Customer Care

[wifey2qt]

What is it with this price bouncing game??? I've seen prices literally changing week to week on clearance items, & "as is" items. Going up a few dollars one day, only to go down a few buck another day.....then back up. If anyting they should be trending down when on clearance or "as is". 

[CalminHeart]

The goal is to make people leery of waiting thinking the price will quickly go up...thus more impulse buyers which is more profit for Q. 

A number of retailers do this. While I don't like the willy nilly fluctuations, it's what they do.

I know it doesn't work on me. I buy when I'm ready IF the price is what I want. If not, I don't buy. 

[wifey2qt]

@CalminHeart - I get it but I have never experienced such fluctions like here on the Q. It's as if they can't make up their mind about where to land on a price.

[Roscoe the Rascal]

Just like the grocery store.

[cjm61]

@wifey2qt This is so common everywhere. It's just as @Roscoe the Rascal stated. The grocery stores are notorious. Prices change all the time.

My reasoning on why you believe QVC is playing this bouncy game is because many shoppers track prices often, maybe daily, here on an easy accessible site. Do you go to the Costco (any online retailer) site or in all the local stores daily and see what all there prices are? If we did we may find the same thing. 

Just as @CalminHeart does, I do the same. When a price is at my purchase point I buy it. I buy when it is a good value for ME. If the price drops again, I really don't care much. I also have never had a price fluctuation with As Is items and that is what I purchase the most. 

[Kachina624]

Price bouncing shouldn't come as any shock the way tariffs are bouncing up and down.  Be glad you're not a buyer having no idea of what the price if items will be by the time they're shipped.

The worst offender is Amazon where prices are constantly being "adjusted".

[We rescue cats]

I  cannot tell you the price of anything I buy, I know what it costs when I hit 'buy now' but I do not retain prices, never did...just ask my hubby. If I want the item and price seems to be high I will shop around a bit but I am a bad consumer and I admit that.

[KittySoftPaws]

All kinds of weird going on the Q as of late. I had an item in 3 different colors on order for two weeks now. When I ordered, it was "in stock" then went on "advanced order" for 2 weeks! I thought, I'm just goinfg to put this in my bag, order it, and see what happens. Not only is it now in stock, it's also $8.00 cheaper! So I cancelled the orig. orders which still said "advanced" and re-ordered the items which are now "in process." I'm lucky I could still cancel the orig. items, and that the item was still avail. What gives QVC?

[bellaartiste]

Many times an items price has been lowered, and just when they offer free shipping..... I think I will purchase....

the price goes back up.  Now that is what I call price bouncing. It happens quite a bit.

[cindyNC]

I noticed that with HSN.  When clearance items were given free shipping, the prices went up about $3 and then came back down again when shipping was added back in. 

I phoned customer service once to get a price adjustment due to the above circumstances and the representative just said "isn't that great you caught it"