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Friday, 21 December 2007 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosiedoesOkay, so - Pete and the Clan store. I spent a total of about $130 there in November. I liked the items I bought a lot.
However, I've noticed (as I know at least one person on my flist has), that they're doing a lot of Come Hang Out With Pete promo at the moment, to get people into the shop. Now, there is this (pay special attention to the parts in bold):
Jolly Old Saint Pete
Jolly Old Saint Pete (Yes, Pete Wentz) will be working at the Clandestine Store on Friday, December 28th! THIS WEEKEND ONLY (12/21 – 12/23), purchase a $50 gift certificate at the Clandestine Industries retail store and have exclusive access to this very special shopping experience with Pete. ONLY 150 gift certificates will be sold!
We WILL be accepting phone orders for those super-duper fans who want to travel to Chicago!
[snip]
When: Friday, December 28th
Time: 2p – 4p
***You MUST bring your gift certificate for entrance to the store
***Gift certificates will NOT be redeemable between the hours of 2p – 4p CST on 12/28/07
***Regular store hours apply after this exclusive Clandestine Industries experience
www.clandestineindustries.com
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So, basically - you have to spend $50 in the store to get in so you can see Pete for a few seconds. When you get there, you can't spend the giftcard. But they will take phone orders for the giftcard so that people who want to travel into Chicago especially for it can have one. But you'll have to come back to spend the giftcard because you can't spend it when they've conned you into actually going to the store.
So yeah. Pete cares more about those good quality shirts that weren't made in sweatshops taking advantage of little kids than he does about the kids who'll buy them just because his name is attached to them, and who'll go out of their way to spend their Christmas money on expensive clothes, and possibly travel significant distances just to meet him for a few moments.
I really want to like Pete, I do. But shit like that pisses me off.
Edit:
I had to ask this on the Q&A:
Okay, generally, I hate to see people call you out on shit on here, but this time I'm really kind of appalled.
The Clan Store on 28 December. You're asking kids to spend $50 for a giftcard to get in, but they can't spend that $50 while they're there. And you're encouraging people to travel to be there by offering to reserve the cards - but they'd have to come back or wait around until after you've left to make a purchase on that gift card.
In order to approach the register while you're working, they have to spend more money, and as the shirts average at about $30, that's $80 you've got them for. But as those shirts are $30 or so, and you have to, I presume, use the whole giftcard at once, they'll almost certainly need to add an extra $10 to make up the difference. That's close to $100 per kid.
For someone who comes from what is purported to be such a socialist, good-moralled background, and someone who claims to care so much about the fans, I have to say that this looks like a fantastically ruthless way of ripping them off.
It may be good business sense, but last time I checked *you* were a person. They're not there for your t-shirts and you know it.
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I wonder if I'll get a reply.
However, I've noticed (as I know at least one person on my flist has), that they're doing a lot of Come Hang Out With Pete promo at the moment, to get people into the shop. Now, there is this (pay special attention to the parts in bold):
Jolly Old Saint Pete
Jolly Old Saint Pete (Yes, Pete Wentz) will be working at the Clandestine Store on Friday, December 28th! THIS WEEKEND ONLY (12/21 – 12/23), purchase a $50 gift certificate at the Clandestine Industries retail store and have exclusive access to this very special shopping experience with Pete. ONLY 150 gift certificates will be sold!
We WILL be accepting phone orders for those super-duper fans who want to travel to Chicago!
[snip]
When: Friday, December 28th
Time: 2p – 4p
***You MUST bring your gift certificate for entrance to the store
***Gift certificates will NOT be redeemable between the hours of 2p – 4p CST on 12/28/07
***Regular store hours apply after this exclusive Clandestine Industries experience
www.clandestineindustries.com
---
So, basically - you have to spend $50 in the store to get in so you can see Pete for a few seconds. When you get there, you can't spend the giftcard. But they will take phone orders for the giftcard so that people who want to travel into Chicago especially for it can have one. But you'll have to come back to spend the giftcard because you can't spend it when they've conned you into actually going to the store.
So yeah. Pete cares more about those good quality shirts that weren't made in sweatshops taking advantage of little kids than he does about the kids who'll buy them just because his name is attached to them, and who'll go out of their way to spend their Christmas money on expensive clothes, and possibly travel significant distances just to meet him for a few moments.
I really want to like Pete, I do. But shit like that pisses me off.
Edit:
I had to ask this on the Q&A:
Okay, generally, I hate to see people call you out on shit on here, but this time I'm really kind of appalled.
The Clan Store on 28 December. You're asking kids to spend $50 for a giftcard to get in, but they can't spend that $50 while they're there. And you're encouraging people to travel to be there by offering to reserve the cards - but they'd have to come back or wait around until after you've left to make a purchase on that gift card.
In order to approach the register while you're working, they have to spend more money, and as the shirts average at about $30, that's $80 you've got them for. But as those shirts are $30 or so, and you have to, I presume, use the whole giftcard at once, they'll almost certainly need to add an extra $10 to make up the difference. That's close to $100 per kid.
For someone who comes from what is purported to be such a socialist, good-moralled background, and someone who claims to care so much about the fans, I have to say that this looks like a fantastically ruthless way of ripping them off.
It may be good business sense, but last time I checked *you* were a person. They're not there for your t-shirts and you know it.
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I wonder if I'll get a reply.