How to Properly Address Outrageous Overpricing

A shop by myhouse currently has black note and kbs at 13.99 bottle and very angry beast at 29.99 a bottle... More power to those who can pay the price...

 

Yeah, I have no idea. I'm also just presuming that they're getting someone to buy it there and then bringing it down so don't quote me on that.

 

I think that bar/bottle shop has a license for "importing" or something like that, if we are talking about the same place.

On the topic of overpricing, ask the manager if he would bargain with you, if not oh well.

 

Lol, hope that other people find that price just as ludicrous. Then calmly watch it rot on their shelf and laugh that they have to discount that beer as it is trash now.

Honestly, shop elsewhere (I know you don't want to hear it). Until the shop keep comes to his senses, I guarantee you can find Torpedo and other quality IPAs to tide you over until that twerp comes to his senses

 

Sure, why reply with the only reasonable thing one could possibly say? Nothing cures high prices like high prices.

 

Seriously. This is the answer. If people don't pay high prices then the store will lower them. If other people are paying them, then the prices aren't that high. You can protest, talk to the owners, do some non-violent resistance, complain about it on this website, etc. and NONE of it will matter if the next person in line pays the same price. Don't shop at the store. Actually, you can take it one step further. Don't shop at the store AND educate the people that are shopping at the store about how out of whack the prices are (but be ready to suggest cheaper and equally as convenient alternatives, or else that plea will probably go nowhere).

 

Plain and simple, tell them it's overpriced and you are going to shop elsewhere.

NOW if a few others do the same, then you have something started, get a whole lot of folks and now you got a revolt started and Arlo Guthrie can come and sing Alice's Restaurant in front of the store.

 

Put it down and walk away.

 

Maybe it was simply marked wrong. It happens all the time. Did you bother to ask?

 

I live a four minute walk to such a bottle shop. I find myself shopping elsewhere. I have never addressed prices with the store, but came mighty close when I looked at (but didn't touch) the Old Speckled Hen sixer priced at $17.99.

Competition is booming in my town, and fortunately the choices of where to buy keeps growing. Although I frequently lament about how nice it would be if my neighborhood store would get "in line", at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter. I just say no and move on.

 

I've been known to ask about prices, before. Politely, of course. Something like this " I sure would like to buy a few of these, but they are $4.00 more than my last one, can you help me out a little" ? I don't live near any well stocked stores, so when I visit one, I usually pick up a cart at the front door and its usually full when I leave. Maybe a purchase of a couple hundred dollars helps. Lightman1

 

This. An argument can be made that running the price up seems greedy, and maybe it is, but it also means that more will be able to obtain the product rather than a single person scooping it all up.

An extreme example would be bottled water after a natural disaster. Store A keeps the price at $1 a bottle. Guy walks in with a $100 bill and scoops all 100 up, leaving none for others who need it. Store B runs the price up to $5 a bottle. People rage that the store is "gouging" but the same guy walks in with another $100 and can only buy 20, leaving 80 bottles for others who need water too.

 

I would just walk in there with the receipt of my previous beer and go, If the same beer costs this much at this place, then why is it double in here? and ofcourse talk to the brewer because the brewer most likely is not seeing a single cent of the over pricing and would likely not be happy with it.

flying_dutchman

 

If it's a seasonal, I usually make a casual comment that the "Distributor" really bumped up the price this year. Also start taking bottle returns from other stores to his store.

 

very simple. vote with your feet!

 

Surprised this isn't happening more often already. Prices are artificially low relative to what demand is for the most coveted offerings out there. It's as if retailers and others are operating on a bunch of warm fuzzy principles in business instead of profit motive.

 

Honestly, the shop can price them at whatever price they want. The only real answer is to stop shopping there. It isn't your position to confront the owner/employees about the prices being too high. This isn't the sort of situation where haggling on prices is the norm.