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Article #63218Re: Future Shop's false price protection?
From: Greg Goss
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 1995 00:00
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Mike_Quigley@mindlink.net (Mike Quigley) wrote: >Gee, I wrote something similar about a Vancouver hi-fi store in The >Ubyssey around 1969, and the store responded very quickly with threats >of a lawsuit! Have times changed? Consumers are angry at fraudulent advertising and exploitative tactics. So long as you are speaking the truth, then they have no right to counter with harrassment lawsuits. Future Shop dumped their price protection without mentioning that it had been dumped in their radio ads, or store posters. This makes every ad since then about price protection fraudulent and there is nothing that they can assert in a suit otherwise. I am still young and naive enough to believe that libel lawsuits are about the truth rather than about the amount of money that the lawyers have.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdf1c,a2e0967e5ee798b3 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdf1c,public X-Google-Thread: 1087d3,a2e0967e5ee798b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1087d3,public X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,a2e0967e5ee798b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083bf,public X-Google-Thread: 106cdd,a2e0967e5ee798b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid106cdd,public From: oreo@mindlink.bc.ca (Greg Goss) Subject: Re: Future Shop's false price protection? Date: 1995/11/06 Message-ID: <47k48r$grf@grid.direct.ca> X-Deja-AN: 118807927 references: <41gco3$75@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <bim_parmar.38.000F9F66@mindlink.bc.ca> <42k38l$j97@grid.Direct.CA> <42kvj3$21f@fountain.mindlink.net> <476t4p$nv1@sulla.cyberstore.ca> <4770ql$d86@grid.Direct.CA> <3097b4d3.1161608@news.mindlink.net> organization: Organization? ROFL! newsgroups: bc.general,van.general,van.forsale,ubc.ads.for-sale