I see that more members are trying the Staples deal. So I will repost this again and also ATHENA'S . Please read and leave Staples for another deal. While Dell's is STILL SOLID !
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What do you think it better?
1. PM at Staples (worth the hassel?)
2. Just buy from Dell.com [/i] >>
Hmmmmmmmm is this a trick question ? NO NJ 6% TAX , NO Next Day Air Delivery (Thank You,God for making it FEDEX and not satan's UPS !). NO PM, NO going out to Staples in this friggen heat and humidity.
Alex I will take "Just buy from Dell.com " for 33.20 . Thank you.after MIR
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ATHENA'S
«Has anyone else heard about this supposed change in PMing policy?»
[*]The Brick & Mortar policy is not the same as the one for Staples.com and the match is always at the discretion of the store manager.
[*]We had a rather graphic posting in this forum today that illustrated the fallibility of customer provided documents and why printouts cannot be assumed to be valid proof of a valid match. You may recall the big Kodak DC4800 fiasco in April that resulted in matches to an invalid price at Camera Sound and faked documentation to prolong the dead deal; episode that was no doubt responsible for some disturbing monthly results for that product manager. After that incident, all Staples managers were advised to tighten up on their matching procedures for Internet deals. Unfortunately, most stores do not have readily available Internet access and cannot verify Internet offerings or check stock availability themselves so a lot of them are now just automatically refuse all matches to Internet vendors.
The revenue lost from price matching comes directly out of the store manager's bottom line; there is no corporate compensation as there is for the coupons. Whether or not he wants to take the hit is completely up to him.