Re: Beware: CompUSA Hard Drive theft! Don't buy there!

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From: Joe
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 00:00

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When EggHead was still in the retail store business, they would
re-shrink-wrap returned software and place it back on the shelves until it
burned them. The people returning the software had viruses and infected the
returned disks. There were big warning signs an apologies at my local store
at that time....


zzz wrote in message <3758ce81.18489929@news.erols.com>...
>Good point. I think you probably nailed down what happened in this
>case. I have heard of that happening, but I didn't think of it.
>
>There must be a huge amount of used, returned merchandise that is sold
>as new in this business. If COMP USA can do it, imagine what the small
>retail and mail order vendors get away with! It's one thing to get a
>completely different product than the one you paid for, but it is
>quite another to get a used product that is sold as new rather than
>"refurbished." But it undoubtedly happens regularly in the computer
>industry.
>
>
>

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Subject: Re: Beware: CompUSA Hard Drive theft! Don't buy there!
Date: 1999/06/04
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