[aclug-L] Re: Sales and lack of stock and non-rain check! Was:Re: Re: If you had a Win98se Question what forum/blog would you go to?

[bruce <bbales@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 02 January 2006 07:39, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * DAVID CARMICHAEL <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx> [2006 Jan 02 03:23 -0600]:
>
> > Newspaper did not get delivered to my house till 11am
> > Sunday am.. Wife saw the "$199.00" CompUSA system. We
> > check both the phone stock and online stock status and
> > the item is listed as in stock.. so just to make sure
> > before we drove I called the store directly and was
> > told that the store was not connected to the stocking
> > system and they only had five of the systems which
> > were sold out when the store opened at 9am... But
> > called back and spoke to a different clerk a few hours
> > later and was told "...the manager would only allow us
> > to sell five on sale but have 15 in stock...which is
> > why the stock status is stating the item is in
> > stock..." While the addvert says "Limited to stock on
> > hand" is this leagl??

I read that $199 offer and, if I recall correctly, the price required 
signing up for two years of AOL, which made it sound like not an 
exceptional deal.
bruce 

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