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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
Hahahaha, yep
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.
I feel like the new samsung already has this feature
I like the cut of your jib
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
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Do we really need this comment on every fucking post? No one claimed the meme is a diagnostic criteria.
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Just because it applies to those without ADHD, Doesnt make it less applicable to ADHD.
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Not unique to ADHD, perhaps, but the added step is a bigger deal to those with ADHD. Having to stop what I’m doing to make a call makes it more likely that I won’t complete my original task. I have trouble completing tasks on a daily basis so needless interruptions like this make me feel more annoyed than would probably be considered reasonable by someone without ADHD .There’s also nothing that’s terribly unique to ADHD because our symptoms are things that happen to most non-adhd people occasionally turned up in frequency and severity to a debilitating degree.
What part of “just because it applies to everyone, doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply to ADHD” means that it’s unique to ADHD?🤨
That’s literally the exact opposite of what I said.
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100%
But it’s in an ADHD meme community, isn’t that the point of this community?
No. No it is not.
Nobody here is a doctor trying to diagnose anyone. We’re simply sharing memes that we feel are relatable, no matter if it’s relatable to normal humans or not, is a matter of exactly how much it effects your life.
For example, someone in this position with ADHD might have issues with talking on the phone because they don’t remember everything they need to ask. This gives them anxiety enough to not even call and might even hinder their mental ability to move on to another “task” because their task of calling about the desk, can’t be done.
All in all, if a behavior seen in this community effects you in a REALLY negative way, see a doctor.
I don’t think you need to have ADHD to read the only rule of the sub…
I have ADHD and even said the same thing seeing this.
I do the same in stores. If there’s no prices listed I’ll just walk away. I absolutely hate surprises at the register.
No price, no sale. I tell myself that whenever I have to walk away from a product that didn’t have a listed price.
What sort of places do this?
Thankfully not too many, Often I’ll find some things are marked but not everything in smaller stores like some grocery, variety stores, second hand shops etc.
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.
This is why if there is no price I’m out - I’m getting taken advantage of
I agree, I pretty much won’t do “Contact Us for Pricing” unless it’s construction work or something, but man, have you seen the Uhaul moving box in person?
It’s a wooden pallet with wobbly plywood walls and a tarp on it. It looks like something you’d see in a homeless camp.
I’d do it again but damn, the price definitely matches the quality.Well, sometimes you don’t want the cheapest either.
And when it arrives on your doorstep, you realize that you just rented a wooden pallet with wobbly plywood walls and a thick vinyl tarp over it 😂
It looked like a hobo’s shack!
I’d still choose them again due to cost but I was shocked at the actual product. Lead with the price indeed.
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.
What is the point of consumer protection laws if brands can just write “nuh-uh?”
We updated the terms of service. You cannot sue us for getting all your data stolen.
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.I get what your saying and obviously overpaying by 15x, like in your example is a terrible idea but, I will say, overpaying by a much smaller amount to save time is sometimes worth it.
One thing your example does not do, and its something most people don’t do is factor in how much your time is worth. Is spending an extra $500, for example, worth as much as multiple hours of your time?
I absolutely agree.
Honestly, if NameBrand posted their prices, I might have considered them, as once my time organising/plumbing (or paying a plumber) is factored in, the difference isn’t so massive.
I just loathe the principle of having to get a quote for even the basic device in a box!
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.
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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.
Lots of these places have discounts when you spend tiers of money. 1.5% discount if you spend 10k a year. 2.5% for spending 25k and so on kind of a thing.
Contractor rates basically, give us business and we give you a deal. So you may pay $100, but Bob can go and get it for $90.
“If only there was a way to keep track of that, maybe someone in accounting could think of something. Anyone got some ideas? No? If only those computer things were more useful, could we track with those? Anyone? Damn, I guess accounting will have to keep manually tracking everything. Why do we have a website again? Oh yeah, it’s like the sears catalog on the intertubes.”
-a company board room where everyone is 60+ and every time they want to receive an email they create a new Gmail account
Yea I see a lot of software online that has their tiers and pricing for it. The only time they have a ‘call for pricing’ is when it’s truly ridiculous amounts. They’ll have like
10 users 10 bucks 100 users 90 bucks 1000 users 800 bucks 100000 users call for pricing.
Most of these places have vendor portals so you can see individual pricing, you can also call, some places also sell to general public, but their pricing is based off of market conditions, so a week after the catalog is out, a large portion is outdated. General public don’t have accounts and the vast majority aren’t going to sign up for one off faucet cartridge either.
Do you think it would work for Walmart to price milk at one price the entire year for an example?
I think you missed this part:
It’s like the sears catalog on the intertubes
You know, where you can edit things quickly, or even have the price update automatically as your costs change.
So the issue being, everyone has their own unique pricing, and here’s the real reason, most people are friggen stupid. The customer will inevitably be logged out, and then when viewing the website get enraged when the pricing jumps 15% overnight. So when it defaults to “call or login for pricing” the customer should realize they are logged out, and they also aren’t seeing incorrect pricing leading them to go elsewhere.
People are stupid, keep this in mind when you think of why something is probably done.
Yep.
If I have to ask, I’m not going to afford it.
Guess they think they make enough profit in gouging those who call that they don’t need to publish for the rest of us.
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 just looked and everything has listed prices on their site. I thought it was weird you said they don’t list paint brushes cause I buy them from there somewhat frequently.
I use the Michael’s and joann’s apps for the coupons cause almost everything in those stores is overpriced. But the coupons are usually worth it.
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.
Mine got blocked for repeatedly calling to say items were not delivered.
I hsve taken more I’ve given Amazon so that’s a win for me.
Password manager with auto-fill can prevent both issues :)
how so? it would just offer me a list of possible combinations of name/surnames.
i could’ve written them in four different languages (english, ukrainian, russian, polish), and that’s not even including transcription into latin for ukrainian and russian.
and also they don’t even say if they expect name-surname or surname-name ordering, so the check is fundamentally broken and impossible to pass reliably.also the password managers usually don’t save cvv and even if they did I’d have to disable that feature because I’m using dynamic cvv that refreshes every hour
it would just offer me a list of possible combinations of name/surnames.
The password manager suggests the details you saved for amazon, usually at sign-in. It doesn’t just show you a list of everything you ever typed into a form field.
yeah fuck that.
if they make you jump through hoops it was probably a shit deal anyway
During the call: “The table is how much???”
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