{"id":129559,"date":"2022-10-28T15:22:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T22:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129559"},"modified":"2022-10-28T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T22:22:03","slug":"what-is-the-name-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/28\/what-is-the-name-of-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the name of the Game ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Sasanka De Silva<\/strong> Pannipitiya.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>After seeing a Facebook advertisement for one of the paint manufacturers in Sri Lanka, I called their head office to see if I, as a walk-in customer, could also claim the same discount offered to online buyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was refused, but on my insistence, I was connected to their sales department, and a young lady executive picked up to reiterate that the offer is only for online purchases with free delivery, as stated in the advertisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My rationale was that since it is a walk-in deal, the delivery portion of online shopping goes away, so the company benefits in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knowing that these frontline sales staffs have little authority in taking decisions, I asked her, without offending her, to check with the senior sales team and give an update on the request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surprisingly, after a few hours, she returned the call to inform me that the offer was only valid for online purchases, and it was confirmed by her senior management.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thanked her profusely only because giving an update by calling is not in our culture and it was a rarity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I am trying to see what I missed there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unless they entice customers with hefty discounts and pass off their rejected and\/or inferior-quality products to unsuspecting online shoppers, otherwise it does not make any sense to me.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can someone enlighten me, please?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sasanka De Silva<\/strong> Pannipitiya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasanka De Silva Pannipitiya. After seeing a Facebook advertisement for one of the paint manufacturers in Sri Lanka, I called their head office to see if I, as a walk-in customer, could also claim the same discount offered to online buyers. I was refused, but on my insistence, I was connected to their sales department, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sasanka-de-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}