Viewsonic 37" HDTV $304.50 ships free @ costcentral.com

[GTFan]

Yep, if they did this intentionally to harvest addresses for catalog spam, they won big on this one.

 

[Anonemous]

Their resellerratings just tanked.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Anonemous
Their resellerratings just tanked.

That was hardly fair. RR should remove the negative reviews. Either that or I don't see how RR can be trusted if they allow their site to be used for childish retaliations like this. Those people ordering knew that they were playing the Lotto on a huge price mistake.

BTW, this was not a bait and switch. It was price mistake. A bait and switch would be if they billed credit cards at the higher price and shipped anyway. But they didn't do that, they cancelled orders. It's not like Cost Central profited from this.

 

[trevor0323]

Still waiting for my cancellation, Order around 6am

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: Vic

Originally posted by: Anonemous
Their resellerratings just tanked.

That was hardly fair. RR should remove the negative reviews. Either that or I don't see how RR can be trusted if they allow their site to be used for childish retaliations like this. Those people ordering knew that they were playing the Lotto on a huge price mistake.

BTW, this was not a bait and switch. It was price mistake. A bait and switch would be if they billed credit cards at the higher price and shipped anyway. But they didn't do that, they cancelled orders. It's not like Cost Central profited from this.

Originally posted by: GTFan
Yep, if they did this intentionally to harvest addresses for catalog spam, they won big on this one.

Not going to post any rantings on RR but in this day and age where companies can harvest your info for advertising or what not. Both sides are to blame.

 

[Vic]

Who are they going to advertise to? They pissed off everyone they harvested info from. So that makes no sense...

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Smurf
I wouldn't hold it against them, that they cancled the orders.

Can you imagine, if their cost for these tv's is $600/ea (reasonable) and they lost 300 per set.

If they sold 300 of them, they'd be out $90,000 dollars. I don't know about you, but I'd rather lose a few customers than 90k.

Lets face it though, most of those customers were there to buy a TV set with a pricing error. They wouldn't have come back to buy any items at your regular prices anyway most likely.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

Originally posted by: neilien
I placed and order and it got cancelled.

Normally I wouldn't care. However, the fact that they had it set up with the wrong price and an endless supply seems rather fishy. If it was just one or the other I could understand an error, but both together seems more like it was intentionally done to gather information.

No, that should have been a clue their system was having problems.

 

[trevor0323]

I don't know whats going on but mine still has not been canceled. I am thinking about calling and seeing whats up but don't wanna screw up any chance I have of possibly them sending this TV to me. I got the confirmation email around 7am yesterday and haven't received anything since. On there site when I look in my account under purchases it does not show any. What do you guys think I should do?

 

[Flip37]

Got this email today,

Dear Customer,

We wanted to contact you to apologize and address some concerns regarding your recent order of a Viewsonic N3751W.

On Wednesday March 7th a system error caused an incorrect price to be shown on our website. We would like to apologize for any confusion or inconvenience this error may have caused you.

After order confirmation, our system identified a problem and rejected the order. Per the disclaimer posted on our website, all displayed prices are subject to final approval. Unfortunately, your order was not approved due to the system error and your credit card was never charged.

We would like to assure you that we do not sell or use email address for marketing purposes. Considering your order was canceled, we will be purging your account from our system. You will not receive any further communication from us unless you create a new account.

We understand your time is valuable and would like to make a good faith offer to try and make up for your inconvenience. By adding discount code "DISCOUNT######" to the shipping comments of your next order, you will receive 5% off a single item or free ground shipping for the entire order (which ever is higher). This discount has been generated specifically for you and is not transferable. There is no expiration date on this offer.

Once again we offer our most sincere apologies for your inconvenience.

Sincerely yours,

CostCentral.com

 

[BrokenArrow]

yup, i got the same email. Guess they saw their reseller ratings drop through the floor. LOL. Trying a little damage control.

 

[scootermaster]

I actually ordered 5 of these (5 different credit cards and addresses...had some business associates help me out). So far, I have 3 tracking numbers, we'll see about the other 2.

Of course, I got in on this way early (actually before it was posted)

Ebay here we come!

 

[OVERKILL]

Great reseller ratings http://www.resellerratings.com/store/Cost_Central

.93 for 6 months, not even a 1.

 

[Aimster]

people are a bunch of jackasses.

It was an obvious price mistake and they try to ruin the company by leaving negative feedback.

If anyone actually expects this company to honor the price, then go step outside into the real world.

 

[craftech]

Originally posted by: Aimster
people are a bunch of jackasses.

It was an obvious price mistake and they try to ruin the company by leaving negative feedback.

If anyone actually expects this company to honor the price, then go step outside into the real world.

How dare they ruin people's Ebay profits!

"Jackasses" is a bit too kind. I would have been banned for the word I would have chosen.


John

 

[BrokenArrow]

Originally posted by: scootermaster
I actually ordered 5 of these (5 different credit cards and addresses...had some business associates help me out). So far, I have 3 tracking numbers, we'll see about the other 2.

Of course, I got in on this way early (actually before it was posted)

Ebay here we come!

I call BS. Nobody got the deal, it was a price mistake. EVERYONE got cancelled.