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

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From: Ben Hoff
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 22:05
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A restocking fee indicates that they restock items and sell them again. If
they are defective they are returned but I see no evidence that CompUSA
doesn't sell as much not-perfectly-knew equipment as anyone else.

"Mike Berger" <berger@shout.net> wrote in message
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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: "Ben Hoff" <goodidea1950@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: BEWARE of COMPUSA - Before shopping there, read this!!
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