On Angie’s List’s Pricing (or how NOT to price in one easy lesson)

Last week, I surfed into Angie's List, a site which allows people to exchange information about local services providers like carpenters, yard services, etc. I knew it was a paid membership site, and I was curious about the pricing. Long story short, I did not sign up for a membership.

This morning I received the following email from them with the subject: Oops! We meant to give you a bigger discount

So, let me get this straight. Angie's List does a poll that indicates that 80 percent of companies do not have the confidence in their product or service to stand by a price they have given a prospective customer. In other words, they are liars - their "price" was not their price! Angie's List then decides that rather than being an indication of a problem, they adopt this policy themselves.

In addition, they cast doubt upon all the vendors who use their service and tell me that they (Angie's List) are liars (their price was not their price), but that they would really like me to sign up with my PayPal account and get even more off. Ahhh, no thanks!

Have I missed anything?