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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 11/25/06 21:15
In article <454f446b.3101671@news-server.houston.rr.com>,
Citizen Bob <spam@uce.gov> wrote:
>On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:47:43 GMT, glenzabr@nospam.xmission.com (GMAN)
>wrote:
>
>>>[NB: Always check the packaging of any product at a retail store
>>>because they may put the returned item back on the shelf. Get only
>>>packages that have not been opened.]
>
>>Its illegal to sell an opened or returned item as new to unsuspecting
>>customers, at least here in Utah.
>I believe that's true for most states.
>That's why there is "pallet electronics" which is where eBay sellers
>get their junk.
I used to keep my ears and eyes open and my mouth shut when I'd go
browsing around in 'hi-fi' stores.
In one I heard a saleman speaking to another about how he could
re-package high-end [$100+] phono cartridges so no one could tell
they had been opened.
In another they would open the boxes of hi-fi gear - receivers and
such - very carefully from the bottom. They would then put these
on the shelf as demo units.
When someone bought a unit, they would repackage the demo [or
perhaps a returned unit] and carefully seal the bottom, and then
brag about the sealed factor packaging that was in place on top of
the box.
When our studio owner got a new system for his office, I saw the
box and said "You got that from XXXX didn't you". When he said I
was correct and asked how I knew, I pointed out the bottom of the
box that had been opened one time and carefully resealed with
the big copper staples so often used then.
And one time I bought a laser-disk at a store, and the clerk
said "let me get one from the back room so I don't have to
put another price label on a new one".
When I got it home I noticed a very small slit in the cover
where they had slit the original package, and then were renting the
disks out, and then re-selling them as new.
A few years later I ran across a person who worked there and told
him why I never trusted any of the high-futility stores [as Don
Davis calls them] because of things like this.
He countered with something like "laser disks don't wear out so
it's the same as a new disk".
He just didn't have any problems renting a disk several times,and
then selling it as new, and making gobs of profit per disk.
While re-selling use as new is probably illegal in all states,
there are a lot of people who seem to be doing it.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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