Watch out for COMPUSA!

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They just had a 'bundle' offer of an EPSON R320 Photoprinter with an
external hard drive.

The sale in the paper and on their web site said the sale was good
thru 3/12 (today), Abruptly, on 3/10, they issued a new ad both
places without the R320. In fact the latter is no offered at regular
price.

I called a store (far away) who told me they did not know what I was
talking about. I emailed COMPUSA twice on the subject, but they
choose not to answer. I searched for a phone number (other than a
store) to no avail.

Makes me wonder what would have happened if I had bought the thing.

Cheers
 
geezer said:
They just had a 'bundle' offer of an EPSON R320 Photoprinter with an
external hard drive.

The sale in the paper and on their web site said the sale was good
thru 3/12 (today), Abruptly, on 3/10, they issued a new ad both
places without the R320. In fact the latter is no offered at regular
price.

I called a store (far away) who told me they did not know what I was
talking about. I emailed COMPUSA twice on the subject, but they
choose not to answer. I searched for a phone number (other than a
store) to no avail.

Makes me wonder what would have happened if I had bought the thing.

Cheers
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It's not the first time they've done that (not that I'm in the US, but I
have friends over there). PC World (the UK equvalent to CompUSA in that
they're about the same size and their practices are about as clear - can't
think of another word) had a similar deal over here not so long ago (except
I think the printer was a Canon i560). People queued clutching the advert
they'd clipped from the paper, only for PCW to turn round and say they'd
withdrawn the offer! They were forced to honour it when someone involved
Trading Standards but, obviously, it didn't do anything for their - already
poor - reputation.
 
Miss Perspicacia Tick said:
It's not the first time they've done that (not that I'm in the US, but
I have friends over there). PC World (the UK equvalent to CompUSA in
that they're about the same size and their practices are about as
clear - can't think of another word) had a similar deal over here not
so long ago (except I think the printer was a Canon i560). People
queued clutching the advert they'd clipped from the paper, only for
PCW to turn round and say they'd withdrawn the offer! They were forced
to honour it when someone involved Trading Standards but, obviously,
it didn't do anything for their - already poor - reputation.
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That is very sad news. Alex will really be missed.
 
geezer said:
They just had a 'bundle' offer of an EPSON R320 Photoprinter with an
external hard drive.

The sale in the paper and on their web site said the sale was good
thru 3/12 (today), Abruptly, on 3/10, they issued a new ad both
places without the R320. In fact the latter is no offered at regular
price.

I called a store (far away) who told me they did not know what I was
talking about. I emailed COMPUSA twice on the subject, but they
choose not to answer. I searched for a phone number (other than a
store) to no avail.

Makes me wonder what would have happened if I had bought the thing.
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Did you call the paper to find out if it was THEIR misprint?
 
I don't know if he did or not. I used to work at K-mart when I was in high
school. When there would be a misprint, the stores were notified and a
notice was placed on the doors for the customers to see as they walked in.
If it had been a misprint, the store should have known and simply told him
that it was a misprint.
 
I guess I was unclear. The price and the date was in print
(newspaper) AND ON THE INTERNET at www.compusa.com!

Thanks
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They might have made a mistake. I know I was a bit confused when I
went yesterday. Usually the sale runs from Sundays ad to the next
weekend at the end of saturdays store hours. I went yesterday during
the day hoping at the last minute to get the Maddog dvd burner as a
back up --- they use NECs in their boxes and it was $49 after rebate a
great deal for my region. I was hesitating but decided to go and sign
up for a raincheck since they tend to sell out any decent sales item
--- in two days or so.

However they told me bacause they had a special sale on saturday which
everyone knew about ---- they cut the usual sale period off early
friday instead of the usual end of saturday deadline.

If you had the printout and it really did say until saturday all you
have to do is go down to the store and theyll sell you one. I went
down when they had a price MISTAKE on the web site the Viewsonic for
100 bucks less than their sales price and they honored it and thats a
RARE occurence since everyone has a disclaimer about price mistakes.
You really cant hold them to it but they gave it to me and others
anyway.

Anyway this week is a special week --- they have some kind anniversary
sale or something and had some great deals last weekend and all
through the week and then added a different sale starting from 6 at
night last night which was a rare madhouse in this region with lines
down the block and a frenzied atmosphere inside like the old days a
few years ago when everyone was doing crazy rebate deals all the time.

Everyone was posting about it at some sites. They got some systems for
dirt cheap , Seagate 160gig HD drives with 5 year warranty (I got one)
for $39 which went real fast , G router for $7.99 etc I was only
interested in the hard drive though.
 
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