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Best Buy Accused of Overcharging

Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:36:27 PM
By STEPHANIE REITZ

 High-definition TVs on display at a Best Buy store in Mountain View, Calif., in this Sept. 12, 2006 file photo. Connecticut's attorney general announced a lawsuit Thursday, May 24, 2007 against Best Buy Co. Inc., accusing the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer of deceiving customers with in-store computer kiosks and overcharging them. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut's attorney general announced a lawsuit Thursday against Best Buy Co. Inc., accusing the nation's largest consumer electronics retailer of deceiving customers with in-store computer kiosks and overcharging them.

The lawsuit accuses Best Buy of denying deals found at the company's Web site, http://www.BestBuy.com. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said store employees charged customers higher prices found on a lookalike internal Web site.

"Best Buy gave consumers the worst deal — a bait-and-switch-plus scheme luring consumers into stores with promised online discounts, only to charge higher in-store prices," Blumenthal said.


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