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From: lf@cornell.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Bait and switch
Message-ID: <1563@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 11:40:58 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 14 11:40:58 1984
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Reply-To: lf@gvax.UUCP (Larry Fresinski)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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I've run into that bait and switch situation several times particularly
with Kmart. They had a hedge trimmer on sale this summer and I went down
the day BEFORE the sale only to find the demonstration model the only one
in the store. The manager says I can buy it if I like. I took a range check
and checked in with the store every couple of weeks. They NEVER got another
trimmer in. I recevied a slip saying I can get 20% of any other item I like
though. It's happening enough in this area that a letter to the editor
appeared in the Ithaca Journal yesterday in the form of a poem that basicly
said that if store owners don't watch out they'll advertise a sale and NO ONE
will show.