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Posted by willshak on March 26, 2008, 9:33 am
on 3/25/2008 10:21 PM djay said the following:
> All,
>
> Have you tried the direct buy warehouse? I hear the radio commercial about
> saving thousands on a single purchase. If you've tried it or know someone
> who has, what's been the experience? Positive? Negative? It seems like
> another type of Costco to me.
>
> Djay
>
>
>
http://www.infomercialscams.com/scams/direct_buy_scams
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Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
To email, remove the double zeroes after @
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Posted by hallerb@aol.com on March 26, 2008, 9:52 am
i priced shopped them on some stuff i knew the costs on, minor savings
if any. just another money making scheme:(
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Posted by DerbyDad03 on March 26, 2008, 11:55 am
> on 3/25/2008 10:21 PM djay said the following:
>
> > All,
>
> > Have you tried the direct buy warehouse? =A0I hear the radio commercial =
about
> > saving thousands on a single purchase. =A0If you've tried it or know som=
eone
> > who has, what's been the experience? =A0Positive? =A0Negative? =A0It see=
ms like
> > another type of Costco to me.
>
> > Djay
>
> http://www.infomercialscams.com/scams/direct_buy_scams
>
> --
>
> Bill
> In Hamptonburgh, NY
> To email, remove the double zeroes after @
I read a few of the comments at that site:
"The salesman, Kevin, seemed condescending when we asked him for some
time to mull it over. He told us that maybe this is not for us, then
showed us the door. Rude."
Not neccesarily "rude". I'm not in sales, but on a occasion I have
seen sales-technique presentations. Using words like "perhaps this
isn't for you", said in just the right way, can make a prospect feel
like the salesperson doesn't think they are "good enough" for the
product. The prospect doesn't want to feel degraded and tries to prove
to the salesman that they "deserve" the product just as much as the
next guy. It's part of the Negative Sell technique.
"if you don't sign-up tonight, you CANNOT come back, it is now or
never"
Do sales people actually still try that tactic? With all the press
about the "you must buy now" words, and how fast you should run away
from it, do people still fall for it?
"the salesmen sold me when he explained I would make up the membership
fee and begin saving immediately with the amount of money I was going
to spend anyway to renovate my new home"
My response would have been: "That sounds great. Let me put together
my order, get the price for all my items and then we'll add on the
membership fee. If it's better than I can do elsewhere, we've got a
deal." Obviously, the salesguy will balk. When he does, I'd simply ask
him to suggest another way to prove his statement that "I would make
up the membership fee". Since he can't/won't I think the meeting would
be pretty much over at that point.
"stuff I bought was real close to what I would have paid for it at the
store. The difference is I can sit on it, touch it, feel it, think
about...
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how a person can spend thousands
of dollars on something like a couch or other furniture - something
that they are going to sit on, sleep on, make love on, whatever -
without actually seeing it, sitting on it, lying on it, etc. What good
is a couch, reagardless of the price, if nobody wants to sit on it?
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Posted by dpb on March 26, 2008, 1:27 pm
DerbyDad03 wrote:
...
...other comments from DB comments site elided...
> "stuff I bought was real close to what I would have paid for it at the
> store. The difference is I can sit on it, touch it, feel it, think
> about...
>
> Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how a person can spend thousands
> of dollars on something like a couch or other furniture ...
> without actually seeing it, sitting on it, lying on it, etc. ...
My guess would be most of the yuppies suckered into this deal will use
the facilities of the various other brick-n-mortar stores in town as a
showroom then go order--still another mark against both the store and
the clientele imo.
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Posted by DerbyDad03 on March 26, 2008, 1:57 pm
> DerbyDad03 wrote:
>
> ...
> ...other comments from DB comments site elided...
>
> > "stuff I bought was real close to what I would have paid for it at the
> > store. The difference is I can sit on it, touch it, feel it, think
> > about...
>
> > Maybe it's just me, but I don't see how a person can spend thousands
> > of dollars on something like a couch or other furniture ...
> > without actually seeing it, sitting on it, lying on it, etc. ...
>
> My guess would be most of the yuppies suckered into this deal will use
> the facilities of the various other brick-n-mortar stores in town as a
> showroom then go order--still another mark against both the store and
> the clientele imo.
>
> --
That's assuming you can actually compare what they offer with hard-
assets in a local store. Considering that they apparently don't allow
you do that *before* paying the admission fee, them there yuppies
would be taking a rather significant risk.
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