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21 Dec 2008
About a month ago, I wrote about how Sears had started selling “50 inch class” TVs in place of actual “50 inch” TVs. The fine print revealed that the actual size of the TV might be 49.5 inches or what have you. At the end of the article, I was musing about vendor honesty. I said:

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28 Nov 2008
In the Black Friday advertisements sent around this week, I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before. In the Sears and K-Mart flyers, TVs were advertised as being “32 inch class” or “50 inch class” or whatever. Never a “32 inch” TV, but a “32 inch class” TV.

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