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[snapping fingers] oh nooo you didnt wendys[/end snapping]

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Zep

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So, i go out to wendys with my $2.12(1.06 w/ tax) for my super scumptious bacon cheesburger(s)...and low and beold, these motherfuckers bumped the price up to $1.29. Me being the dumbfounded guy that I'am i question the Ho at the window. "im soory sur but we bumped the price because people abused it",........

So i leave with 1 sandwich, and i just finished it :(
 

etiolate

Banned
Oh damn! I got my bacon cheeseburger just before they went up!

And abused it? Is Wendy's mad people were buying lots of their hamburgers?
 

Socreges

Banned
etiolate said:
And abused it? Is Wendy's mad people were buying lots of their hamburgers?
I figure they meant that people would just buy two JBCs and then nothing else, whereas Wendys was hoping that people would come for the deal and then get some other stuff (such as outrageously priced coke).

While I abused it myself, this still makes me happy since it makes DaddyZ upset.
 
Is this effecive nationwide? Just yesterday I got a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger for 99 cents. Damn, I'm gonna miss that sandwich.
 

LakeEarth

Member
Hey, they're losing money per sandwich bought. People by 15 of them, Wendy's loses tons of money. It sucks but the price had to go up. $1.29 is still a good deal.
 

cloudwalking

300chf ain't shit to me
demi said:
They probably put pubes in your meal too.

^ i have had that happen to me before and i can honestly say it really, really sucks.


anyway, they did the same thing to me a while ago, except at the coffee shop. i went there with exact change, as always, and surprise! the price is bumped up! how the hell do you expect me to get through a day at work without my coffee? pff.
 

Link

The Autumn Wind
BobbyRobby said:
Is this effecive nationwide? Just yesterday I got a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger for 99 cents. Damn, I'm gonna miss that sandwich.
Nah, the stores are franchised so they can set their own prices. A Wendy's near me charges $1.29 for a bunch of stuff that all the others around charge 99 cents for.
 

Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
cloudwalking said:
^ i have had that happen to me before and i can honestly say it really, really sucks.
This sounds like a story...
 

cloudwalking

300chf ain't shit to me
Dan said:
This sounds like a story...

well i don't wanna hijack the thread or anything, but i'll be an ass and tell it anyway.

i went out to dinner at applebee's with my family to celebrate my dad's birthday a few years ago. we had our meal, it was great. i was real hungry, so i was the only person who ordered dessert. i chose to get the apple crisp.

well they brought me the cute little, yummy-looking apple crisp with the ice cream on the side. i start eating it, and eating it. it's really good. but, oh! what's this black thing buried in the fucking middle of my tasty apple crisp?! oh god... it's a pube. a little, black, curly pube.

i am baffled to this day as to how i managed to stay as calm as i did. i was disgusted and pissed off, but i kept from throwing up and showed it to my parents. they asked for the manager. he apologized profusely and brought me another slice of apple crisp, on the house.

yay! now i finally get some pubeless dessert, right? fucking wrong!! there is TWO pubes buried in the middle of this slice, which i discovered after getting halfway through it AGAIN.

so we try to stay laid back about it, but we're all mad. we don't wanna make a scene, though. we call the manager back over and show him again. he apologizes again and this time explains that applebee's gets all of their apple crisp pre-made from a factory, so it would have been a factory worker who did this.

our meal was free because of my misfortune, but i find it really, really hard to eat apple crisp nowadays.
 

demi

Member
EAT ME

mmmmm....apple-crisp!.jpg
 

Flynn

Member
DaddyZ said:
"im soory sur but we bumped the price because people abused it",........(

This mentality kills me.

Message to retail America: A price can't be abused, only taken advangage of. If you don't want people buying your product at a certain price, don't price it so.

Tread in the dangerous ground of loss-leading and expect bargain hunters to take your bait. Don't be surprised if they're not stupid enough to buy all the other upsells and profit-makers ($.99 sugar water, I'm talking to you) that you try to cram down their throats.
 

andthebeatgoeson

Junior Member
My personal meal is 2 Jr Bacon Cheeseburgers, a order of Nuggets and a Great Biggie Fry for four something. Definitely beats out the six dollar meal I bought from them tonite, but that Chicken Sandwich meal was calling me.
 

impirius

Member
Flynn said:
Tread in the dangerous ground of loss-leading and expect bargain hunters to take your bait. Don't be surprised if they're not stupid enough to buy all the other upsells and profit-makers ($.99 sugar water, I'm talking to you) that you try to cram down their throats.
"I had to stop buying drinks from Wendy's; they were abusing me."
 

Alcibiades

Member
Flynn said:
This mentality kills me.

Message to retail America: A price can't be abused, only taken advangage of. If you don't want people buying your product at a certain price, don't price it so.

Tread in the dangerous ground of loss-leading and expect bargain hunters to take your bait. Don't be surprised if they're not stupid enough to buy all the other upsells and profit-makers ($.99 sugar water, I'm talking to you) that you try to cram down their throats.
.99 bottled water, I'm talking to...

oh wait...
 
Matlock said:
$0.99 for a chili
$0.99 for a baked potato
$0.00 for a cup of water

=

awesome meal
It's people like you who are jacking up the Wendy's prices for the rest of us. Can't you do your part and buy a $5.99 caesar salad? It comes with real bacon bits!
 

demi

Member
In honor of this thread I will get some delicious Arby's before work. They can abuse me anytime they please...oooo yeah...
 

ToxicAdam

Member
Arby's has been raping my wallet since the mid 80's. Those bastards.


But, yeah .. that Wendy's value meal is the best. It would be a shame to see it go.


The thing I hate about Wendy's is that they will throw thier salt packets INTO the fries. I am sitting there driving, mindlessly grabbing some fries out of the bag. BAM! I bite down onto an explosion of a salt packet into my mouth.
 

Grifter

Member
demi said:
In honor of this thread I will get some delicious Arby's before work. They can abuse me anytime they please...oooo yeah...

Only support the Arby's that sell potato cakes. The ones that don't need to be taught a lesson.
 

sefskillz

shitting in the alley outside your window
99 cent JBC's are a beautiful thing. we get a 10% discount around here with a college id too, and while i graduated in december, i still take advantage of that. i'm doing my part to abuse wendy's value pricing, are you?
 
I had a craving for 2 Double Stacks last night, but they were off the .99 menu, which surprised me.

But I did settle for 2 .99 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers. Yum.
 

Hooker

Member
Heh, I wish we had those prices over here (or even a Wendy's. -- They haven't penetraded the European market yet)


Last time I went to BK I had to pay €3.40 for a single whopper!! Bunch of greedy bastards!!
 

bobble

Member
Mine changed the price like a month ago to $1.19 for almost everything on the value list. Pisses me off, I seem to eat 1 meal a day and the $4 + tax combo of 2 JrBCheezeburglers and 2 5 piece Chicken Nugs (Best chicken guys in the biz) was an awesome deal. Now it comes in over $5 after tax. No more fattie for me :(
 

Dsal

it's going to come out of you and it's going to taste so good
I felt a great disturbance in the Force ... as if millions of cheap bachelors with dinner budgets of 3 bucks suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly hungry...

Seriously though.. abuse? What do they think a value menu is for? That people are going to buy one 99 cent thing and then a 4 buck thing?
 
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