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google checkout fraud or booboo?

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Subject: google checkout fraud or booboo?
From: "Jaye Inabnit, ke6sls" <ke6sls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:56:54 -0800
Hi all:

I'm shopping for a new cell battery for my old Motorola V262.  I started my 
google search and noticed a new Google Checkout" button.  I clicked on it and 
selected only to view the google checkout items.  Now this is where it gets 
interesting.  On the main page is a listing for a 950mah battery, when I 
click on it to buy, I'm shown a new page for a 700mah battery FOR A SLIGHTLY 
LARGER PRICE. . .  Is this bate and switch?  Is it legal?  How about all the 
non-geek folks who don't even know what 'mah' is and why it matters--they 
could so easily be suckered by this sham.  

This is the main page listing items for the search:
http://www.google.com/products?q=motorola+v262+battery&btnG=Search+Products&checkout=1&sa=N&lnk=next&start=10

Here's the page I get when I select the 950mah battery:
http://www.cellularfactory.com/pro_fro.jsp?c=9140&t=6429

Note how it went from listing a 950mah battery for $8.89 to a 700mah battery 
for $10.89.  

Tricky!  BUYER BEWARE!  In fact the page doesn't even list a 950mah battery.  
Be careful out there folks.  Still, it's odd this is happening from 
google--I'd think they would have a checkbox or something to alert the google 
folks to this behavior.  

I would attach screen shots, but our listserver always rejects them.

regards
-- 
jaye, ke6sls

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