I am bad at internet.
just received Merry Christmas email from Game Designer's Workshop through DriveThru.
Email says a product has a special low low price of $0.00, but clicking in shows a price of many more dollars than zero.
How did I internet wrong?
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maybe add to your cart? see if it's $0 there.
ReplyDeleteDid. Am told too many have used coupon. Now this is what I need than i never knew i needed.
ReplyDeleteconsumerist.com - What Is The "Bait and Switch" And When Is It Illegal?
ReplyDeleteTony Lower-Basch Its DriveThru and GDW. It is much easier for me to believe incompetence -- mine or theirs -- than malfeasance.
ReplyDeleteDid they say "limited quantities" in the flyer they sent you?
ReplyDeleteBecause if they didn't, it's not a question of intent.
sue! sue! (no, don't)
ReplyDeleteIs incompetence a defense -- morally or legally -- against claims of bait and switch?
ReplyDeleteI don't know! I really don't. Legally especially.
Morally, I think it is. That is, to do so because you internet badwrong is different than to do so with the intention of defauding. So it feels to me.
Yeah, I agree with you, in fact.
ReplyDeleteBut you're sitting here beating yourself up (or so I perceive) for having been pulled in by what is, objectively, a bait and switch, even if an accidental one.
So, y'know, don't beat yourself up ... it's a tactic so powerful that it is outlawed because of how unfairly persuasive it is. It's no surprise that it pulled you in.
i believe this applies with regard to incompetence as well as ignorance
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
If that's their defense, then they better fix the issue when you contact them and ask.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't seem to be a contact us on DrivEThru that goes to the publisher. And they don't seem to have much of a web presence.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, today of all days is the day I'd want Traveller deck plans. Because that's the sort of nerding I am right now.
The beating myself up, Tony Lower-Basch , was an intentional coming from a place of humility and assuming I'd click buttons wrong. Which seemed wise given chipotle for lunch -- my brain isn't quite at 100%.
But, yeah, it looks like they messed up somewhere.
Appaears to have been a cookie issue!
ReplyDeleteWent back to the page from home computer, and everything worked.
So you got your Traveller-ship fix? Yay!
ReplyDeleteYeah. Its just also across several dozen files, rather than being a single pdf. Ah well, not like I need much more than a free trader.
ReplyDeleteThis is corrective action: the file is now maybe free for everyone until the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteLink: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product_info.php?products_id=126973&affiliate_rem=4209