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It's Christmas in August!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmF2lCXV8lQ

I remember the bait and switch was big with these stores. The stuff they advertised was not in stock, but they tried to sell you what they did have.

I'm surprised they didn't discover what Sir Alan Sugar had: that you could make more money on house branded stuff made in Hong Kong.

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The NYC camera stores were famous for this: "That Nikon lens is out of stock but we've got a Zeus lens for the same price and it's actually a better lens".

This was also lampooned in Adam Sandler's movie Zohan, with electronic store employees proclaiming everything had "Sony guts!".

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