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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:48:02 -0500
- From: David Reeve Sward <sward+@CMU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Microlab is a rip-off!!! BEWARE!!!
- In-Reply-To: <BxMFGz.FHo@andy.bgsu.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware: 12-Nov-92 Re: Microlab
- is a rip-off!!.. by G. Steve Arnold@andy.bgs
- > > This is highly unethical. I would think the customer is entitled to
- > > receive what he/she pays for. If they want to give me something "better,"
- > > the least they could do is check with me first! My reason for posting
- > > this was because so many people seem interested in the 24X, and many
- > > buy through Computer Shopper. Microlab has the lowest advertised price,
- > > and I'm doing this so no one else gets suckered into this situation.
- > > It's a shot in the dark, but I'm going to call my credit card company and
- > > the post office to see whether what they did constitutes fraud.
- >
- > Isn't this (barring that they tried to give you a "superior"
- > card...) the old 'Bait and Switch'? Sounds fishy...
-
- Not quite. ``Bait and Switch'' is advertising one product at a low
- price but not having it stock and trying to get the customer to pay more
- for a ``superior'' product. Microlab actually accepted his order but
- _shipped_ a different (``superior'' they said) product without asking
- him first.
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