OT - Really Bizarre Home Depot Online Price Issue

Sep 30, 2021 Last reply: 4 years ago 2 Replies

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DerbyDad03 4 years ago

OK...this one is really bizarre.

I have an iPad3, an iPad8, a Win10 PC and an Android smartphone.

The following link (yes, I included the entire link on purpose) shows a Ryobi blower attachment priced at $69.97 on the iPad8, PC and smartphone.

However, on the iPad3, that exact same link shows the price as $7997! No, I did not accidently leave out the decimal point. The price shown on the iPad3 is almost $8K.

Here's a picture of my iPad3 screen:

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I emailed the link from my iPad3 to myself and opened it on the other devices to make sure that the link was the exact link. I even copied the link from my PC showing the $69.97 price to myself and opened it on the iPad3. $7997. Every time.

My guess is that the HD system has to send a different page to the older IOS device and that the price on the page is wrong and formatted in such a way that it will not display correctly. e.g. $79.97 and can't display the decimal point.

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invalid unparseable 4 years ago

Shows as $69(97) with no decimal place, but the $ and 97 show as a superscript for me in Linux Firefox.

The really odd thing about that is the 69 turning to 79. I bet it would actually charge you about 80 dollars instead of about 70 dollars.

Are you actually seeing a decimal point in other browsers? Or is the cent part in a smaller font?

In the code it looks roughly like this:

So if the style for price-format__large-symbols were broken, everything would show at the same size, which is what I see in your screenshot. All that remains unexplained is the ten buck surcharge for shopping with an older ipad.

Elijah

------ Home Depot really wants prices to resemble their in-store labels

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DerbyDad03 4 years ago

You are correct sir..no decimal point.

Super script $ and 97.

That would explain the explainable part and leave the unexplainable part unexplained. ;-)

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