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- From: smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Big NASTY Brother Radio Shack
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 17:59:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.071923.7429@njitgw.njit.edu>, dcg5662@hertz.njit.edu (Dave Grabowski (KxiK)) writes:
- >
- > Well, seeing this blooming thread, I just HAD to put in my two cents.
- > I'm sure everyone is SICK of "RS Sucks" stories.. well, TOO BAD, because
- > here's another:
- >
- > A few months ago, a visited a RS store that I've frequented since I
- > was old enough to crawl in the front door. I needed a 3-amp fuse for my
- > car radio. Grabbed a pack off the shelf, and noticed the price: a
- > whopping 79 cents. A small price to pay for good tunes in the ol' Honda.
- > The salesman scans it, and asks for $1.05 (99 cents plus 6 cents NJ
- > sales tax). Being the consciencious (sp) consumer, I mentioned the
- > twenty cent discrepancy. He refused to do ANYTHING about it -- said that
- > "we're going through price changes." I'm sure that some of you have had
- > similar problems, and what they are SUPPOSED to do is merely take off
- > the difference as "Customer Satisfaction."
-
- Interesting. In the UK you could have reported them to the trading
- standards people. There have been several cases where supermarkets have
- had items with one price marked on the shelf, but when they have been
- scanned past the barcode reader at the checkout a higher price has been
- rung in. Its usually just carelessness on the part of the staff who
- have changed the item price on the computer and missed the label, but
- the courts won't buy that.
-
- I was talking to a friend who was a manager in one supermarket chain
- and he was just on his way to court for such a situation. The trading
- standards officers had checked after a complaint and found one store with
- half a dozen mistakes like that. All my friend could do was plead guilty,
- apologise, and pay up.
-
-
- Steve
-