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There's Always Another Sale Thread -- Discussions Only Pt 6

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,875
    edited May 25

    AI Overview

    Online stores are legally allowed to hide or lower prices until the cart primarily due to Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) agreements, along with privacy strategies, data collection, and system functions. [1, 2, 3]

    • Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) Agreements: Manufacturers set rules prohibiting retailers from publicly advertising prices below a certain threshold. Because a public product page is considered an advertisement, retailers use a loophole by making you add the item to your digital cart, which is treated as a private point-of-sale interaction rather than a public ad.
    • Evading Web Crawlers: Manufacturers use automated web crawlers to scan the internet and penalize retailers who violate MAP rules. Bots cannot add items to a shopping cart to see the hidden discounts, allowing retailers to bypass automated enforcement.
    • Customer Engagement: Hiding prices acts as a psychological hook, encouraging the user to take an active step (putting the item in the cart) to reveal the price, which psychologically increases the likelihood of completing the purchase.
    • Real-Time Data Collection: Tracking items in carts allows retailers to better profile user interest and measure conversion funnels, even if the item is eventually abandoned. 

    Shocked, shocked I am, the world has changed

     

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  • TomhipTomhip Posts: 605

    To be honest its probably in line with recent sales over all. The Soup sale just came out of nowhere and was pretty sweet.

  • TorquinoxTorquinox Posts: 4,605
    edited May 25

    To me, just looking at the sale, the biggest problem is per generation coupons where each generation requires a buy in from a blob of expensive new items that don't interest me.
     

    It's not that I'm serious about shopping, but a really good deal could have opened my wallet. These are not the deals I'm looking for.

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  • jmucchiellojmucchiello Posts: 1,316

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Online stores are legally allowed...

    Just because they can do a thing is not a reason they should do a thing. Hidden pricing says to customer, "Just give me your money. I don't care about you at all." 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 110,167

    The minimum price is noted, this isn't a rule that gets revealed only on reaching the cart. II can certainly appreciate that it is frustrating to add an item only to find that it increases in price in cart, and we have certainly pointed it out to Daz, but it is not a sleight of hand.

  • butterflyfishbutterflyfish Posts: 1,603

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    AI Overview

    Online stores are legally allowed to hide or lower prices until the cart primarily due to Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) agreements, along with privacy strategies, data collection, and system functions. [1, 2, 3]

    • Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) Agreements: Manufacturers set rules prohibiting retailers from publicly advertising prices below a certain threshold. Because a public product page is considered an advertisement, retailers use a loophole by making you add the item to your digital cart, which is treated as a private point-of-sale interaction rather than a public ad.
    • Evading Web Crawlers: Manufacturers use automated web crawlers to scan the internet and penalize retailers who violate MAP rules. Bots cannot add items to a shopping cart to see the hidden discounts, allowing retailers to bypass automated enforcement.
    • Customer Engagement: Hiding prices acts as a psychological hook, encouraging the user to take an active step (putting the item in the cart) to reveal the price, which psychologically increases the likelihood of completing the purchase.
    • Real-Time Data Collection: Tracking items in carts allows retailers to better profile user interest and measure conversion funnels, even if the item is eventually abandoned. 

    Shocked, shocked I am, the world has changed

     

    They've always been allowed to lower prices once you're in the cart. DAZ is raising them. Not cool.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,872

    I can't imagine anyone appreciates advertised prices being raised once the decision is made to add the item to the cart. Daz must be making money on that scheme or they'd probably stop doing it. I wonder how many people don't notice that the price goes up and just assume they are paying what the product page said. Maybe that percentage is high enough to counteract all of us complainers who just dump the products or empty the cart and go away angry.

  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,872

    Richard Haseltine said:

    The minimum price is noted, this isn't a rule that gets revealed only on reaching the cart. II can certainly appreciate that it is frustrating to add an item only to find that it increases in price in cart, and we have certainly pointed it out to Daz, but it is not a sleight of hand.

    If people just shop the store or their wishlist and don't go searching through other Daz web pages, they do not see any fine print about minimum prices. The higher price IS only revealed in the cart  It should not be necessary to be suspicious of prices advertised on the product pages. Are you aware of any other online store that actually raises product prices once they are added to the shopping cart? I've never experienced that myself, that I am aware of.

  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,543

    Well, on a more positive note, I ignored today's sales and instead built a cart of 13 Outlet Store and Quick Grab items. All the prices were really nice and they didn't go up in the cart. A win!
    And while I picked and chose what I wanted to not overspend, if Daz does any late-in-the-month "10 OS items for half price," I'll likely be back in!

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