I-Opener Baint-And-Switch
from the questionable-practices dept
The Netpliance I-Opener which made headlines a few weeks back for being a $99 net appliance which, with a little tweaking could easily be turned into a PC is causing more problems now. Right after all of that came to light, Netpliance changed the terms of their deal so they require customers to sign up for their ISP. That's understandable. Now, however, they're retroactively changing the agreement for folks who ordered it under the old agreement, but haven't received it yet. That could be illegal...
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