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Old 08-17-2015, 09:39 PM   #33
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
The manager I talked to said it was a Paperwhite. She had no idea there was more than one. Most people don't.
In other words, the only factor here is the astounding incompetence of the average Sam's Club employee?

The fact that people don't bother to research their purchases does not make it illegal to charge arbitrary or ludicrous prices.



Numerous pieces of consumer technology come in multiply-updated models. It is not entirely unlike buying an "iPhone" and getting upset when it turns out you paid $700 for the iPhone 3G...
Although a better comparison would be buying an "iPhone" and complaining when it turned out to be the iPhone 5S instead of the iPhone 6.
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