If you’d like to pay via PayPal, contact our sales team.
For fuck’s sake, either you accept PayPal or you don’t. What kind of shady behind-the-curtains bullshit are you trying to pull?
The API for the PayPal checkout workflow is too complicated for us, but one of us knows how to manually type in the order details to send you an invoice.
They'll probably send you the paypal friends link, which you can't use for business purposes lol
I buy a lot of things for work and if I can find a company that has the price listed I go with them over the one that makes me contact sales for a quote almost every time
Well this one could be cheaper, but how could I even know, the price isn't listed.
It's not cheaper, it costs me time.
Absolutely! And having to tolerate annoying and intrusive sales people
Avoiding those are priceless
This could be a great use for a voice AI chat bot connected to your phone line. Prompt it with something like,
"You're on a phone call to [Widgets Inc] to get a price quote for a [box of premium widgets]. You'll probably be put on hold to speak with the next available sales representative. Just wait until you get a person on the line. Then, ask for the price and immediately start negotiating for a better price. Use whatever strategy you want but never agree to whatever price they offer. Keep coming up with more ridiculous reasons that they should give you an even better price."
Then dial the phone, turn it over to the chat bot, and wander off to go do more important things.
Especially considering that most of the time you'll sit on hold which can be awhile
If the company says "call" I ain't even going to bother because my 30 minutes is more valuable to me than whatever price they could say 99.9% of the time
It’s more about not rewarding their disrespect and greed. Instead rewarding the company being open and upfront and not wasting my time
Exactly
Reward the company that respects me enough to not waste my time
If it were cheaper, the price would be listed
Sometimes you can blame the partnership agreement for that. Some manufacturers will have a MAP (minimum advertised price) and the distributor would be in violation of their contract if they showed it publicly.
Though that just shifts to being a manufacturer problem with the same result. Just saying it may not be the distributor being weird about pricing.
If you have to ask for a price, it ain't cheap.
If I have to ask for a price, I ain't bothering
I do the same in stores. If there's no prices listed I'll just walk away. I absolutely hate surprises at the register.
I "walk away" online as well.
"Sign in to get price".
Guess what, it's never a mind blowing low price. It's like $5.00 less than normal. Hidden prices are never a deal.
There actually can be bs from a manufacturer where a site cannot list an item below their MSRP so in order to do a sale they have to do the bs like "add to cart to see price" or making you sign in. Sure sometimes it's not an amazing deal but it can often be the lowest price you can find an item because they aren't allowed to advertise a price that low.
Edit: See comment below to learn about MAP "minimum advertised price" which is different from MSRP "manufacturer suggested retail price" leaving my above comment alone with its inaccuracy so that the below comment continues to make sense and you can learn as I did.
You're being too generous...
It's usually the exact same price or higher.
No price, no sale. I tell myself that whenever I have to walk away from a product that didn't have a listed price.
I moved last year. I looked into so many companies that drop off a box for later pickup. Only one of them (U-Haul) published their prices and they were very affordable.
They published their price because their marketing advantage was price.
Yes. It infuriates me that members of my species keep these places in business. They should all be out of business since absolutely no one should be buying their unpriced shit.
Short of custom work, but even still, give me a "starting at" price so I know whether it's worth my time to investigate.
Yeah. Like a $1,900-$4,800. I've seen that a lot because even w/o custom work there's a lot of options or additional features/drawers they can add in. Sizes, etc.
That happens at my job, we're instructed to not give prices cause it depends on a number of factors but I do give starting prices and make sure to repeat at least three times that's they're the minimums and there is no upper limit cause it depends on those factors. It's free to have one of my licensed inspectors go out and do his thing to provide an exact number anyways. The number includes taxes too so there's no surprises.
Even worse: when you have to call to cancel a subscription.
I subscribed online, I should be able to cancel online.
Of course, it's also hidden deep in the terms of service that you can't cancel online. They know what they're doing.
Think California specifically made a law that whatever the sign up method is there must also exist that method for cancellation.
Laws against bs.
Same with certain home improvement companies that hope once you're on the line, they can close the sale there and then.
I swear they must make all their money off people who don't want to think about what the job involves, and just hand over a chequebook.
The water softener from Costco is £500, the one from ScrewFix is £400, but I'm curious how much the one from NameBrand is.
NameBrand website "Well, it can vary a lot depending on how complicated..."
Forum posts: "£2k including fitting and a year's salt, £1500 for the unit"
(Which isn't an insane price to just have it sorted, I just hate the bollocks excuses when everyone magically still comes out around £2k)
The physical staircase will cost me about £1000, then a few days of skilled labour for someone to fit.
I wonder how much one of those "we'll just handle it" companies in the back of the sunday supplement could do it for...Oh, that's 15 times the price, wonderful.
Guess i'll take my business elsewhere. Too bad nobody else in this world sells desks 😘
I'd guess they don't actually want to sell you a desk. They are probably in the business of selling hundreds of desks for offices, and this is their way of keeping out the small purchases that they aren't targeting.
That's just lazy. They can put min order quantity to achieve the same effect.
Tbh I think that bugs everyone not just us lol
If you've got to ask you can't afford it.
If I'm looking at what amounts to a catalog, you better have prices, because your shit isn't that expensive.
3 star Michelin restaurants list their prices online and that's about as exclusive as you can get. This is just hiding the price so they can try to strong-arm people on the phone.
Or get a sense of how little you know about the product/competition to judge how much they can get away scamming you for.
There's an art supply store Michaels, they don't list so much as a paint brush price on their site. This combined with their incessant need to ask me for my email every time I buy even one tiny thing at their store, ensures that I'm never going there again. From what I understand the employees get in trouble if they don't ask and get emails which is bullshit
i have one amazon account i'm locked out from because i forgot the name i used to sign up for it (there are numerous ways i could've written it and they only gave me three attempts) and another one that's blocked because i incorrectly filled my credit card details while ordering a gift card and about to just create a third one because they want me to call them and talk to support for both cases.
The lighter side of ADHD
