{"id":105975,"date":"2021-11-26T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=105975"},"modified":"2021-11-25T06:35:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:35:12","slug":"20211126-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20211126-01\/?p=105975","title":{"rendered":"The two products may be identical, but they are not the same"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the sneaky tricks pulled by salespeople is the &#8220;We match any competitor&#8217;s price on the same item&#8221; offer. The trick is to make sure the products in your store are not available at any competitor by simply changing the model number.<\/p>\n<p>I read that this trick is particularly popular for some reason with furniture stores (in cahoots with furniture manufacturers). They will sell you a Fabrikam model 1310-XD-2 sofa. You spot the same sofa at a competitor and they say, &#8220;No, it is not the same sofa. That sofa is a Fabrikam model 1310-XC-2. The one you bought is a model 1310-XD-2. Sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The two sofas are completely identical in every respect of any consequence. The only difference is that the furniture manufacturer prints 1310-XC-2 on the tag of the sofa it sells to store\u00a0A and 1310-XD-2 on the tag of the sofa it sells to store\u00a0B.<\/p>\n<p>Since the model numbers don&#8217;t match, the price match guarantee does not apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No price-matching for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-105975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>No price-matching for you.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}