From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 10 12:56:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E65837B41C for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15787 invoked by uid 100); 10 Dec 2001 20:56:43 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15381.8587.64993.130741@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:56:43 -0600 To: Konstantinos Konstantinidis Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best service on earth! In-Reply-To: <3C14EE71.91ECF654@duth.gr> References: <20011210123010.A259@tisys.org> <3C14A495.841A203D@duth.gr> <01121013063303.00345@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <20011210173831.A1975@tisys.org> <3C14EE71.91ECF654@duth.gr> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Konstantinos Konstantinidis types: > I've been told by some people that this is dishonest, but frankly, I > don't think so. When I am getting an offer I can't refuse, that's what > I do - I don't refuse it. I am not going to sit and argue with an employee > of a huge nation-wide coroporation how ridiculous the price for a particular > item is, I'll just go ahead and buy it if I want it. In the US, this is not only dishonest, but the merchants are required *by law* to honor marked prices. I once got a great deal on a microwave. When I opened the box at home, it was the much cheaper model, not the one marked on the display. I take it back the next day, and they gave me the one that they had incorrectly marked. Along with the other two people who were in line to get theirs exchanged. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message