Originally posted by: ZoNtO
Sorry guys, got this memo at work today (dated 7/1):
Why do they call it "pre-print, instead of "sales circular", since the circular was already printed and in active distribution at the time that memo was (allegedly) written?
Because that's how CompUSA does it. Some say potato, say potato, and why would what they call the ads have anything to do with it. Next rebuttle.
Specifically "gamers", and not "customers"?
Btw, as documented in some threads on other messageboards, CompUSA had taken online orders for those "not released" cards, even before that discounted sales circular. (Eg. at full price.)
Someone also reported in this thread that a manager offered to do a pre-pay, but only for full price, even though the current sales circular clearly stated a discount. That's straight-up bait-and-switch.
Online orders are preorders for those cards. Give me the name of one person that has
received the card, and I'll shut up. BTW genius, you can go and preorder Doom III, but then if iD doesn't ship it does that mean bait and switch? Didn't think so... Just because it's in the system or available to preorder, doesn't mean that the company can pull things out of their butt and hand them to you. Thanks.
Someone reported seeing the actual cards sitting in the back room of their store. As was reported in this thread, anticipated arrival of the cards was on 7/1, so that shouldn't be surprising to see them. If that's true, then that clause in the memo is false.
Can't say that this is true or false, not my place. My store hasn't received them, but that's one store. Maybe others have... Anyway, the "anticipated arrival" of the cards was 7/1, then 7/3, then oh wait it doesn't matter cuz the 30% off ad is over. People hear something and put it down like it's proven fact, well I never heard anything about the "anticipated date", so show me that in print and I'll shut up.
Again, (apparently) false.
Again, (apparently) show me a real, physical card that's been shipped from CompUSA.com and I'll shut up.
Here's where I'm calling BS. That alleged "memo", looks like it was written by some teenager that posts to online 3D-gaming forums. That doesn't sound very "corporate" to me, at all. Especially with the spelling mistakes.
I'm a teenager. I post in online 3D-gaming forums, online FS/FT forums, online "Off Topic" forums, and online "Hot Deals" forums! Hell, I've posted even in an online "Motherboards" forum! Wowza! Do you honestly think that I have nothing better to do than think of fake memos that I can post online. The only reason I started posted here was to help people out because I work there. You can take that as you may virtuallarry, but I'm not a "virtualcompusaemployee".
BTW, the spelling mistakes are my own doing. Sometimes I don't give a rats if a few words are mispelled, I will not edit that post to reflect that. So tar and feather me...
Interesting, since they have already made the offer, and taken several people's money. If they were not to honor their advertised special, I think that that would be open to fines or lawsuits. Again, if that were a legitimate memo from "corp", I would think it would state to not take any more pre-pays, not to dis-honor existing ones. That just screams "fraud".
The memo was put out by Corporate. Corporate is not an entity that controls the actions of everyone employed by the company. Obviously the memo was put out on 7/1, which I stated and if you were intelligent you would realize that the memo was sent to remedy events that had already happened, ie the prepay of cards that were NOT supposed to be prepaid for. Usually you fix a problem after it's happened, not before. Next
What does their "low price commitment", have to do with their advertised specials? This isn't price-matching, this is something that CompUSA themselves advertised. I don't see how that applies at all.
If they were talking about pricematching, it would be called "Unmatched" which is also the installation and training program as well. Low price commitment isn't a specific term that is used all the time, so why read into it more than that. CompUSA tries to gives consumers good prices on their hardware, but I could see where some confusion would be drawn from that. Don't really know why that term was used, but later it describes prices and what those prices are honored on. Clearly "internet offers, etc.. *might* and I say *might* because I'm obviously just a stupid teenager that posts in online 3D-gaming forums, but it *might* mean the 6800 series of cards and any one of their associating statutes.
Well, obviously. But CompUSA must have not thought ahead, about the possibilities here and the timing of their "old stock clearance" sale. The ad does say "all" PNY graphics cards, after all.
Pardon everyone on the world for not being as intelligent as you are virtuallarry. Sometimes things happen that aren't foreseen. One time, when I was 16 years old, I got backed into by a big truck when I was doing my paper route, and it screwed up my door. Curse me and my hooligan ways! Who honestly drives and delivers papers in the morning when there are big, white trucks amiss?!?! I should have forseen that and stayed in my bed all day, cuz I just knew I was going to get hit!
Give me a break man, people make mistakes and other people take advantage of that and then cry when the mistakes are remedied. The old saying, "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone" comes to mind right now, because sometimes people make mistakes. If I could draw, I would do a little picture for you of a bunch of guys in suits crowded around a crystal ball flipping it off while the crystal ball itself shows a picture of thousands of gleeful consumers frolicking in a field with armfuls of pretty little 6800 cards. "Curse you
"Tell us every possible thing that could go wrong with every item in the store and every word printed in the ad" crystal ball, CURSE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
NEXT!
Well, good luck. Hope you don't get fired for posting an internal corp. memo on an internet messageboard. Just don't tell anyone which store you work at, I guess.
(That is, if that was in fact an official memo, which I somehow highly doubt, myself. Unless it was written from the head office in Mexico, maybe that explains the spelling mistakes.)
You do NOT intimidate me with your wishes laced with sarcasm. I can't believe that some people sit here and try to argue with me for just trying to help you guys out. I tried to get the 6800 card as well, but I'm not going to obsess about it. It's a video card for Pete's sake. I don't even know you and you bash me like we're arch-enemies or I stole yo' girrrrrrrrrrrl! Get off of your pedestal and quit trying to demean me and the company because you think you're smarter than everyone. All I ever did was try and help people out with what I found out about the situation from my work, nothing more, nothing less. I wished the best of luck to the people with their prepays and also to show that the store's should now be aware of the fact that they are not supposed to do prepays on the 6800 cards in question. If you have a problem with that, so be it, but that's all it was, a simple attempt to be nice. Sometimes I wonder if you're the guy that came into work today wanted to return an opened copy of Windows XP home in the plastic "shell" that was obviously ripped open and telling me that it wasn't open and that not returning was "bull @#$%". Well, I'm not the one who puts forth the rules so don't take your frustrations of not getting in on the "deal" out on me.
Thank you and good night!
BTW, my name is Riley Lovendale and I work at store 262, CSR rep and proud of it. Oh yes, and I am a pimply-faced 18 year old that posts on 3D online-gaming forums.
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