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Originally Posted by biosurfer1
I'm all for buying local, but a 25% price difference? No way
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Depends on whether the local stocks it and the online doesn't. Hard to compete when you stock the item and the online retailer doesn't. I never ask a brick and mortar to match an online retailer but I own a business. People call me all the time saying "I can buy that same machine for X$ less than your machine" I quickly tell them "then you better buy it as soon as we hang up, because if I find it, it will be gone"
The reason a lot of places don't budge is because the "I can buy it for less over there" thing is so overplayed. Then you get the asshats that aren't doing apples to apples comparisons trying to beat you down on price when the two items aren't even really the same. I love doing what I do but sometimes dealing with people can become tiresome.