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Old 12-10-2014, 12:45 AM
 
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I wonder what kind of students he cultured....

Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School Professor, Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food


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Old 12-10-2014, 12:59 AM
 
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Think Ran's last post nailed "the professor".
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Old 12-10-2014, 06:33 AM
 
Location: Someplace Wonderful
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Think Ran's last post nailed "the professor".
So it's ok for a business to advertise one price then charge another, higher price?
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Old 12-10-2014, 06:46 AM
 
Location: Home, Home on the Front Range
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Ideally this professor "cultured" students who will also question these sorts of discrepancies.
Or, are you suggesting that this is a bad thing?
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Old 12-10-2014, 07:01 AM
 
Location: NJ
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Reminiscent of the judge who sued the dry cleaners for 7 million dollars for losing his pants. He eventually lost but successfully ran the cleaner out of business. Isn't perversion of the law beautiful? and lucrative for lawyers!!
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Old 12-10-2014, 08:17 AM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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He's a college professor. These days, that heavily favors him being both a professional douche and having a lot of free time to fret about $1. Let alone disrupting a small business that is trying to make a living. Kind of ironic that he's a "business school" professor. I suspect he has absolutely no experience in actually running a business.
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Old 12-10-2014, 09:25 AM
 
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Holy cow! At first I thought this was a joke.

I see that Mr. Edelman has a history:

City Diary: Ben Edelman left red-faced over taking cash to bash Blinkx - Telegraph

Harvard Professor Attacking Google Thrives as Web Sheriff - Bloomberg

Someone wants to be 'famous'.
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Old 12-10-2014, 09:46 AM
 
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He's a college professor. These days, that heavily favors him being both a professional douche and having a lot of free time to fret about $1. Let alone disrupting a small business that is trying to make a living. Kind of ironic that he's a "business school" professor. I suspect he has absolutely no experience in actually running a business.
I think its a trivial amount, but in this case, the professor happens to be correct.

Its very easy to update an internet price, and if you cant get the price correct, you shouldnt have a website.
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Old 12-10-2014, 09:51 AM
 
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Reminiscent of the judge who sued the dry cleaners for 7 million dollars for losing his pants. He eventually lost but successfully ran the cleaner out of business. Isn't perversion of the law beautiful? and lucrative for lawyers!!
Not really. He asked for $12.

This is a serious problem at a lot of businesses and they treat it as such.

My local grocery store when it mischarges gives you the item for free.

There have been studies about stores mischarging and they were always ending up in the positive.

Seriously dude, did all you have to hear was "professor" or "lawyers" or "liberals" and you shut your brain off and started attacking the guy that just wanted $12?
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Old 12-10-2014, 09:54 AM
 
Location: St Paul
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The intellectual elite strike again! Minority owned, Mom & Pop businesses beware, the privileged White man is coming for you.
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