Three weeks ago, I posted about my experiences with a retailer (software company) that was hounding me to buy their lastest upgrade and how they kept changing the offer - to make it look different, but it always remained the same.
Can you believe that they're still trying?
Initially, their offer was "save over 50%" by purchasing a $199,99 product for $99.99.
Then, there was "save 80%" as they repriced the $199.99 to $499.99 (although no one ever pays this MSRP).
The price to me was always $99.99 - with a few bonus software packages thrown in - no matter what they claimed the "real" price to be.
Then, there were the too-many-to-remember countdown emails as the "absolute deadline" to act approached. Then a telephone call the day before the offer "expired." Then another email the day of the expiration.
That has been followed by a couple more emails including one earlier this week to "save $400."
Today, I got an email "time is running out" and how after June 30th (what happened to the previous deadline?) the price will forvever return to the $499.99.
Why should I believe them? Why should any of us ever believe them? They have proven to be untrustworthy all along the way.
My conclusion is that the product is not a great value and not worth considering. However, it makes great blogging material.
I know the product is not worth having for two reasons - (1) their elaborate, never-say-die, unending promotion with evovling approaches and moving deadline to act and (2) the fact that the previous two versions that I did buy because they were supposed to work so much better than the ones they replaced did not - and I no longer have them on my computer.
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Hi Steve
We are on overloaded with e-mail offers; it comes down to just saying no (delete).
Good luck and success.
Lou Ludwig
Lou,
We surely are. It really hurst when a company you have worked with in the past just can't take "no" for an answer. It really injures their rating. :)
Steve
Steve - Curious, what product?
Phony ads like that hurt all of us. When we post a real bargain, people think it's a scam. Like the ads you get. No wonder when we offer a cream puff of a property, some people question it.
Ryan,
It's one of those all-in-one, do-everything, scanning OCR products. :)
Steve
Kenneth,
There also is a limited time that an offer is believable. :)
Steve