Comments on: Circuit City’s Black Friday Bait and Switch or Just a Poorly Timed Price Change?

By: daniegb123 » Circuit City’s Black Friday Bait and Switch or Just a Poorly Timed …

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:42:20 +0000

[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptI bought a computer from Circuit City in 1994 and returned it soon after. Since then, I’ve not really shopped there much. They didn’t burn me at the time or anything, but I just found better deals, etc. at other places. … [...]

By: KnowHowToBuy@CC

KnowHowToBuy@CC — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:26:37 +0000

This is why Circuit City allows you to purchase the item online and pick it up in-store. This way you get the online price you see at that time. No bait and switch here, just a guy who didn’t want to buy online first. You got burned because you waited and price fluxed.

By: joe

joe — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:04:10 +0000

Then perhaps it is as the second half of the title suggests, a poorly timed price change. Really, the point is that a company such as Circuit City should know that scores of people get up at 3 AM to go Black Friday shopping and plan their morning around what they’re going to buy where based on the deals advertised. To raise the price on a popular item the morning of Black Friday is just crappy.

By: James Westfall

James Westfall — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:33:21 +0000

Amazon adjust prices intra-day on their products. This isn’t bait and switch.

By: joe

joe — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:29:21 +0000

James, I seriously doubt the demand for the item rose or supply diminished in the 2.5 hours that the stores were open, especially since everyone I saw buying GPS units were buying the ones advertised instead of the one I purchased. So I don’t see how supply and demand fits in here.

By: James Westfall

James Westfall — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:11:03 +0000

If the item wasn’t in the ad, where exactly is the “bait and switch”? It’s the law of supply and demand that causes prices to fluctuate.