New boots - my husband is a sweetie! But StateLine Tack is ticking me off!

[FatCatFarm]

I have a birthday this month and wanted new boots. I picked them out and sent my husband the link. Stateline Tack has a big banner up - get $25% your order! I thought schweet! So I sent him the link to the boots on that site.

Well, it’s bullshit! :mad: Today I went through the order process myself and it’s not 25% off the advertised price. When you go to check out, they jack up the price and claim that you saved 25% by shopping there. Seriously?

So I emailed my husband and said don’t order from there. He just called me and the sweet man had already ordered them. But I am still ticked at Stateline. I’m not finding them any cheaper anywhere else so the point is maybe moot but the tactic still pisses me off.

Okay. /rant.

[Flash]

Yeah stateline does their “percent off” based on

1. Which link you click (it’s kind of like VistaPrint. Some links are 10%, 15%, etc)
2. The percent has already been taken off in the price

[FatCatFarm]

Irritating is what it is!

[Dramapony_misty]

Unfortunately that is a very common practice in retail. My DH used to work in a winter sporting goods shop and told me that when they ran their big “30%” sales, they would jack up the prices to suggested retail or higher for the week before. In reality, the “big sale” prices were only slightly lower (like 5%) then their usual in-store price.

Kind of like Dover advertising 25 % off something, but it is really 20% off and then 5% USEF discount (if you are a member) off of that lowered price. It really doesn’t add up to 25% off the original price.

[FatCatFarm]

I’ve got to give props to State Line Tack for at least making it right. My birthday was yesterday and my husband gave me the boots, which I love. So I was going to write a review and noticed when I went to the State Line Tack website that the boots were now advertised at the price they should have been with the 25% off. I called customer care and they are refunding the difference which is nearly $56. So glad I checked and followed-up!