Originally Posted by evo_soul

While I agree with you on most points. The thing about value judgments is that different people have different tolerances to pricing variation. Saving 10 or 20 bucks is great, but how much time and effort is required to get it. Examples like Canadian tire is a double edge sword. They bring supply to the market. When your in a jam you go there because they will always have what you are looking for on the shelf. If its too expensive, thats up to you. But if you are in a jam, I am pretty sure you going to pay whatever to get the part you desire. Its almost impossible to get the best price available. We always buy something and say, "damn if I had only waited or looked around harder I would have saved XXXX dollars." Unfortunately the factor at play is here is time. After being in the middle of the automotive industry and see how its changing, it makes me laugh. I run into guys all the time that come in to a shop and say the price is too expensive, I can buy it online for this price. The factor that makes me laugh is. Do they have it on the shelf.

An example I hear the other day was fun. Guy walks in to a shop and says "I can buy this this exhaust in Quebec for $400 dollars, your price of 450 is too high" the shop owner says "sorry the price is the price, but good luck ordering that exhaust, cause i have the last batch that was made by the Manufacturer. Make sure they have it on the shelf." Customer walked out and 2 weeks later comes back in saying he wants to buy the exhaust. The price is now $475. And the customer says, What kind of Russel Peters *#$#& is this? The price went up? Your a crook!

I was standing in the shop and hear everything go down, and I kinda started to laugh.
I talked to the owner afterwards when the customer left. And the shop owner asked me, "This is the kinda stuff I have to deal with everyday, do people understand that I run a business and my costs do not stay the same. Why do they think prices are set in stone?"

Now I think this is an example up for debate. Who is wrong here, The customer or the store owner? There is no wrong answer... (I am not pointing this question at you TheNEWB, just throwing it up there as a topic on prices) I am going to start a separate thread so we don't highjack this thread.