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Dan Mckinnon wrote:

> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard James Antoniou <boethius@*dontspamme*.mother.com> wrote:
>
> > I never thought I'd spring to the defense of Computer Warehouse, but it
> > may, in fact, be a misprint and, if so, why, exactly, SHOULD they honor
> > something that another party misprinted?  Having been with a company that
> > advertised with CCN for a number of years, I can say with an opinion based
> > in some experience that CCN definitely has poor proofreading skills.
>
>  I'll just make one comment, in general:
>
>  Why is it, in all my fifty years, that when I have seen or heard
> mistprints or other mistakes in an advertisers pricing, they have all been
> too_low_ - that is, they would entice people to buy or go to the
> advertisers location?

If the customer didn't go to the advertiser's location, they wouldn'tknow the typo
occurred. If they did and found it cheaper, they wouldn't
be complaining about it here.

>  If they were _mistakes_, is it not common sense to assume that about 50%
> would be high, and 50% low! <G>

The 50% that were theoretically high didn't attract any customers to complain.

>  But it just does not seem to happen that way! <G>
>
>  Dan

Safe to say we never hear about it here. There are certainly retailers (i.e. Fry's)
who have a retraction at the door every time you go there that seem to be doing
what you say. Some honor the not-so-bad ones to not piss off customers. Still,
nobody faults them if somebody shifts a decimal point on a $3K system.

Dave