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#60485
03/10/2002 6:32 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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I was trying to find something in a sale flyer in today's paper, and ran across the following:
"Items indicated on sale or referencing a comparative former or future price represent reductions from former or future offering prices (with or without actual sales) at [this store] or at a competitor of the item or of comparable merchandise."
We SAID it was on sale. We mean it (more or less).
TEd
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#60486
03/10/2002 6:55 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Sounds like it was written by a former or future political speech writer or future or past presidential hopeful. 
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#60487
03/10/2002 7:38 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Sounds like an ad for a furniture retailer here who got slammed by the feds for dishonest pricing practices.
The week before an ad they would increase the price of their merchandise substantially then during the ad week they'd "mark everything down" for !!BIG BIG SAVINGS!!
The problem was that they would mark everything down to the price of two weeks before - or higher.
The nutsy part is that they were not slammed for this, they were slammed because they did not put a disclaimer, like your example above, on their circulars to warn clients that the prices may or may not be really lower.
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#60488
03/10/2002 9:25 PM
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old hand
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old hand
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Sounds like an ad for a furniture retailer here who got slammed by the feds for dishonest pricing practices.
Well, BelM, if my ever-so-weak memory serves aright, "sale" is the French word for "dirty," is it not? So why are these lunatics advertising dirty products?
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#60489
03/11/2002 2:36 AM
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And the French word for sale - solde - confuses out of towners who think they are too late and that everything on sales is already gone and sold. 
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