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Guess i’ll take my business elsewhere. Too bad nobody else in this world sells desks 😘
I’d guess they don’t actually want to sell you a desk. They are probably in the business of selling hundreds of desks for offices, and this is their way of keeping out the small purchases that they aren’t targeting.
That’s just lazy. They can put min order quantity to achieve the same effect.
I don’t think you need to have ADHD to not want to put up with shit like this.
I have ADHD and even said the same thing seeing this.
I don’t think you need to have ADHD to read the only rule of the sub…
Do we really need this comment on every fucking post? No one claimed the meme is a diagnostic criteria.
But it’s in an ADHD meme community, isn’t that the point of this community?
No. No it is not.
Nobody here is a doctor trying to diagnose anyone. We’re simply sharing memes that we feel are relatable, no matter if it’s relatable to normal humans or not, is a matter of exactly how much it effects your life.
For example, someone in this position with ADHD might have issues with talking on the phone because they don’t remember everything they need to ask. This gives them anxiety enough to not even call and might even hinder their mental ability to move on to another “task” because their task of calling about the desk, can’t be done.
All in all, if a behavior seen in this community effects you in a REALLY negative way, see a doctor.
If the adhd community gets full of random posts and not even things colloquially related to adhd, it won’t be much of an adhd community.
100%
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4051762
Just because it applies to those without ADHD, Doesnt make it less applicable to ADHD.
What part of being annoyed at no price listings or having to call to figure out a simple piece of info is unique in any way what so ever to adhd?
Not unique to ADHD, perhaps, but the added step is a bigger deal to those with ADHD. Having to stop what I’m doing to make a call makes it more likely that I won’t complete my original task. I have trouble completing tasks on a daily basis so needless interruptions like this make me feel more annoyed than would probably be considered reasonable by someone without ADHD .There’s also nothing that’s terribly unique to ADHD because our symptoms are things that happen to most non-adhd people occasionally turned up in frequency and severity to a debilitating degree.
What part of “just because it applies to everyone, doesn’t mean it doesn’t apply to ADHD” means that it’s unique to ADHD?🤨
That’s literally the exact opposite of what I said.
I’m asking fir ANY relation, fool. What part of, “what part” confuses you?
I upvoted your other comments but downvoted this one. Don’t be a dick. Discuss the topic, but don’t do ad hominem insults
Even worse: when you have to call to cancel a subscription.
I subscribed online, I should be able to cancel online.
Of course, it’s also hidden deep in the terms of service that you can’t cancel online. They know what they’re doing.
What is the point of consumer protection laws if brands can just write “nuh-uh?”
We updated the terms of service. You cannot sue us for getting all your data stolen.
Think California specifically made a law that whatever the sign up method is there must also exist that method for cancellation.
Laws against bs.
If you’d like to pay via PayPal, contact our sales team.
For fuck’s sake, either you accept PayPal or you don’t. What kind of shady behind-the-curtains bullshit are you trying to pull?
The API for the PayPal checkout workflow is too complicated for us, but one of us knows how to manually type in the order details to send you an invoice.
Hahahaha, yep
They’ll probably send you the paypal friends link, which you can’t use for business purposes lol
Same with certain home improvement companies that hope once you’re on the line, they can close the sale there and then.
I swear they must make all their money off people who don’t want to think about what the job involves, and just hand over a chequebook.The water softener from Costco is £500, the one from ScrewFix is £400, but I’m curious how much the one from NameBrand is.
NameBrand website “Well, it can vary a lot depending on how complicated…”
Forum posts: “£2k including fitting and a year’s salt, £1500 for the unit”The physical staircase will cost me about £1000, then a few days of skilled labour for someone to fit.
I wonder how much one of those “we’ll just handle it” companies in the back of the sunday supplement could do it for…Oh, that’s 15 times the price, wonderful.I get what your saying and obviously overpaying by 15x, like in your example is a terrible idea but, I will say, overpaying by a much smaller amount to save time is sometimes worth it.
One thing your example does not do, and its something most people don’t do is factor in how much your time is worth. Is spending an extra $500, for example, worth as much as multiple hours of your time?
I absolutely agree.
Honestly, if NameBrand posted their prices, I might have considered them, as once my time organising/plumbing (or paying a plumber) is factored in, the difference isn’t so massive.
I just loathe the principle of having to get a quote for even the basic device in a box!
There’s an art supply store Michaels, they don’t list so much as a paint brush price on their site. This combined with their incessant need to ask me for my email every time I buy even one tiny thing at their store, ensures that I’m never going there again. From what I understand the employees get in trouble if they don’t ask and get emails which is bullshit
I just looked and everything has listed prices on their site. I thought it was weird you said they don’t list paint brushes cause I buy them from there somewhat frequently.
I use the Michael’s and joann’s apps for the coupons cause almost everything in those stores is overpriced. But the coupons are usually worth it.
Feel the same way about restaurants that don’t have prices on their menu.
Basically assume “if you have to ask you can’t afford it” because if the price wasn’t an immediate deal breaker they wouldn’t be withholding it.
Same with job listing, of they don’t list the salary it’s because they know that stating the salary would make you less likely to apply.
Tbh I think that bugs everyone not just us lol
yeah fuck that.
if they make you jump through hoops it was probably a shit deal anyway
I do the same in stores. If there’s no prices listed I’ll just walk away. I absolutely hate surprises at the register.
What sort of places do this?
Thankfully not too many, Often I’ll find some things are marked but not everything in smaller stores like some grocery, variety stores, second hand shops etc.
No price, no sale. I tell myself that whenever I have to walk away from a product that didn’t have a listed price.
I “walk away” online as well.
“Sign in to get price”.
Guess what, it’s never a mind blowing low price. It’s like $5.00 less than normal. Hidden prices are never a deal.You’re being too generous…
It’s usually the exact same price or higher.
Or MSRP minus 10%, which they’re keen to draw attention to, despite the fact it’s on normal sites for MSRP -30%.
Or it’s at -35% MSRP with “handling fees” that put it back at -30%
Costco online is the only exception to this, for me. You need a paid account to shop there anyway, so I’m willing to jump through that hoop most of the time. It’s still a pain, and I’ve definitely closed the tab a few times on Costco when I was pretty sure I was getting a better deal somewhere else.
There actually can be bs from a manufacturer where a site cannot list an item below their MSRP so in order to do a sale they have to do the bs like “add to cart to see price” or making you sign in. Sure sometimes it’s not an amazing deal but it can often be the lowest price you can find an item because they aren’t allowed to advertise a price that low.
MAP (minimum advertised price) is often different from MSRP, but otherwise this comment is correct.
In some industries, like RVs or auto parts, the vast majority of products have a MAP. The manufacturers also have bots that scan the internet for MAP violations, and they’ll blacklist a vendor if they don’t fix the price within a day or two. (Which is really annoying when there’s a false positive and I get blamed for it.)
I think it’s partly so high volume vendors can’t put smaller vendors out of business by just reducing their margins as much as possible, and it’s partly because the manufacturer doesn’t want their products to look like they’re really cheap. Customers feel better about finding a “great deal” on an “expensive” product.
i have one amazon account i’m locked out from because i forgot the name i used to sign up for it (there are numerous ways i could’ve written it and they only gave me three attempts) and another one that’s blocked because i incorrectly filled my credit card details while ordering a gift card and about to just create a third one because they want me to call them and talk to support for both cases.
Password manager with auto-fill can prevent both issues :)
how so? it would just offer me a list of possible combinations of name/surnames.
i could’ve written them in four different languages (english, ukrainian, russian, polish), and that’s not even including transcription into latin for ukrainian and russian.
and also they don’t even say if they expect name-surname or surname-name ordering, so the check is fundamentally broken and impossible to pass reliably.also the password managers usually don’t save cvv and even if they did I’d have to disable that feature because I’m using dynamic cvv that refreshes every hour
it would just offer me a list of possible combinations of name/surnames.
The password manager suggests the details you saved for amazon, usually at sign-in. It doesn’t just show you a list of everything you ever typed into a form field.
Mine got blocked for repeatedly calling to say items were not delivered.
I hsve taken more I’ve given Amazon so that’s a win for me.
I buy a lot of things for work and if I can find a company that has the price listed I go with them over the one that makes me contract sales for a quote almost every time
Well this one could be cheaper, but how could I even know, the price isn’t listed.
It’s not cheaper, it costs me time.
Especially considering that most of the time you’ll sit on hold which can be awhile
If the company says “call” I ain’t even going to bother because my 30 minutes is more valuable to me than whatever price they could say 99.9% of the time
Absolutely! And having to tolerate sales people
This could be a great use for a voice AI chat bot connected to your phone line. Prompt it with something like,
“You’re on a phone call to [Widgets Inc] to get a price quote for a [box of premium widgets]. You’ll probably be put on hold to speak with the next available sales representative. Just wait until you get a person on the line. Then, ask for the price and immediately start negotiating for a better price. Use whatever strategy you want but never agree to whatever price they offer. Keep coming up with more ridiculous reasons that they should give you an even better price.”
Then dial the phone, turn it over to the chat bot, and wander off to go do more important things.
I feel like the new samsung already has this feature
I like the cut of your jib
Avoiding those are priceless
Are there any notable examples where it is? I’m not aware of any.
With office furniture it’s a little more common.
They like that sweet and stupid startup money.
Just had one with atlantis. Straight up asked for the pricing of 17sqm delivered to metro melbourne.
'Oooh it depends on faaaactors. Tell ya what, how 'bout i get one of our sales guys to call you and work out the best product solution"
"Nope, 17sqm product xx, plus delivery to metro melbourne. That’s it’
‘Yes but factors’
Fucking bye Felicia
Timber merchants in the UK. The ones that don’t list prices are cheaper. Largely because they base their prices on the current price of wood. Those that advertised prices need a higher margin to tolerate fluctuations in the price of wood.
Huh. Interesting! Thanks for the example!
If you have to ask for a price, it ain’t cheap.
If I have to ask for a price, I ain’t bothering
If it were cheaper, the price would be listed
Sometimes you can blame the partnership agreement for that. Some manufacturers will have a MAP (minimum advertised price) and the distributor would be in violation of their contract if they showed it publicly.
Though that just shifts to being a manufacturer problem with the same result. Just saying it may not be the distributor being weird about pricing.
At that point it’s more about not rewarding their disrespect and greed and rewarding the company being open and upfront
Exactly
Reward the company that respects me enough to not waste my time
During the call: “The table is how much???”
I moved last year. I looked into so many companies that drop off a box for later pickup. Only one of them (U-Haul) published their prices and they were very affordable.
They published their price because their marketing advantage was price.
And when it arrives on your doorstep, you realize that you just rented a wooden pallet with wobbly plywood walls and a thick vinyl tarp over it 😂
It looked like a hobo’s shack!
I’d still choose them again due to cost but I was shocked at the actual product. Lead with the price indeed.
This is why if there is no price I’m out - I’m getting taken advantage of
I agree, I pretty much won’t do “Contact Us for Pricing” unless it’s construction work or something, but man, have you seen the Uhaul moving box in person?
It’s a wooden pallet with wobbly plywood walls and a tarp on it. It looks like something you’d see in a homeless camp.
I’d do it again but damn, the price definitely matches the quality.Well, sometimes you don’t want the cheapest either.
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