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Best Buy fail = I win!
DaOld Man:
I love it when you are looking at laptops at best Buy, the salesman (or saleslady) walks up and the first thing they say is "I dont get any kind of commission."
But you start talking about knocking off a little on the price, or throwing in a free wireless mouse and they say, "let me ask the manager."
Works every time.
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on January 10, 2011, 05:41:26 pm ---Damn right PBJ. Just because a person has a low paying job, doesnt mean he cant do it correctly.
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The whole false advertizing thing was to stop stores from bait and switching. If you see something is accidentally/ unintentionally priced wrong and you buy it for that wrong price, you are no better than the person who sees a wet floor and slips on it to get an easy lawsuit settlement.
By the way, Best Buy doesn't fail from your win. Just like it hasn't failed from all the other forms of theft. It'll just have the rest of us pay more to absorb your deception.
Edgedamage:
Love it, last year my dad calls and tells me "I just bought a $1300 TV but the bill shows $680". My personal fav was when I bought $62.17 in gas and I said would pay by debit, he enters the price and all I see on that little screen is $2.17 OK? Dammm right OK!
DaveMMR:
--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on January 10, 2011, 07:02:06 pm ---If you see something is accidentally/ unintentionally priced wrong and you buy it for that wrong price, you are no better than the person who sees a wet floor and slips on it to get an easy lawsuit settlement.
By the way, Best Buy doesn't fail from your win. Just like it hasn't failed from all the other forms of theft. It'll just have the rest of us pay more to absorb your deception.
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Seriously? The game was labeled a certain price and he jumped on it. He did absolutely nothing wrong. If they didn't have to honor it, there's no saying which stores are "accidentally" labeling products lower to spur sales from people who either aren't paying attention or are too apathetic to complain. Thankfully, consumers have rights and part of those rights is to have products accurately priced on the floor.
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: Mikezilla on January 10, 2011, 05:41:26 pm ---I work at a bank, if I screw up, I have feds breathing down my neck, not to mention Im a manager so Im responsible for an entire branch.
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I think that you picked the absolute worst possible example of responsibility on the entire planet ... not really up on current economics, are you ?
As to RayB's point, part of the point that I think it was making is that the same people who scream "Buy American, Save Our Jobs" are the same folks who are happy to take advantage of mistakes that cost the American economy money. In this case, the mistake didn't hurt the foreign companies who made, licensed and sold the product, but rather the American company who sold it.
That, and the fact that Americans (and Canadians for that matter, to a lesser extent) want things as cheap as possible, which is the primary reason that manufacturing (and other) jobs have flown the coop.
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