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Article #14667Re: Big NASTY Brother Radio Shack
From: Michael Covington
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:46
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:46
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In article <1ebbu9INN349@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes: >In article <1992Nov17.071923.7429@njitgw.njit.edu>, dcg5662@hertz.njit.edu (Dave Grabowski (KxiK)) writes: >> car radio. Grabbed a pack off the shelf, and noticed the price: a >> whopping 79 cents. A small price to pay for good tunes in the ol' Honda. >> The salesman scans it, and asks for $1.05 (99 cents plus 6 cents NJ >> sales tax). Being the consciencious (sp) consumer, I mentioned the >> twenty cent discrepancy. He refused to do ANYTHING about it -- said that > >Interesting. In the UK you could have reported them to the trading >standards people. Or in the US, the local law enforcement people (police or sheriff). It's equally illegal here. -- :- Michael A. Covington internet mcovingt@uga.cc.uga.edu :- Artificial Intelligence Programs phone 706 542-0358 :- The University of Georgia fax 706 542-0349 :- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!garrot.DMI.USherb.CA!uxa.ecn.bgu.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!emory!athena.cs.uga.edu!aisun3.ai.uga.edu!mcovingt From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) Subject: Re: Big NASTY Brother Radio Shack Message-ID: <1992Nov17.214658.2128@athena.cs.uga.edu> Sender: news@athena.cs.uga.edu Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens References: <1e9fg4INNaul@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Nov17.071923.7429@njitgw.njit.edu> <1ebbu9INN349@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:46:58 GMT Lines: 21