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Originally Posted by JimHalpert
We decided we wanted pizza so I called the place. Ordered a medium 3 topping pizza, 16 wings, and fries and the total was $33 and change. I asked if they had any deals, they said no. As they were reading off the totals for each item to me (you know, the whole repeating the order thing to make sure it's right) I say "er, wait this is all more expensive than it is online. Cancel this sorry. I'm just gonna order it there". Went online to the website and got a large 3 topping pizza, 16 wings, and fries for $27 and change.
1. On a scale of 1-10 how "cheap" "tacky" whatever word you want to use is this? I thought it was totally normal since theres no reason to pay more money at the exact same place than I have to. Got a "really?" from someone, so maybe it isn't a 1 like I thought?
2. I wonder how much money I'm throwing away by not realizing the exact same (or better since i got a large instead of a medium!) product is being sold for cheaper in another place.
I guess this is my area of expertise here so I'll comment. I suppose there are some possible reasons for it, but your situation is the main reason why having separate prices and deals for phone ordering vs online ordering is completely dumb. You are only asking for trouble when doing this and best case scenario is what you did. Worst case is that someone discovers after the fact that they could have saved money ordering online and then feeling ripped off they never order from that place again.
I'm just curious was the website address you ordered from ran by the pizzeria or was it a third party? If it was third party maybe they were running a special trying to steer traffic to them or something. If it was ran by the pizzeria maybe they are trying to grow their online ordering profile. Again it's dumb no matter what.