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Re: FOTY, at least for me.
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Date: 
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:51:52 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Renard Graham writes:
In lugnet.market.shopping, Eric Brouwer writes:
So you happily cheated Target out of hundreds of dollars in revenue?  Kudos
to you and your ethics.

I for one am not impressed in your veiled theft.

Eric

snip

I bought them at the price anybody else walking in could have.
Are you suggesting that I shouldn't have bought any, and told them of their
mistake in pricing?  Maybe, but the way I see it, if they have done
something like this they have done it to themselves, I did not change the
price to some ridiculous amount, they did. What you call theft ( which I
feel is an inappropriate and slanderous charge by our legal standards) I
call oppurtunistic.

Once upon a time, many years ago, I was in a warehouse buying place called
'Pace'. I noted that they had something electronic at a really rediculous low
price. I pointed that out to them, they checked the details and realized their
mistake. Then they refused to sell me one at the posted price. Lesson learned:
if you really want to tell someone they messed up on pricing, get one for
yourself first, then point it out.

Ray



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  Re: FOTY, at least for me.
 
(...) I remember PACE warehouse stores, they were owned by KMart I believe. Didn't last long in our area though, couldn't compete with Price Club and Costco. (23 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)
  Re: FOTY, at least for me.
 
(...) There's a local beverage store chain called "Beverages and More". When one of their new stores opened, they priced Thomas Hardy ale for 99 cents per bottle (instead of the $4.25 it should have been). I asked a store manager if that was the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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  Re: FOTY, at least for me.
 
(...) snip I bought them at the price anybody else walking in could have. Are you suggesting that I shouldn't have bought any, and told them of their mistake in pricing? Maybe, but the way I see it, if they have done something like this they have (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jan-02, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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