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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: NJ discount stereo components (Crazy Eddie)
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 23:30:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 23:30:21 1986
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I'll tell you (again) why I don't buy at Crazy Eddie's anymore.
1. Show them a really low price and will they beat it? Nope, they'll
just shrug their sholders and walk away.
2. They bait and switch.  One Christmas I was in a panic to
deliver on a promised car stereo for the second biggest boy of the
house. In a snow storm I called CE in New Brunswick and asked for
a particular model availability and price. They "won't quote price"
over the phone, but the salesman took the time and effort to call
the back room and assure me they had one in stock and would hold it
for 2 hours in my name.  Out into the snow and storm with the 
diesel rabbit, onward, onward thru the drifts, into the lowering
dark. Whew, stomp, stomp, I made it. Did they have the model in
stock at any price? What do you think?  Haven't bought a thing there
since and that was ...6 or 7 years ago.  I use the New York "mail
order" stores almost exclusively.

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