Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt - Consumerist Comments

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

Erasmus Darwin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:06:46 EST

@BobCoyote: I suspect that they went to enter $9.99 using the numberpad, and they accidentally hit the rather large 0 key instead of the decimal point since the two are adjacent to each other.

Erasmus Darwin

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

Propaniac — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:23:53 EST

@twoply: You know, there are a lot of Consumerist posts that I skim past because they don't particularly interest me. I'm not sure why you can't do the same.

Propaniac

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

Grrrrrrrrr — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:28:29 EST

Hmm, I wonder if they have any deals like that on pickup trucks????

Grrrrrrrrr

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

Slytherin — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:14:45 EST

@twoply: Dear twoply,

These consumerism stories are made to be funny. Lighten up.

Slytherin

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

BobCoyote — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:37:41 EST

@twoply: In this case, it's more likely an employee made a mistake. Something along the lines of punching in "909" instead of "900", and then not clearing the old input before correcting. So, a $9.00 shirt gets marked as $9099.00.

I don't think hearing about stupid employees ever gets old.

BobCoyote

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

twoply — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:30:21 EST

Dear Consumerist,

These kinds of "stories" are getting old. Computers make mistakes. Welcome to life.

twoply

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

erica.blog — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:36:09 EST

QUICK, buy it before the price goes back up!!! :)

erica.blog

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

unklegwar — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:17:08 EST

Damn! I just bought it elsewhere for full price!!!

unklegwar

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

floydianslip6 — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:07:43 EST

Its DKNY man. Same shitty product, NEW HIGHER PRICE!

floydianslip6

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

jerros — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:43:08 EST

They don't call it value city for nothing...

jerros

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:42:18 EST

@AlteredBeast: If it were, it would be the other way around.

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

Meg Marco — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:32:12 EST

@AlteredBeast: Bwahaha.

Meg Marco

Shopping At Value City Saves You $9,090.50 On One Shirt

AlteredBeast — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:12:33 EST

You'd think this shirt was being sold at Compusa!

AlteredBeast