I was duped.
I bought an item I’ve been thinking about for some time now, a portable WiFi.
Because these days, access to the internet is everything and you’d be missing so much at work while working away from the office if you won’t get a good one. Perhaps that’s what’s missing about the goodbye to the office blog post: finding a place with good internet.
Back to the portable WiFi…
As I was saying, I was duped into buying a portable WiFi because of a significant price drop.
How did I know?
After telling my boyfriend about a good bargain I just had because of a flash sale where I was supposed to have saved about two thousand pesos, he showed me how I only saved around ten pesos (based on the shopping app he is using) versus the app I am using claims I do.
I would later learn that the on-sale price was the same selling price of that item across other stores from a different online shopping app.
Perhaps the app has been tracking me for viewing the same item many times, and it knows that I only buy pricey items when on sale and then used that data to exploit my weakness.
I wasn’t really sad that I did not save much from the purchase. More likely, I felt cheated because I’d been lied to about the “flash sale.” I might be wrong about this one but still…
It reminded me of a Harvard Business Review 2011 podcast episode on the Pricing Secrets of Ticket Scalpers, where the guest talked about how Amazon was caught up in a pricing scandal after offering different prices to different consumers at the same time.
So much about flash sales now that I’m unsure if I’d give into one the next time I come across one.
What was your flash sale experience?