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Old 18th Apr 03, 04:34 PM
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Re-code.com contained a database of bar codes with instructions on how to print them on stickers. It suggested visitors "chose their own prices" by, for instance, sticking a bar code for generic cereal on a name-brand box in the store.


The Web site's creators called it a work of satire intended to create a discussion on how prices are set by corporations. It went online March 20.


A letter from Wal-Mart's lawyers to one of the companies involved in hosting the site said re-code.com encouraged a modern version of the old scam of taking price tags from a cheap items and putting them on more expensive ones.
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Old 19th Apr 03, 09:55 AM
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The grey beards on these corporations just don't have a sense of humour.
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Old 20th Apr 03, 05:11 AM
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Heck half of the time it doesn't matter as the bar codes either can't be read when scanned or if they are on sale they are not put into the computer so when they are scanned that the sale price is given etc etc etc.

What else is new with money hungry corporations?
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It may be theft but its a really kewl concept, and a fun way to play the system

Only you may have to think of a very good excuse as to why the product your buying has a cheaper barcode stuck over the top of the original barcode.
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I've got a program that prints barcodes.

I know a barcode which works and comes up as a reduced item in Wal*mart/ASDA

If you make a barcode with 20527000### where### is the price in the format e.g. 077 or 177. That barcode is universal.
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