MF’s oddball pricing during “sales”

With the promo code, it saves me almost $6 ?



This is the first time I’ve bothered to do a screen grab, but it’s something I’ve noticed to be a regular occurrence during promo and sale offers through MF, but strangely only when I have backstage points accumulated and seems to be limited exclusively to strings !

There are several online retailers that have the same exact set listed for under $40...some as low as under $30. Am I missing something here?

Disclaimer: I don’t care to discuss MF’s right to charge whatever they want, or my right to shop elsewhere. What I am curious about is if I’m the only one who has noticed this.

 

Look...magically fixed within the last 10 minutes:


That time I didn’t actually “search”...I scrolled through the regular strings section until they popped up. Hmm...

EDIT: Disregard this image. It is of a different set. The 3120’s are still $58.59.

 

Correct. That’s the 3025’s in the second screenshot...my mistake! The shorty set is still close to $60.

 

Here’s from another online dealer, which is actually only a few bucks lower than the others I see online:

 

Except that MF still has an exorbitantly high price on the set in question...nearly double their own regular price and of that on many other sites. Here’s a random set of GHS I pulled up from the site:

 

I guess what I’m asking is are they blatantly raising their regular price to offset the “deal” people would be getting with the Memorial Day sale?



EDIT:
Again, they’re free to price things however they want. I just genuinely want to know if something is going right over my head here.

 

Compare this:



To this:

 

Sure I can, but I’m trying to understand the logic or if it’s a genuine regularly occurring glitch that seems to coincide with holiday offers.

 

Being in retail as long as I have, it boggles the mind. I guess that is what separates some of the little guys from the big ones. If we did that to our customers we’d be run out of town with pitchforks. That’s why I’m scratching my head. It’s so blatantly obvious. Not only are there zero savings, it’s almost as if they are passing along the cost of the promotion to those customers who might have accumulated rewards points.

Of course, all this is at face value. I will happily concede that I may well be missing something very obvious aside from lazy marketing.

 

These are single item listings as they appear. The only multi packs I’m seeing are Boomers. You could be onto something though as I may have missed that.

 

That was my first thought, but I’m perhaps naively trying to give the benefit of the doubt. If that is the case, kind of a crappy deal on MF’s part don’t you think?