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Originally Posted by barryem
Best Buy does that as well. I nearly bought a laptop from them till I compared features of the same model with those listed on the manufacturer's website. I did this after reading a warning about this a couple of years earlier about another laptop and that it was a common practice at Best Buy to have a special version of popular devices built for them with fewer features.
At least in the case of the laptop I compared there was a small difference in price but not nearly enough to account for the missing features. I bought the laptop on Amazon at the regular price, which was nearly the same as Best Buy's sale price.
I have bought things from Best Buy but I do so very carefully.
Barry
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Part of the reason, is it stops Price Matching claims.
Some just house branded their models
I used to work on older VCR's
RCA also made Sear,and Radio Shack versions (trim and minor circuit diffs. all mechanical s were interchangeable). Just look at some older e-readers (see MR's index) : Astak, BeBook...
Hanlin V5 sold as many different brands