something more affordable, why would you take that effort, with your wallet, over to the competition, who only agrees to give you that price “if they must???”
The “big sales” are only designed to get you in the door and out of convenience, so they can price gouge you on something else to make up the difference! Trigger impulse, mix in a little convenience and Hey!, give the customer a laugh/smile/whatever equals a great shopping experience and BAMMM! You’ve spent more than you intended and chances are, you still didn’t get the best deal possible!!!
Take the last 2 Cabela’s flyers: The gun sales look great………if you haven’t been to Fleet Farm! The sale price was higher than FF’s regular pricing! Being on the inside, I know that Cabela’s has more buying power than Fleet Farm so they’re still making more and bending more people over. And then I come into posts like these and “all hail Cabela’s” comes up. If that’s the place you like to shop, cool. But Cabela’s throws just as much snow as anyone else. Buying from Cabela’s or GM doesn’t equal any social status recognition either. I honestly wonder how those places do it!
But why go to Fleet Farm, find a lower price, and then drive over to GM, get a price match, and buy from them instead??? Again, FF has a much smaller margin to work with, they’re the ones obviously trying harder to get your gun business, and for what? Helping the “less willing competition” out?
Listen, if price is the issue, don’t gripe about the employees not being experts. Light a match under your own butt and do a little research. Find out what’s what and choose your choice, THEN go shopping! Go to your discount department store and reward them by buying from them. If price is the issue, this is how you should play.
BUT…… if in-stock product selection is worth a little higher price, pay it, and never discuss pricing again. If talking with so-called “experts” is worth paying a little higher price, pay it, and never discuss pricing again! If great customer service means paying a little extra from time to time, pay it, and never discuss pricing again.
If it’s only about the pricing, forget about all the extras, do your homework, and your bank account will love you! Shop everybody, vowing to only buy when the deal cannot be beat anywhere. Do not settle for price matching unless the originator of the sale is completely out of available product. Otherwise, you’re simply being roped into doors that are only opened by those who are willing to rob you blind if you give them an opportunity to do so.
No one can be the lowest, all the time, on everything, UNLESS……… you use everybody and pay only the lowest bidder, everytime, on everything. That accomplishment happens through you, the shopper, not the retailer.
I am a lucky guy to say the least!
advantage Col!! 
He knows how it works 
Then she gave me $44.72 back. 
