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Comment playing off peoples stupidity (Score 1) 895

by goobenet on Thursday August 07, 2008 @06:21PM (#24517769) Attached to: New Study Finds Low Interest In Blu-ray

Another key item nobody is noticing is that a LOT of people think that with the impending doom of analog TV, that they need a new HD set... and quite a few big (yellow) stores are telling people exactly that. Other cases are that the man in the house sees it as a good excuse to get his new flat panel for football season, but forgets to tell the wife about the converter boxes for $60 (speaking of, thanks uncle sam for kicking in the $40, but you may have wanted to PRICE FIX THAT!)

Submission + - RIAA "Expert Witness" Deposed by Slashdott

Submitted by Stanistani on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @02:17PM

Stanistani writes: Slashdotter Ray Beckermann NewYorkCountryLawyer yesterday grilled the RIAA's so-called expert witness in the UMG v. Lindor case. Defense Attorney Beckermann invites the Slashdot and Groklaw communities to "see the fruits of their labor."

Journal Journal: Slashdot is at it's most entertaining 2

Journal by Marxist Hacker 42 on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @02:12PM

When I get something wrong in a factual but interesting way. No need for a flame war, so I haven't responded to any of the 10 responses (so far, it's high enough up and it's the first REAL comment, so it will probably get 50 responses eventually) to me, but all have been entertaining to read.

Feed Radio: Anti-Payola Guidelines OK (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @02:12PM

The Future of Music Coalition, working to end payola so independent labels get the same radio play as the majors, announce the FCC and broadcasters agree to its rules. In Listening Post.

Submission + - Best Buy redefines "best"

Submitted by

Uknowwhoibe

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @01:49PM

Uknowwhoibe writes: "http://www.kantor.com/2007/03/03/best-buy-creates- scam-site-to-trick-customers/ So Best Buy was apparently caught red-handed screwing over its customers. George Gombossy of the Hartford Courant gets the major-league kudos for exposing this. (And Gnomic gets a hat tip from me for pointing it out!) See, Best Buy had a secret intranet it used to trick customers. Note that the word is intranet — that is, an internal Web site. According to Gombossy, if a customer went to a sales person and commented that he thought such-and-such an item was cheaper online, the sales guy would pull up a Web site that looked like the real Best Buy Web site, but was in fact an internal site where the prices were higher. ...even when one informs a salesperson of the Internet price, customers have been shown the intranet site, which looks identical to the Internet site, but does not always show the lowest price. Thus the sales guy could say something like, "Actually, sir, it's more expensive on the Web." You had to be the kind of person who would either A) print out the Web page and bring it in to the store, or B) check the price online when you got home. Based on what his office has learned, [Connecticut State Attorney General Richard] Blumenthal said, it appears the consumer has the burden of informing Best Buy sales people of the cheaper price listed on its Internet site, which he said "is troubling." Further, Best Buy had denied that such a site existed. What I want to know is, has Best Buy also created spoofs of its competitors' sites? That way, a sales guy could say, "Let's see what Circuit City has it for" and pull up a higher — but fake — price. That would make the customer think Best Buy had better prices, and the store could avoid matching a competitor's price. Hmm."

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