Office Max Scam
Okie
paper a pack of 50 HP premium photo paper for $24. I went there this morning
to buy some and they were all out. The manager said he didn't know when they
will get any more and wouldn't give me a raincheck. He then suggested I buy
the more expensive photo paper. He didn't like my response. This was the
office max in Salt Lake City.
Jaybird
can you do? They will eventually lose their market share and go out of
business.
Jan Alter
was there as the store opened and asked for one. The manager checked in the
back and said there were none left, then showed me the ad saying that
"quantities were limited to in store stock. He also said that some stores
did not have any. I asked him where in the ad it said that and where did it
say that some stores wouldn't have any at all? He had no answer and I left
telling him that treating customers in this manner is lousy business. As I
was getting into my car he came out and asked for my name and telephone
number and said he would see if he could get me one.
An hour later he called me and said he could sell me another CD-ROM, a 52X
for the same price. I came back later in the afternoon and picked it up. It
works fine. It's obvious that despite the company's lack of integrity this
manager had some.
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Jan Alter
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Peach
items...........The employees are gun-shy because of people being
soooooooooooooo pissed. They blame it on Corporate!
I now use them for any sale item they have that I want (cherry picking, I
think is the word), best way to get even with a company!
Joe
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Mr. Transistor
difficulty, and is planning to close quite a few stores.
Peach
sad item is that the "corporate people" will be able to "find" new jobs,
while the workers will be put back on the "sh*# list".
Joe
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Richard L. George
consistent experience that ...
(1) Durn near every business firm offering "super deals" (including but not
limited to CompUSA, Circuit City, Best Buy, Office Max, Office Depot, etc.)
uses both limited quantities and "limited to stock on hand" language to
control their promo costs. I've seen people line up around a building two
hours before opening when some of those "super deal" ads ran in the
newspaper. (I wasn't in the line, I was driving to breakfast!) The first
five or ten people in line usually clean out the "most super" deals like
locusts devouring a grain crop.
Anyway, without defending any deception or rudeness of which OMax might
actually be guilty, it does not seem fair or accurate to single them out for
criticism of practices which are almost universal to every retailer. If you
want to participate in the super-savings game, those are the rules you must
play by, like them or not. You wanna play baseball, you only get three
strikes at bat.
(2) I've gone to Office Max on numerous occasions in response to sale ads
and found they either still had the sale item in stock or had had some and
sold them all. I'd say about 80% of the time, I get the sale or rebate item
I visit them for. I have also received every Office Max tie-in rebate I've
submitted for products purchased there without having to follow up, which I
cannot say for rebate offers at all other merchants. Some of my rebates
elsewhere have taken up to a year and I've had to follow up as many as five
or six times!
So, it may only be the OMax in my area doesn't get as many bargain hunters
as elsewhere, or I've gone in for things which were a little less popular
than the things others have been disappointed not to receive. But, for
whatever reason, in Virginia Beach, VA, the "reliability and performance" of
OMax in terms of having sale and rebate items on hand has been as good or
better than most other retailers.
Ken Brown
After finding out that Best Buy in Memphis is always out of their best
buys from the Sunday ads when the doors open Sunday morning, Best Buy
became my store of last resort. Also, Best Buy never has enough
cashiers.
Try www.bhphotovideo.com for printers, paper, scanners, as well as for
photography equipment. When ordering from their web site, you know
immediately if the item is in stock, and the price is usually better
than the sale prices of Office Max, Office Depot, Best Buy etc. even
when shipping is factored in. The longest I have ever waited for a
shipment with FedEx Saver shipping was four days(ordered on a weekend)
and usually less.
I have no connection with B&H, other than as a customer.