For the companies that are advertising items that I might actually buy online, this is NOT a good practice. On the sides of facebook there are frequently things like ladies’ shoes, home furnishings and the like. When I’m on FB, I occasionally see one of these and all my feminine interest will be suddenly focused “OH CUTE!!!”. And so I click, and the item on the little ad photo is nowhere to be found.
Most recently a darling occasional table I saw just now, as I’ve been facebooking back and forth with my sister. “Ooooh” sez I “if that’s a reasonable price, I just might get it”. And so I click. And where is the table? Nowhere on the site that I can find. Grrrrrrrr!!! A few weeks ago, it was a SLICK pair of little red boots. The site didn’t even have red boots of any sort when I got there. WTH? and grrrrr!!!
I mean, these aren’t Nigerian banks scams, they’re actual products that I would actually buy, so why do you show them if you don’t have them in stock??? Are the ones I clicked to get some sort of SUPER great ones and the rest are not (even though they look like the same quality)? (of course, they could always be protecting my pocketbook for me :)). Are these some sort of scam of a different stripe? I mean, the other products that are available look like decent stuff, just not what I happened to have clicked on to get.