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echo: crossfire
to: WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
from: Ed Hulett
date: 2006-12-05 09:00:54
subject: Loss leader

WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ED HULETT wrote:
 -=>> ED HULETT wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 EH>> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ED HULETT wrote:
 -=>>> ED HULETT wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 EH>>> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE -> ALL wrote:
 WC>>>  * Originally in: LINUX

 WC>>> Scam alert.
 WC>>> Those with vast retail sales experience should be forewarned
 WC>>> of a sales scam.
 WC>>> Best Buy recently offered a deal of 19.95 for a
 WC>>> Sandisk 1GB flash disk.

 WC>>> Sold out on web page.
 WC>>> Sold out at local dealership.

 WC>>> This item in my opinion was offered as a limited loss leader
 WC>>> to get you into the store in a bait and switchh scheme
 WC>>> to get your money as they rely on stupid people being determined to
 WC>>> spend their money.

 EH>>> Ever hear of a raincheck for sold out items?

 WC>>> Intelligent people, please ignore this post.

 EH>>> Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

 EH>>> Idiot.

 WC>> Again Ed, you didn't ignore the post as advised in advance.

 EH>> You didn't advise anything "in advance."

 WC>> Could you be hanging on on my every word more closely as
 WC>> your replies come back in near real time?

 EH>> I edited my other post in "near real time."

 WC> I see quotes there, you couldn't of thunked nothin
 WC> up original on your own?

I have original thoughts all the time.

 WC>> I'm quick because disabled and bedridden with none but the
 WC>> computer for company.

 EH>> If you want my sympathy, you will be disappointed.

 WC> Well your sympathy and a buck will buy me a cup f coffee.
 WC> Hey wait now, I have coffee.
 WC> I'll be right back as I am putting some on.
 WC>
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 WC> Sorry to keep you hanging, I'm back.


 WC>> What's your excuse?

 EH>> I keep odd hours.

 WC> Not the only thing odd about you I dare venture.

The hours are "odd" not me.

 WC>> No life?

 EH>> I have a complete life outside FIDO.

 WC> Goody for you.

 WC>> No woman will give you the time of day?

 EH>> I have several female friends, thank you.

 WC> Did you ever seek treatment for that rash you contracted?

What rash?

Ed

-- 
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of
virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." -- Thomas
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