Could I coin a new term: Dickbating...

It's like clickbaiting, but dick smith style,

Ordered a laptop sleeve online, on special, click and collect from the Sydney store (George st).
After almost a week with no status update I visited the store yesterday, they looked up the product in the system, it's end of line… But "our head office has 120 of them, we will call this afternoon with the ETA."

No call. So, I speak to customer service. They ring the store. The store rings me: "product is end of line, won't have it anymore but we will do you a good deal on a similar laptop sleeve". Dickbaiting. Their cheapest one in the store was $25 more than the product I had in order.

I hate to ask as I am fairly sure of the answer… Is this a standard practice for coc… uh dick smith?

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Comments

  • +1

    Yea.. that's usually a different meaning.

    • I hazard to google.

      • I hazard to think what type of lap-top-sleeve you ordered from the dick-smith.

        :|

      • +1

        The great news is if you google the term "dickbating" this thread is the first result! Nice work!

    • lol learned something new.

  • +1

    Maybe bait and dick?

  • +23

    Does Masters do this too?

    • I saw what you did there. :)

    • I'll pay that.

    • +1

      If that doesn't get comment of the month, something's wrong with the world.

    • Badum * tish

  • This is unheard of….

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