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BTW, check out Home Depot's ad for today, several appliance prices are wrong - THEY ARE TOO HIGH!!! I know, I changed the signs myself yesterday.

puma guy wrote: My son-in-laws father took me to the Cabela's north of Ft Worth when I visited recently. On the way he pointed out the CTD store. He made a comment that the store and online are not "connected". I assumed he meant online prices are not the same as the store and didn't ask what he meant. How about it - Anyone know? I know HarborFreight honors online prices in store, don't know about places like Gander Mountain and Cabela's.

Their brick and mortar stores are not the same as their online store, they do mention it somewhere online.

Surely you could find one person who could advance your thesis about Lexis/Nexis, otherwise that even fails as a point. By any standard of debate you have to be able to back up such statements, particularly the ones prefaced "I am sure . . ."

Thomas wrote:How about this one: If I write out my tax returns, get the numbers wrong, but stamp a disclaimer saying that any mistakes are not my fault, what do you think the IRS will do? (keep in mind by definition and logic, no analogy will ever be perfect)

They will give you a chance to correct your errors.

Still defective. You would come closer by saying that if someone else prepares your return, etc, as happens, but even then, YOU are signing that return as being 100% accurate, so . . .

Like I said, too many steps in the process, you can try suing them in small claims court, but I'll bet that dollar that I don't owe you that the court wouldn't even accept the suit, it's just not tortable because the ad has the disclaimer. OTOH, if you could find a way to prove that someone in the chain, say at corporate level, decided to run the ad with the wrong price, or knowing that there were none available (bait and switch), then you would have a point, and would find it in L/N too.

Thomas wrote:"driver's license represents a contract" - "represents" maybe, "is" definitely not.

How so? Why, then, can they take it away without due process? By going through the process to obtain a license to operate a motor vehicle on the public highways, you have obligated yourself to obey the laws pertaining to operating a motor vehicle on those highways, which is, by definition, a contract.

Thomas wrote:by reading this, you owe me $1

I charge a lot more than that for presenting training, I'll take it off your bill.

Thomas wrote:

jimlongley wrote:If you read all the fine print at the bottom of the newspaper insert, you will find their disclaimer that they are not responsible for incorrect pricing in the ad.

I can put a sticker on my windshield that I'm not responsible for any red lights I might run. Obvious exaggeration, but IMO it still doesn't make things right.

EDIT: I imagine if I had access to Nexis Lexis, I could probably find some case law that proves that notice isn't worth the paper it's written on, but even then they could still refuse service to a customer.

Why don't you just ask someone who has that access?

The analogy you provide is meaningless, and actually your driver's license represents a contract that says exactly the opposite. The disclaimer is included in the ad in case a copy writer gets it wrong, or a machine operator, or any other link in the chain, and the individual store is not responsible for the ad in the first place, so it's time to take it up with corporate.

Lest you feel that I am being intransigent or something, I should point out that in my retail job I have actually done a price match against another store chain's misprinted ad, which they themselves were honoring, to the tune of $700.00 on one transaction.

If you read all the fine print at the bottom of the newspaper insert, you will find their disclaimer that they are not responsible for incorrect pricing in the ad.