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From: brian@sdcc3.UUCP (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Automatic Overcharging
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Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 11:59:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 11:59:37 1984
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Yes indeed, it is not at all unusual for the discount price to be marked
on the shelf and not in the computer, so if you aren't careful, you pay
the full price!

No, I don't think its accidental, I think that a lot of times it is 
deliberate fraud on the part of the retailer, and should be prosecuted 
with massive fines for those who regularly do it!!!  After all, the
retailer has no other real incentive to do it right!

After getting burned by this practice, I have dropped one store after another
until I hit upon our local Gemco, which has signs posted at the register
	"If the price registered is different from the
	marked shelf price, you receive that item FREE"

And yes, they mean it.  Twice I've gotten an item free because they
hadn't put the discount into the computer.

I think more stores should do this, and we, the consumer, should boycott
those stores that don't - and write a letter to the manager, local
consumer advocates, better business bureau, and everyone else to raise a
stink until those stores that don't have this policy straighten up!

Arrgh! That felt GOOD!
	
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