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Sony Reader Touch Edition PRS-600RC the iPad and Linksys Wireless N router

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Web Wise Buys with Marc Saltzman

Monday May 10, 2010

Marc Saltzman brings online shoppers a cautionary sales tale this week. He looks at the Sony Reader Touch Edition and explains why you might want to give it a miss, looks at one retailer price gouging on the Apple iPad, cashing in on a perceived shortage and warns against refurbished products, no matter what word retailers are using to indicate that the product has been returned, serviced and put back out for sale.

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Show Notes

Sony Reader Touch Edition.
Pricey at $249.99

Pricier still at $299.99 on Sony's online store.

Apple iPad
$499 from Apple

Same product for $120 more from an Amazon Market seller.

Linksys Wireless N Router recertified from Tiger Direct for $28.

Better to buy new from newegg.com for $59.99

Ironically, this product is way overpriced at AllBrandNames4less. We're not even going to link to them, in fact.

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