The 0% discount

9 months ago by Wispy2891 to c/maliciouscompliance

My neighbor come to shop at the store. He specifically called for me, as I don't stay at the front lines of retail but behind, doing other stuff, and jokingly asked, "can I get neighbor discount?". I said sure, and while he's in front of me, I call the supervisor at the phone to approve that. Not even ten seconds pass that he's shouting in my face "can you hurry with that price? I have something else to do!!".

I hung up the phone, sorry, you asked discount, I had to approve that, your price is $LIST_PRICE

Hamartiogonic 69 points 9 months ago

If you’re really good at customer service (i.e. manipulation), you’ll say the price just went up 10% this morning, but you’ll get a discount of the same amount, because you’re such a great pal. Basically just the normal price, but it feels nicer.

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village604 30 points 9 months ago

I see you subscribe to the Amazon sales policy.

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Hamartiogonic 22 points 9 months ago

Others might call it straight-up lying, deception or even misleading. Calling it “Amazon sales policy” just makes it sound nicer.

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village604 18 points 9 months ago

I'd call it fraud myself. But retailers have been doing this shit for forever. But the thing is that people love this shit.

JCPenny almost went under when they stopped deceptive pricing tactics like 20 years ago and just offered a really low price.

Shit, I worked at a major sports and outdoors retailer and we had tags that said "Everyday Low Price." Items tagged with that would never go on sale because they were loss leaders (just barely above wholesale to get people to buy overpriced accessories).

I had customers with the items in their cart ask me if it was on sale, I told them it was the lowest price they were going to find and even price checked other retailers whose sale price was higher than ours, and they put it back every time.

People are really fucking stupid.

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Hamartiogonic 4 points 9 months ago

That is just amazing. How the human mind works is so bizarre at times. Even when there’s a good deal, people just don’t take it? Wasn’t it enticing enough?

Either way, some companies exploit the same mechanics to sell trash for a high price. It’s so weird and pretty dark.

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otter 4 points 9 months ago

Similarly, the short-lived competitor to the ¼-pounder was the ⅓-pounder, but people complained it was smaller, so corp cancelled it nearly immediately.

People are really really fucking stupid.

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hansolo 31 points 9 months ago

What's the male equivalent of a Karen?

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Ensign_Crab 40 points 9 months ago

The pejorative use of the name "Dick" has been around for quite some time.

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Peppycito 17 points 9 months ago

A dickhead.

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ryannathans 9 points 9 months ago

Hey anyone can be a dick head

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Asetru 2 points 9 months ago

Might even be cool

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trinsec 16 points 9 months ago

I've read 'Ken' sometimes whenever they refer to a male Karen.

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Psythik 6 points 9 months ago

"Male Karen" is the term I hear the most. Karenism transcends genders.

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brax 2 points 9 months ago

I don't get why you'd call the manager to try to negotiate anything... Dude made a joke, all you had to do was make a snarky quip back while you were scanning his shit in.

Imagine if he asked how you were, would you call your doctor and ask for a checkup?

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Wispy2891 10 points 9 months ago

i was ok doing the discount but i had no idea of which margins there are on the cashier because usually i'm on the back doing IT, not the cashier - so the call

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Ensign_Crab 4 points 8 months ago

It's not always a joke and you can never tell who is going to make their entitlement your problem.

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brax 1 point 8 months ago

and joking asked

OP said it was a joke 🤷

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ImWaitingForRetcons -6 points 9 months ago

In another time, I would shit all over the neighbor, but considering the times, I don’t blame him at all…

Edit: My bad, I missed the part where he began screaming

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MountingSuspicion 47 points 9 months ago

Pretty sure the issue was that they were rude to OP when they were attempting to get a discount, not that they asked for a discount in the first place.

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Empricorn 18 points 9 months ago

Everyone is in a hurry and has shit to do. Screaming at the person you summoned, who's trying to help you out because you're impatient is the epitome of a selfish, shitty person.

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ImWaitingForRetcons 8 points 9 months ago

You’re absolutely right, I completely missed the part where he began screaming 😅

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