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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.
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
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 contact sales for a quote almost every time
Well this one could be cheaper, but how could I even know, the price isn’t listed.
If you have to ask for a price, it ain’t cheap.
If I have to ask for a price, I ain’t bothering
It’s more about not rewarding their disrespect and greed. Instead rewarding the company being open and upfront and not wasting my time
It’s not cheaper, it costs me time.
Absolutely! And having to tolerate annoying and intrusive 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
If it were cheaper, the price would be listed
I do the same in stores. If there’s no prices listed I’ll just walk away. I absolutely hate surprises at the register.
No price, no sale. I tell myself that whenever I have to walk away from a product that didn’t have a listed price.
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.
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.
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”
(Which isn’t an insane price to just have it sorted, I just hate the bollocks excuses when everyone magically still comes out around £2k)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.
