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* Huggy * wrote:

> From my previous experiences, Future Shop does increase the price on
> most of the products on Boxing Day.  In fact the christmas special
> price tags say that the prices are effective until December 24.  It
> seems that they take the advantage of consumer orgy on Boxing Day.

Good for them. I think it is commendable that they offer the deals before Christmas
instead of  waiting until after so they can dump the merchandise that they over bought
like all the other stores do. However, after my last few dealings with Future Shop, I
won't be making any purchases there. I bought a computer for my father last January. It
was supposed to come with the Windows 95 software. When I unpacked the system and set it
up there was no Windows CD as listed in the packing slip. I called the store immediately
and they promised to find it for me They never got back to me, and I had to call several
times.

Eventually, I was told that they would order a new CD for me, and it would take a few
weeks. After a month, I called and was told they would check into it. A few days later I
got a call from t he store saying it was in, but by the time I got to the store to pick
it up, it had disappeared.  The salesman told me that he had had to pay for it himself,
and that he could not afford to pay for a second one.  He must have thought that I  would
be willing to accept a system with a licenced copy of the operating system that I had
paid for.  It took more than four months a lot of phone calls and several personal visits
to get the software that was supposed  to come with it.

I had also bought a bubble jet printer with the system.  That stopped working in August.
It was taken back to the store and came back Sept. 24. I took it back to my father's, set
it up and discovered that, after all that time, it still did not work. So it went back to
Future Shop the next day and was gone for more than a month. I insisted that they check
it before accepting it and as told that it was now workng, but needed to be cleaned.

How different they are form my local computer shop. When my key board died after 11 1/2
months I called up. The owner checked his records and told me to bring it right over
because I still had two weeks warranty. He replaced it without questions.  Considering
that was the only problem I had in a year and I had not had to stand around for an hour
or more on each of several visits, as had had done with Future Shop), I probably saved
two days of travel and waiting.





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>
> Last year, the Digital Camera I bought... a week before boxing day...
> the price blew up by $30 (~15% of special price) on boxing day;   yet
> what a line of customers...  I saw a line of customers waiting outside
> to get into the stores... to buy something more expensive... cheaper
> if they did buy a week ago... why not... they didn't have to line up
> as well... for no reason.
>
> If you are interested, check it out by urself.  I will be probably
> taking the prices down in my notes and then post the results later...
> after Boxing Day... and indeed.............
>
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