Am I evil for this?

[KitchenWitch]

I went to Target today to buy some necessities, and some not so necessities.

I saw this with a sign below that said $49.99.


So I put it in my cart, since I have been looking for something like this and it was a good price.

When I went to check out, the price rang up as $69.99. I told the cashier that there was a price of $49.99 by it in the kitchen appliance area. She had someone go check the price for me and he brought the sign back, because apparently that was last week's sale. They gave me the $49.99 price though.

I am feeling kind of guilty about it though.

[Mabus]

1. The store should have taken down the obsolete sign

You shouldn't feel guilty about it.

[KitchenWitch]

6. They did, and I still got it at the sale price

:o

[Mabus]

21. Not before you saw it

I didn't know you shopped at target.

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

23. *chuckle*

Once I am recuperated from my pneumonia I plan on applying for a job at Target. I wantsss the dissscount.

[Mabus]

28. As if

You want to be paid for all the time you spend there. :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

29. That too!

[crispini]

2. HELL no. They post the sign, they'd better stick to it.

I have more than once forced a retailer to give me the posted price.

What IS that, anyway?

[KitchenWitch]

4. It is a combination contact grill, contact griddle, pannini press

The plates are removable for ease of cleaning (the one thing I hated about the Foreman grill we have - so now we will use the above and get rid of the Foreman grill).

[crispini]

11. Interesting. I often look at small appliances like that and think,

Would I use it? I gather from your post you do. What does one make with that sort of thing?

[KitchenWitch]

18. I do burgers on it

and now that I have the griddle part, I will do grilled cheese and quesadillas on it.

I imagine, with it open, I could do pancakes as well.

[foxfeet]

3. Nope. It was their error.

They had it marked down and should have given you the sale price.

[NightWatcher]

5. oooo a panini. can I come over and make a Cuban?

my SO has our Foreman grill at her place and I am without a way to flatten a sandwich

[Callalily]

7. Please don't feel guilty.

As you've experience, Target honors the price(s) posted. If someone fails to remove sale signs, they take the loss. It's their policy.

Happy grilling.

[KitchenWitch]

9. I was quite surprised that they honored it.

Another reason to like shopping at Target.

[Maestro]

8. Don't feel guilty

They need to make sure the correct signage is in place.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. There's prolly some Latin term for it in law, but

you made a "good faith" purchase — you selected that wadevahthefuckitis in the belief that its price was as marked. Target were thus required, I believe, to let you have it at that price. They did you no favor, so you've nothing to feel guilty about.









But, yeah — you're evil under any circumstances. :P

[KitchenWitch]

13. LOL

Thank you for affirming what I know to be true about me!

:D

[trof]

12. Yes, you should feel guilty about buying yet one more electric appliance.

Sucking up our power grid. I can't tell if it's a George Foreman or a pannini grill.
How bad did you really NEED one?
You can do about the same damn thing with a cast iron skillet.
You won't get the similar grill marks, but the end product tastes about the same.
jeez
:-(

But you get a pass on the lower price.
Don't feel guilty about that.
Target will survive...maybe?

I'm not usually this judgmental and pissy, but I've just personally ruled out buying any more electrically powered stuff.

Now... go stand in the corner.
;-)

[KitchenWitch]

50. Well since both my cooktop and my oven are electric...

all of my cooking is done on the 'electrical power grid'.

And I cannot cook a burger without having to flip it in a cast iron skillet. :hi:

[DarkTirade]

14. If the sale sign had a date on it they could have said no,

but if it didn't have a date, or if they just wanted a satisfied repeat customer, then they were right to sell it at the lower price.

Or maybe you just caught somebody on a good day. Who knows? :)

[KitchenWitch]

15. It did have a date on it.

Apparently the sale ended on Saturday.

[DarkTirade]

16. Then they were being nice, and that's cool too.

:)

[mtnester]

17. No guilt...if it was Giant Eagle you would have gotten it for free

yeppers, for free. The only thing it does not apply to is liquor and cigs.

I got a VERY VERY VERY expensive cut O meat for free..more than $75.00 actual price...yeah, it was a boneless ribeye roast....a real nice one..USDA PRIME....break your heart good if you are an omnivore.

Did I feel bad? Nope..and it is a rare thing to have pricing be weird at Giant Eagle.

[Deja Q]

19. Their way to be lazy; but at least yours was dumb...

Many Target sale tags say "valid thru a/bb - x/yy" and if it's after x/yy, they point it out and you're sunk.

That may not be legal either, but the workers aren't going to care. For the piss poor pay, who would. (methinks the lovely concept "passive aggressiveness" has more to do than fighting with worthless wankers on internet discussion forums! :rofl: )

[Bucky]

20. Thief! Go back and pay Target, Inc. its $20 right now!

Or I'm calling Congress, right fucking now!! You took advantage of a person, albeit a corporate person instead of a human person--but a person nonetheless, capable of warmth, feeling, and tax sheltering. You have hurt Target Inc.'s feelings, you callous, heartless shrew. Damn you to hell. Not just hell; damn you to Hamburger Hell.

[WinkyDink]

22. $49.99 was better for the store than your walking out.

[KitchenWitch]

24. True.

I would have paid the $20 more though.

[graywarrior]

25. Not evil....lucky.

They shoulda changed the sign. They shoulda given it to you for free...hahahahaha.

[GOPisEvil]

26. Now the CEO is going to have to vacation in Cannes instead of Monaco this year.

Nice going, bargain huntress.

[KitchenWitch]

27. I do my part.

:D

[old mark]

30. How long have you been carrying that sign around? nt

[KitchenWitch]

31. LOL

Good one.

[Vattel]

32. Guilty?

This is just what the economy needs: people who have so much consumer confidence they will buy useless shit like a 3-dial italian toaster.

[KitchenWitch]

33. uh thanks I think.

[KitchenWitch]

51. Oh, and by the way, I think it is useful.

Therefore it is not a 'piece of useless shit'.

[Heidi]

53. DAMN YOU, KitchenWitch, and your capitalist Italian toaster, too!

:rofl:

:loveya:

[KitchenWitch]

60. Thanks

I feel like I got ripped unnecessarily there!

:rofl:

[Heidi]

62. On the other hand, the photo of your toaster informed my decision not to post

a photo of our espresso machine. :rofl:

:hug:

[Witchy_Dem]

34. As someone who, according to MySpace, is 53% evil I can honestly say

you are not evil and I'd have made them give me the discounted price as well. I know Target peeps always give me the lower price on any contested item. It's no biggie and I would wonder if the checkout person gave you any shit for it.

Not evil and not worth feeling bad about. Good job on the $20 savings!

<<evil out>>

[Skittles]

35. no, you're fine and Target did right by you

but I think I'll kick your ass anyways, KW

[KitchenWitch]

37. Thanks I need it.

[AlCzervik]

36. no, they should have taken the sign down and since they didn't you should get the price

that was on the sign.

[merh]

38. Feeling guilty?

Imagine the mark up on this appliance - hell, you don't have to imagine, you know it - they sold it last week at a profit for $49.99 and marked it up this week to $69.99 and are selling it at a higher profit.

You shouldn't feel guilty.

[Tom Kitten]

39. Here, let me add to your guilt...

I think you should pay back the difference plus pay Target for the employee's wages they spent wasting the company's time tracking down your little "sale" sign! Maybe write a letter of apology to Target corporate headquarters, too. And maybe as a result you'll get a hundred dollar gift card in appreciation for your honesty, and Earth's karma will once again achieve its rightful balance!

[JTG of the PRB]

40. Oh, so you're one of THOSE customers, huh?

Always gotta have it your way, wanting stores to abide by their signs, no matter how hideously out-dated and should-have-been-taken-down-weeks-ago they are?

:hide:

I agree with you. I probably would have done the same thing. As long as you were nice about it, it's okay... But I see some people turn absolutely nasty at the slightest hint that something like that is an old sale...

[KitchenWitch]

44. I was nice about it.

I would have paid the regular price if I had to. I was just confused that I saw the tag that said one thing and the scanner registered another.

[Jamastiene]

41. I would not necessarily feel guilty about it.

1. It was that price at one time.
2. They left the "expired" (I don't know if that's the right word) price tag on it.
3. It didn't sound like any kind of confrontation. You just told them about the price tag saying it was a lower price.
4. If they didn't want to sell it to you at the lower price, they wouldn't have.

Don't feel guilty.
:hug:

[Lucian]

42. It's their fault, not your's.

[petronius]

43. You should feel extremely guilty. However, if you send me that $20 you stole -

that's right, I said stole - I'll make sure that it goes to the proper people.

OK, how about if you just send me $10 of it? $5? :shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

45. Meh!

:P

[rcrush]

46. As long as you didnt give them an attitude about it.

I fuckin hated that shit. Anyone who gave me shit got shit flung right back in their face! Literally! I would fling shit in their face!

Ok not really.

[KitchenWitch]

47. Nope, no attitude at all.

[bluesbassman]

48. Guilty? Hell you should have bought six...

and sold five on Craiglist for $59.99 each. That way you would have gotten yours for free. Then you could feel guilty! :rofl:

Just kidding KW. You did fine. Target is a good store for that sort of thing and they treated you fairly for their oversight. Now go grill in peace. :)

[KitchenWitch]

49. I did,

It works like a charm.

[MrSlayer]

52. Why would you feel guilty?

I don't get it. You saved 20 bucks and did nothing wrong. Feel good about it. Of course, I would council you not to feel guilty if you stole the thing as well.

[Phillycat]

54. Nah, you're evil for lots of other things instead.

:evilgrin:

Kidding.

BTW, if that's the Cuisinart one, we have the same one (well, we did until we moved to the UK) and it was fantastic.

[KitchenWitch]

57. It is not the Cuisinart

I think that one is double the price.

I tried it out last night for burgers and it worked well.

May make pancakes tonight.

[Phillycat]

58. We got ours for a wedding present, so I don't know how much it was.

But I know they had it in the Williams Sonoma catalog, so I'm guessing it wasn't cheap. It was fabulous though - you could put the grill plates right in the dishwasher. Effortless cleanup.

[KitchenWitch]

59. Yep, the grill plates on this one pop right out too.

We have a George Foreman grill, and I hated cleaning the thing. This grill is better, because you can open it completely up and use it flat also.

[Rabrrrrrr]

55. No, not because of that.

[Strong Atheist]

56. I have friends who take advantage of store mistakes all the time.

Apparently, it is well known that if a store makes a mistake like that, they have to abide by it...

[Shell Beau]

61. No! You wouldn't have bought it if it were $69.99.

A lot of people got it for the $49.99 price. That is $20. I wouldn't feel guilty. Target didn't lose any money I promise. And they should make sure the signs are all correct. I hope you enjoy it too. It looks nifty. I do love Target. It is my guilty pleasure. Guilty because I always spend butt loads of money there.

[KitchenWitch]

65. It would not have landed in my cart at $69.99

But I would have paid it at the register if they told me sorry the price had expired.

[Shell Beau]

66. I would have too. But you asked and they gave it to you for that price!

Nothing wrong with that at all.

[Gormy Cuss]

63. Nope. In some states they are required to honor the lowest posted price

and even without such a law many large retailers have such a policy anyway.

I'd say Target did the customer-friendly thing here.

[azmouse]

64. If it'll make you feel better you can send me the $20

:hi:

[dawgmom]

67. H to the E to the Double L No

Didn't you see my rant about the lousy customer service I got at Target last week? AND to top it off, I got a pathetic email from them in response to my email. They're on my fecal matter list. I'm glad somebody got over on them. Vindication!