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Re: Future Shop Customers

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From: Kobay
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 00:00
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Last year I bought my Computer from the Future Shop on Dec 12 and I paid
$ 2200.00. Was I pissed off because 1 month later I could have bought twice
the Computer for the same amount of money.
    The lesson that I learned is do not buy anything from them until mid
January.


* Huggy * wrote in message <367d3497.6206370@news.sprint.ca>...
>
>Hi.
>
>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.
>
>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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From: "Kobay" <Kobay@netcom.caNOSPAM>
Subject: Re: Future Shop Customers
Date: 1998/12/20
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