Price Beat List of Stores

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  Wakrak on 09/10/2022 - 14:52

  Some more (could be outdated)
  https://www.cheapies.nz/wiki/pricematch

  Anyone can update that Wiki page (I think).

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    qtboi on 09/10/2022 - 14:54

    +1

    Thanks for that - I didn't know that page existed! Made my day haha!

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  Grandma on 09/10/2022 - 15:21

  There's something to be said for stores that pay on a commission too like harveys or noel leeming. You can trade having to sit through a warranty pitch for getting a bit knocked off of the lowest price on pricespy

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  ThatKiwiFella on 10/10/2022 - 09:47

  I recently had a price beat denied at Bunnings because the other item was ‘on sale’ at the other retailer. I asked her when that had changed as I’ve previously been able to price beat on items on sale and their policy doesn’t state anything like that and got “has been that way as long as I’ve worked here”

  Went to the car, called their hotline and confirmed that it would be eligible for a price beat and they had no idea where the operator had gotten that idea from.

  Went back in store to her, told her about the phone conversation I’d just had, she then called her manager to confirm and her manager said that they do price beat on sale items. She tried her hardest to get out of it despite the manager giving the green light, “oh I’ve been told this”, “are you sure because I’ve been told…” etc for about 5 minutes.

  Eventually succeeded in the price beat but hoping this doesn’t indicate a potential change in the future.

  What annoyed me about it was the fact she would’ve done this to other customers and the lack of apology for her misunderstanding

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    Foodie on 10/10/2022 - 13:48

    +1

    I dunno why staff get so invested in trying to defend price lowering so hard.
    A quick list of exceptions, if nothing wrong just do it. U cost the business more by arguing it.

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      ThatKiwiFella on 10/10/2022 - 18:01

      Haha tell me about it, defending it like their paycheque depends on it!

      Not even sure where she got the idea that they don’t price beat on sale items, their price beat policy is very clear cut

      What should’ve been a 5 minute trip took 45 minutes.

      My experience at most other stores such as Mitre10 have always been a breeze

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  Arsonist on 10/10/2022 - 10:00

  I tried to do a price beat at Supercheap Auto.
  Took forever to get to a live agent on their online chat. Sent thrm the details of the price beat. "No problem, we will email you a discount code to use". Took a few hours to recieve the discount code. Code didnt work. Waited for ages to speak to another Live agent. Turns out the code had been created for the Australian supercheap website. Waited for them to price beat again and make a code for the NZ website. Said the discount code would be emailed again. Didn't recieve the code until the next day, and it was the wrong amount of discount. In the end, I gave up and purchased the item from somewhere else.

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  Surreal on 10/10/2022 - 10:04

  With some of the stores deliberately avoiding stocking the same products as their competitors, I'd benefit from hearing people's strategies for what types and brands of products to try to get matched, and where.

  e.g. I stumbled upon the realization at Mitre 10 recently that they had a much higher price than the Warehouse for some household batteries I wanted (and yet I was planning to drop in the warehouse afterwards). So that was an easy lookup on the app to get a successful price beat at the Mitre 10 checkout.

  Sistema I guess is sold in many places so I'd expect it to always pay before buying them, to not visit the cheapest store but instead the competitor that will price beat with % discount.

  Any other general strategies?

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    Wakrak on 10/10/2022 - 12:15

    I just hope that The Warehouse doesn't get rid of too many of the other brands (in an effort to replace em with their Market Kitchen products). Oak and Vanish for example are on their way out.

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      ace310 on 10/10/2022 - 13:10

      If that happens, it will die a slow painful death.

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    Foodie on 10/10/2022 - 13:52

    Nespresso machines. Some stores will stock almost identical machines with slightly different serial numbers.
    One briscoes did that vs a jbhifi price beat, so went to another store that had exactly the same model (newer stock apparently)
    The guy didnt want to beat by 10% so i pointed out the giant price promise 10% poster and he reluctantly did it 😀