Archive for January, 2007

Froogle and PC World in cahoots?

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Maybe its in the terms of Froogle but follow me down this path of mystery ;)

Mr Customer wants to buy a Sony VAIO SZ3XWP/C Laptop.

Sony Laptop
So, he checks on PC World business and see’s that it costs £1345 for that model.

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Not wanting to be out done on a bargain he checks the prices of other sites by using Froogle.

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He sees that this laptop is listed on Froogle as being the cheapest at PC World business, but wait!! Wasn’t that laptop just £1345 at that same place?!

After clicking on the link to check that this is true he goes back to his other PC World Business screen and refreshes the page only to find this:

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If you then clear your cookies though, its back to the lower price!

You can check this yourself using these links:

First Use This One
Then Click This One
Then Refresh the first page.