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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Lawsuit: Best Buy lies
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>> | A class action lawsuit was filed yesterday
>> | against Best Buy alleging that its "Price
>> | Match Guarantee" is a fraud.
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>> http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-bar-tender/2009/10/lawsuit-best-buy-lies.html
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> Reminds me when I worked for a company moving into the consumer market
> (from an industrial market base). I ran across several prospective
> retailers that insisted on having their own specific model numbers on
> the same, identical product sold through other retailers. In this way
> they never worried about their low price guarantee failing, as the
> prospective customer would never match the model with any other retailer.
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> This practice is still widely used today by appliance retailers.
So Microsoft could also rebadge Linux, make it look and behave like LFS, and then justify
that Linux-hostile marketing material from Best Buy. :-)
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