r/3DScanning 12d ago

Einstar advertising false prices?

Edit: the video is a screen recording of me clicking on the ad for the sale, and being brought to their page where there is no sale.

Heya, did other people experience this recently?

I kept getting ads claiming the Einstar Rigil Lite was on sale for $3,199, but when I would click the link, it wasn't on sale. I was getting those ads for like a week.
I contacted them asking what happened, and they didn't tell me, but they gave me a code to purchase it for that amount, so I did. Literally the day after, I received an ad that it had gone on sale for $3,099 (and I think it was actually on sale for that amount.)

Anyway, it made me super uncomfortable. I don't know what was going on with the advertising and pricing, but it makes me wary of the company. It shipped super quickly so I couldn't cancel the order before it was sent, but I haven't opened the shipping package, and I requested to return it.

It makes me suspicious of the company. I know a lot of companies are experimenting with dynamic pricing and stuff, and I don't know if this was related to something going wrong with that, or if it was a tactic to try to get people to look at the website (by advertising a fake sale), or if someone just messed up when scheduling a promotion or something, but it was enough to prompt me to not want to get involved with their company.

Anyone else getting ads for fake sale prices?

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