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I don't understand this at all unless it was some kind of legal technicality they got them on. I have 100 courses and not many of them were free, but I never f
by KevinMS 3y ago
I don't understand this at all unless it was some kind of legal technicality they got them on. I have 100 courses and not many of them were free, but I never felt misled, and I never payed over 13 bucks. If a course wasn't "on sale" I'd wait a week or more and the urgency marketing would kick in and I'd close the deal. Nothing was fake, it was just stupid and annoying.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoThere's a Vue.js course on Udemy that a colleage suggested to me. The price when I'm not logged in to Udemy is ~$20. When I login it jumps up to close to $200. This was 2 to 4 weeks ago. I asked them about this on Twitter but got no reply. I went back to the Udemy site and struggled to find a contact form or similar. Shady. Very shady. I frequent Slickdeals.net as well, and have seen similar complaints about other e-comm sites. Shockingly, Amazon has been mentioned.
- KevinMS 3y ago> When I login it jumps up to close to $200. But when you logged in, it was very obvious that it was $200? Its annoying, and dark, but its not so much a bait an switch. They are probably offering that $20 price to new users, so if you signed up for the first time it would stay at $20 as you logged into a new account. They just don't make it very clear. I never found it misleading because I never believed the prices until I logged in.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoCan't they check a cookie or local storage? It seems very shady.
- Name_Chawps 3y agoYou didn't fall for the scam. That doesn't mean it's not a scam.
- FredPret 3y agoHow is it a scam? They can sell their IP at any price. Today that price is $20, tomorrow it's $200. Don't like it - don't buy it.
- alex_lav 3y agoDid you click the link? Because it's clearly explained edit Updating to be more technically correct: > https://twitter.com/RobertFreundLaw/status/1651760650857902081 https://twitter.com/RobertFreundLaw/status/16517606508579020... Basically, a retailer must prove they've actually sold a product at it's base price to a substantial amount of customers, to prove that the reduced/sale price is actually a sale price and not its base price. This prevents customers from believing they're getting a better deal than they are. > The FTC rule says a former price needs to be “the actual, bona fide price at which the article was offered to the public on a regular basis for a reasonably substantial period of time. Go to website > see 80% off > sign in to buy > no longer 80% off
- korm 3y ago> Go to website > see 80% off > sign in to buy > no longer 80% off That's a bait and switch, also illegal. This lawsuit however was for fake reference pricing. Clearly a scam and there's a good reason it's banned in much of the developed world, just like false advertising.