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MrSal

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Question about credit card price protection - Insulation
« on: March 20, 2017, 07:04:35 AM »
Hello everyone... Trying to see if anyone has experienced this.

I am in the plans of insulating my attic this spring. However, my are has expensive cellulose at 12-13$ a bag while other parts of the country can be had as cheap as 4-5$ even if it is the same store!!

I live in a 1200 sq feet ranch house, in the Northeast, so I am trying to get about R50 up there.

To have R50 however it asks for about 80 bags which at the price in my store translates to almost $1000 and make the break even point more than a decade.

My thinking was, to just buy the thing at $12 and then a few days later send the credit card company the website/ad of a location that has cellulose for $5 so they can cut me a check for the difference.

The thing i am not sure though, is if the matter that pricing is regional with this store, if it voids the price matching?

Any experience on that? I know price matching works since i have used it before this last Thanksgiving to buy Thanks giving door buster deals before Thanksgiving and then just price matching the Baclk Friday price with the credit card company.

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Re: Question about credit card price protection - Insulation
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2017, 04:28:51 PM »
This is awesome - I had no idea price protection was a thing on credit cards.  Apparently one of my Discover cards has a pretty decent price protection policy, so I need to read more about this.  I wish I could help w/ your specific question, but thanks for turning me on to this!

Yeah almost all of them have it... usually I do my Christmas shopping around September and October and dont care about prices... I just keep my receipts and then around Black Friday/Christmas I price match.

Actually I got Best Buys doorbuster TV ... I went there a week before Black Friday, bought 4 Toshibas at 450 dollars each ... on Black Friday they were selling for 199 ... I filed it on my CC company and they sent me a check for $1000 ....

Also it was even better since Best Buy also price matches their own price! Around Christmas the TV was selling for 350 dollars...So I went to Best Buy and they gave me $400 dollars back for the difference.

In essence I got a Toshiba 4K UHD 55" TV for 99 dollars each :D I kept one and sold the other 3 for 350 each.

I knwo it works - usally cards allow 90-120 days after you purchase of protection... but not sure how this would go if they would compare the lcoation I bought vs the location that is offered.
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Re: Question about credit card price protection - Insulation
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2017, 11:18:51 AM »
That's probably some level of fraud. I'd see if there is a better solution; ie, an online retailer.

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Re: Question about credit card price protection - Insulation
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2017, 12:29:18 PM »
fraud where?

I am using it to price match how can it be fraud?

Fraud would be if I grabbed a screenshot or took a picture of it and photoshopped a random price lower than what i had bought.

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Re: Question about credit card price protection - Insulation
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2017, 12:44:28 PM »
fraud where?

I am using it to price match how can it be fraud?

Fraud would be if I grabbed a screenshot or took a picture of it and photoshopped a random price lower than what i had bought.

Why buy the $12 batts if you can buy the $5 batts? If you have to pay for shipping, it's not the same, is it?

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Re: Question about credit card price protection - Insulation
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2017, 02:49:32 PM »
fraud where?

I am using it to price match how can it be fraud?

Fraud would be if I grabbed a screenshot or took a picture of it and photoshopped a random price lower than what i had bought.

It's fraud if it's premeditated.

Big difference between: You go shopping, buy for $X, then see the same item within a week at $Y;

and: you know $Y exists, but you buy for $X and then claim on insurance.

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Re: Question about credit card price protection - Insulation
« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2017, 06:03:31 PM »
fraud where?

I am using it to price match how can it be fraud?

Fraud would be if I grabbed a screenshot or took a picture of it and photoshopped a random price lower than what i had bought.

Why buy the $12 batts if you can buy the $5 batts? If you have to pay for shipping, it's not the same, is it?

I cant buy the 5$ one because they only ship locally to the store in question which is not close to me. All around me is $12