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From: olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Revenge on Northwestern + poll
Message-ID: <730@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 17:45:37 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 20 17:45:37 1986
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Reply-To: olson@harvard.UUCP (Eric olson)
Organization: Aiken Comp Lab, Harvard
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In article <505@kepler.UUCP> steves@kepler.UUCP (Steve Schlich) writes:
>
>You won't get PageMaker for 34.90 because of a misprint or a typo.  Read
>the fine print at the bottom left of the ad in question.  Such errors are
>accounted for.

Although I don't approve of getting on these people's case because of an
honest error (assuming it IS an honest error), it IS illegal to advertise
something at a price and then not honor that price.  The disclaimer, virtually
always included in ads that quote prices, may give the seller some protection
in some states.  However, if you complain enough to the right people (or
threaten to complain to the right agencies), the seller will probably back
down to avoid trouble.

Given that the lead time for most magazines is around 3 months, I would say
that if the price is misquoted in print three months in a row, the seller
must know that he is advertising the wrong price and hasn't bothered to
change it.  Then I would get mad.  Or even.

-Eric.