[ale] OT: Circuit Bait-and-Switch

[James P. Kinney III]

Yuck! An electronic book club. Blech! Another reason to not use AOL.

On Tue, 2002-03-26 at 19:01, Adrin wrote:
> Personally, After my dealings with CC and their service
> department.  I don't even look at the ads from them anymore.
> On a lighter note I got a good laugh From Howard Clark today
> about AOL and a law suite that is trying to go class action
> against them.
> 
> They have a new BaS method.  Lets call it the BaS pop-up
> method.  You get an AOL pop-up for a product and if you
> don't click no
> You get the product in a few days and AOL will put the bill
> on your credit card.
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Fowler [mailto:cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 5:53 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] OT: Circuit Bait-and-Switch
> 
> Computer related.
> 
> Circuit City's new circular has a Todhiba laptop for $699.
> We went to go
> look for them on the
> day the sale began and found no CC that had them in stock.
> It just so
> happens the next model
> costs $1199.  I'm thinking that CC is using BaS tactics to
> sell that higher
> priced notebook.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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