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Re: Star Wars Lego 40% off at K-mart
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Thu, 9 Dec 1999 18:14:48 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Ben Olmstead writes:
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> Just to be way too pedantic, the ad on Lego does say 50% off the
> _regular price_ on the second set. This would still be 35% off,
> average, and our computer system probably can't handle that fine of a
> distinction. (Or the people who enter the ads can't handle that fine of
> a distinction...)
I was prepared to have the checker tell me that both sales couldn't apply at
the same time, but the sets I bought rang up automatically with both the 20%
discount and the buy-one-get-one-50%-off sales. So no fast-talking was
necessary!
--Raymond Flournoy
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flournoy@cs.stanford.edu "Because, of course, a man with an
Computer Science Dept. obsession is a man who has very little
Stanford University, CA sales-resistance." -- C. S. Lewis
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| (...) Just to be way too pedantic, the ad on Lego does say 50% off the _regular price_ on the second set. This would still be 35% off, average, and our computer system probably can't handle that fine of a distinction. (Or the people who enter the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Dec-99, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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