So I went shopping for that last piece of item today and sure enough I did a price match. It’s always interesting when the customer service reps are also surprised at how much cheaper a competitor is selling the item for. You can’t help but to think it is a price error. Overall, saved about $5 on top of the lower price due to a price beat guarantee.
I was then talking to my friend who actually works for the company that I bought the item from and he was telling me that the item itself is about 20% off the retail price if he was to buy it at a staff discount. Based on the numbers, it looked like I saved about 30% off the retail price which means it was 10% less than what a staff could buy it for. Even in these cases where if you are the employee of a company you still need to shop around for deals huh? That would be funny if the same held true for people who actually work for the manufacturer of the items as opposed to simply the retail outlets that are reselling them.