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A Kaunas resident who bought a webcam in a store for a child was very outraged: the product was not only more expensive in just one hour, but it was cheaper by several tens of euros on the Internet.
The man is convinced that traders are taking advantage that due to the pandemic, lessons for students are held remotely, when cameras are needed, and artificially inflate their prices. However, the store representatives gave a different explanation.
Looking for a cheaper option has gotten more expensive
Konstantinas, who visited the “Kilobaitas” physical store in Kaunas, Savanorių Avenue, on Wednesday, said that he had inspected five online video cameras there, which allegedly cost 48 euros each. However, the price of the products turned out to be too high for him, so the Kaunas resident decided to also look at other stores in the city, looking for a more acceptable option.
Elsewhere, he not only wanted lower prices, but also an online video camera option, the man said, however, when he returned to the Kilobait store to buy the necessary products for the child’s distance learning. However, about an hour after his first visit to the store, Konstantin came back and stopped – the webcam was even more expensive than before.
This is how it is: everyone lives their own way, but what to do for those who need a camera and almost no money? Where 17 euros and where – 50 euros. Shame.
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“Perhaps it is possible to take advantage of a situation where the pandemic and early childhood education in the country is carried out remotely, but when five cameras in a display case cost 48 euros, and when I went to see other stores and came back an hour later , I heard: ‘This is 50 euros’. “. I bought it because I needed it ”, the man did not hide his resentment.
Significant price difference
But another flicker of anticipation awaited him at night. Looking for instructions in Lithuanian on how to connect a webcam to make it work, the interlocutor said that after entering the product model in an Internet search engine, he saw that his purchase in the Kilobait online store cost 33 euros cheaper than what he paid in a physical store.
“It is as it is, everyone lives in their own way, but what to do for those who need a camera and have almost no money? Where 17 euros and where – 50 euros. It’s a shame that no one has control of such things,” he said the man, adding that he had informed the representatives of said store in writing about the incident, but had not received a response.
“I will not return the camera, because it is necessary for the child; it is no longer important to pay the money, but it would be nice if the store employees at least apologized,” Konstantin said.
Submitted your version
After the journalists of the portal contacted the representatives of the Kilobaitas store and told the Kaunas resident about the situation, they presented their version of the differences in the prices of the same product.
“It just came to our notice then. Manufacturers have now tripled prices due to the huge shortage of webcams. We don’t produce them ourselves, we get them from suppliers, but suppliers from manufacturers. As there is now a huge demand for webcams, the prices are the same: 50 euros each ”, assured the representative of Kilantasit, Mantas.
According to him, the webcam Konstantin bought could have cost 17 euros in January-February, before the quarantine. When asked if the product actually went up by two euros in about an hour, the store representative denied it. “We had a lot of webcams, 30 units, and they were all 50 euros each,” he said.
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Speaking to journalists by phone, Mantas also saw a captured screenshot sent by a Kaunas resident, which clearly shows that a webcam of the same model at the Kilobaitas online store costs 17.01 euros.
“I see that it is written to sell out and arrive on November 27, but that date is tentative and I don’t think we have them. The buyer probably found the website through Google, because if he had entered the product code in the Kilobyte search, “such products would not even be found,” explained the store representative.
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