On 10/5/07, Michael Lye <mlye@risd.edu> wrote:
> Note that it's not just with knock-offs that this happens. Home
> despot will often ask/force their vendors to take an existing product
> and make it cheaper to meet a price point without changing the
> external appearance. Makes it seem like you're getting the same
> product cheaper at HD but in fact it may not be the same product
> inside. The manufacturer that I've spoken to isn't happy about it but
> doesn't have much choice in the matter or the don't get on the
> shelves at the HD.
This is pretty common among all the big-box places, not just
home-improvement type places. Sometimes it's the same product, but
with a new model number and packaging, to make it harder to say "It's
cheaper next door!" and take advantage of price matching. Sometimes
it's made to different specs.
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David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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