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Re: BEWARE of COMPUSA - Before shopping there, read this!!

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From: Mike Berger
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 17:09
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The downside is that a store that makes it easy to return merchandise
has to resell that same merchandise as new.  So you increase your chances
of buying previously-handled-and-returned merchandise.  That's one of the
"benefits" of the liberal return policy.

Ching Tai wrote:

> This way, I reward the no-return-fee AND cheapest
> stores.  I hate to have all those return-fee stores
> go out-of-business :)  But I also hate to have to pay
> a return fee.
>
> However, I live in silicon valley where there are
> many no-return-fee stores that is also cheap.
>
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From: Mike Berger <berger@shout.net>
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Subject: Re: BEWARE of COMPUSA - Before shopping there, read this!!
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