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 Posted: Sat Aug 26th, 2006 07:34 pm
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KenC



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 Speaking of not honoring their word............I always thought that Circuit City was a "stand-up" outfit until I just found out they were into fraudulent "bait & switch" advertising. I got their email flyer about their great "Back-to-School" notebok computer deal with rebates and free "goodies" package including printer, WIFI router, etc. I went to the local store to buy one and was told they had upgraded them by putting $20 worth of worthless software on them like Norton Security and some other crap just as useless and had booted the price by about $150 for "parts & labor". coyote2.gif

I thought "no sweat", I'll just order it off of their site. Come to find out, they have no central shipping warehouse for their web sales....evrything is shipped out of their local store inventory according to your ZIP.....so it was "not available".

I called customer service and they agreed that it was bait & switch and then called the store to check on it. Come to find out, according to Circuit City CS, that the Circuit City Regional VP (a Jason Fox at 303-657-5928 - Oscar, delete if inappropriate) ordered all of his stores to do this to 70% of the notebooks on sale!


To me, it is a classic case of "bait & switch"............oh hell....it's just out-and-out FRAUD.

Guess CC Corporate and then the State Attorney Generals Office gets a warm and friendly phone call from me on Monday!yossam1.gif

I had always thought of Circuit City as a reputable company........do you think they've been bought out by Invicta?