My husband is a PPA: Professional Price Adjuster – you know the person who wants to get the lowest price possible on a product.
My husband is very organized when it comes to his price adjustment business. He has a file folder for all the receipts he gets – one for each day of the month. When he makes a purchase at any store, he asks what the policy is on price adjustments. If a product he purchases goes on sale within 14-30 days from the time he purchases it, he wants a refund on the difference.
Many of us do this with high-end items like cameras or computers. If a camera goes on sale from $300 to $250, of course we want to get that $50. My husband goes a little further than that, though. He wants price adjustments on everything he buys. Everything from toothpaste to furniture – my husband wants a price adjustment. If a store has a 30-day policy, my husband will call on the 29th or 30th day to see if something has gone on sale.
If my husband makes a purchase on something like a power tool and a store doesn’t offer price adjustments, my husband will not even take the power tool out of the box until 30 days later. He’ll call the store every week to check if the tool went on sale. If it has gone on sale, he’ll drag me down to the store and ask me to purchase the tool again while he goes to the customer service counter to return the one he bought. All of this hassle of driving to a store 25 minutes away just to save a few bucks!
We live out on a farm which is at least 25-30 minutes away from the nearest town. When you calculate the amount of money my husband spends on gas just to get a price adjustment, sometimes he just breaks even!
One day I overheard my 14-year-old daughter on the phone calling a store to check on the price of a pair of shoes…
“I know you have a 30 day policy, but it’s only been 31 days. Can I still get the price adjustment?” she begged the store employee on the other line.
Great! Now my husband has taught my daughter how to be a Professional Price Adjuster. She even has her own little file folder…
– Dorine, Orlando FL
