On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:18 AM, Walt wrote: > On 1/7/2013 10:46 AM, P. J. Alling wrote: >> On 1/6/2013 11:17 PM, Walt wrote: >>> . . . in my Bizrate email newsletter!!!!1!11 >>> >>> I mean, this just has to be seen to be believed! >>> >>> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/8356863386 >> >> I've never seen anyone highlight a typo before. >> > > Then you obviously never had a typing class. > > In any event, that's no typo. A typo is a mistyped character. > > That is just flat-out stupidity and carelessness that exceeds the bounds of > reason. > > Either nobody checks those advertisements for accuracy (carelessness) or > someone does and actually thought it was plausible that a $77,000 camera was > marked down over 99% to a paltry $699 (flat-out stupidity).
It looked to me like someone simply neglected to input the decimal point so that 776.99 became 77699. The highlighting looks like it was done on a screenshot after the fact. > -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
