29 Aug
1998
29 Aug
'98
3:09 a.m.
Doug Spence wrote:
These were common, but definitely NOT low-cost! I
didn't bother to find
out how much they were until after I had already paid for them (dammit!).
The prices weren't on them, only bar codes.
Something which I think should be illegal.
Most of the computers in my collection cost me less than those two 9-pin
connectors. (The connectors were about $5 each!)
You're young yet. When the item doesn't have a visible price, the
standard system is to go to the first employee you can catch (tricky
in some electronics/computer stores I'll admit) and ask "what's this
bastard cost?" (I learned that trick by the time I was eight, people
keep telling me that schools in Canada are better than those I kept
from ruining my education in California by having
acquired a library
before the schools acquired me, but sometimes I wonder). It
_is_
possible to turn down a transaction at the checkout counter in most
places I know -- I must assume you were paying by card rather than
cash and didn't read the slip you were signing -- I'm sorry if you
get offended by the term "evolution in action". Marry a girl with
financial sense and your kids should be fine.
I know of one place that is considerably less
expensive than Radio Shack,
but it's much more expensive in time. It takes me about two hours to get
there by BMW (Bus, Metro, Walk).
If Intertan has changed policies that radically from Tandy in the
past decade, it hasn't been mentioned in the stockholder reports I
get -- you _can_ ask the price and you _can_ read the charge slip
before you sign it.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
Bill Gates has this situation where the federal government wants him
convicted for attempting a monopoly. Has Bill considered responding
with a question as to why there's only one Justice Department?