KOIN News 6 of Portland, Oregon is reporting a Best Buy employee’s testimony concerning his store’s manager denying the sales of Xbox 360s unless an addition bundle of extraneous software was also purchased. According to the article, shoppers seeking to buy an Xbox 360 “were told the price would be different from what was advertised”. The manager allegedly told his employees that the advertised price ($299 or $399) was incorrect and that the real price would be several hundreds of dollars higher due to the forced addition of a software bundle to the mix.

The Best Buy employee who ratted out his boss only went by the alias “Chris”, who came forth because “Pretty much [...]I felt that what the company was doing was unfair, and I felt bad”. In response to these allegations, the Oregon Attorney General’s Office has opened a file on this debauchery.

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