Sneaky Banggood

I was just on Banggood and saw a 30% off everything banner. They had the weltool W4 “Dragon in Cloud” listed at $437.00 . 30% off comes to $305.90

Sounded pretty good . but further investigation shows It is also listed for $306.00 The 30% off does not work on the $306.00 listing.

I’m not sure what they were trying to accomplish . They should have removed the $306.00 if they wanted to think someone was getting a deal

Aliexpress is the same way. One seller will have it for 20% off, but you can get it cheaper elsewhere with no discount…or the 10% off that doesn’t work for all products. Go figure.

The illusion of a deal is more important than the actual deal

My wife installed a strobe light in out bedroom to give the illusion she was actually moving during sex .

Oh so funny!, or maybe she’s trying to give you a migrane in hopes you’ll go away. :person_facepalming:

You got pwmed…

Sorry I’m old what does “pwmed” mean ?

JCPenney tried that, though. (No, not the strobe-sex, but “honest pricing”.)

They had a huge campaign where they would price things at their rock-bottom lowest, no coupons, no sales, no gimmicks. Certainly no jacked-up prices just to “discount” it later.

It went over like a lead balloon.

People will still flock to, ferinstance, Kohls, where you pretty much know not to shop there unless you got a 20- or 30-off coupon, plus burn off all your earned Kohl Kash, etc., to get a bargain.

Hell, I once just wanted to buy a coupla belts, that would’ve ended up being something like 50bux or more if you throw in shipping, but then to add just a coupla more bux to make the free-shipping minimum, I bought some sox for cheap. But now that let an additional discount kick in, which now again dumped me under the free-shipping minimum, so I bought some more sox. And then the Kohl Kash kicked in at some point, that by the time I was all done, I ended up getting over 80bux of stuff for a small fraction of that amount. Paid the same for all that as I would’ve paid just for the belts, but now got a lifetime supply (and then some) of those baby-booty sox “free”.

Gaming the system and “winning” a huge discount gives people a sense of accomplishment, an extra rush. Just buying all the stuff with no game-playing isn’t as “fun”, even if you pay less for the same stuff, and pay more for the discount.

What’s more “fun”? Buying your doodad for 300bux flat, or finding it for 400 and scoring a 100buk-off coupon? Woohoo! I saved a hunnit bux! Score!! Bragging rights!

Okay, it’s not as funny if I gotta ’splain it…

If you got pwned it means you got trounced and/or humiliated. Typo for “owned”.

Being that pwm could be compared with extremely fast strobing…

You got pwmed.

A sad statement on the “average human” although to be fair that sort of strategy might only work in the long run, especially if they sell a lot of products that are sold elsewhere for a higher price.

I’m sure BLFers look at the price fluctuations and Banggood’s competitors to get an idea of what the real prices are.

Oh man what a pain ...changing jobs ,the movers ,all that packing and unpacking ,new neighbors ,new schools.. Where is she moving to ?

* Oh wait ...I get it ..She's actually not moving but is acting like she's moving ..so she packs and you ?? Ok now I think I'm confused again . Do you wear a uniform ?

Nobody’s moving yet , my wife is recovering from a elevator accident that happened in July 2019 . If she doesn’t get better and return to work or if we don’t get a settlement in about a year we will be moving. but not like the Jefferson’s

Holy Crap… I just wanted to recall what was their name for it, and what a sad commentary indeed:

https://www.google.com/search?q=jcpenney+honest+pricing

Nb: that NBC piece at the top. :weary:

almost any discount or coupon does not work on almost any item I want to buy from BG.
Guess why I haven’t purchased anything from them in the entire year…

what a waste of time.

The worst is if you Do find a combo that works and manage to score Real deal, is that they then refuse to honor it! and keep pushing the shipping date forward every 2 weeks, they Do make a large “Request Refund” button appear next to it though.
I`v had an EDC18 of hold now for over a month just because I managed to get it for $23.

I remember a time when we had responsible customer service reps on BLF. from almost all of the big shops.
they actually went back to check and responded… guess BLF isn’t big enough to have a voice any longer.

And of course you could buy plenty of ’em unfettered, right here and now… but at regular price.

That does not surprise me.

Not just Chinese companies doing this. Watch out for Sears.com. I bought a microwave Aug. 29th and still no sign of it. Paid for it mostly with saved up points and caught it on sale to boot. CS (India) keeps telling me there is a appliance shortage to blame but I see the same microwave in stock at other retailers. They keep pushing me towards another model but no thanks.

scored a $10 convoy c8 host and used a $5 off coupon, today I got an email saying they can`t post it!

“We regret to inform you that the item can’t be shipped with the shipping method you chose due to some specific restrictions of the logistics carrier.”

I did nothing different form any other time, and yet Now it`s a problem???