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Notorious merchant reportedly returns to Yahoo! Shopping - Updated!

Blogger "Thomas Hawk" led a campaign to reveal the bait-and-switch and high-pressure phone sales tactics of online merchant PriceRitePhoto.  This was latched onto by hundreds of angry bloggers and stories ran in the New York Times and in Forbes.. The notoriety ultimately led to PriceRitePhoto being dropped from Yahoo! Shopping and other shopping sites.

Hawk reported in December that PriceRitePhoto was resurfacing under a different company name, BarclaysPhoto. Today he points out that BarclaysPhoto is listed as a merchant on Yahoo! Shopping and wonders,
    So here's the question. How, after becoming probably the most visible online sleazy retailer in the last year, does PriceRitePhoto (aka BarclaysPhoto) end back up on Yahoo! Shopping in three months?
Hmm... Good question.



UPDATED 5:14PM This has been Dugg 2882 times (what's the record?) and has a huge conversation going on at Digg.

UPDATED 3/14/06 BarclaysPhoto cannot be found on Yahoo! shopping.

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