Don Alsafi of G-Mart Comics in Batavia, Illinois saw the comment from Chris Lynch of Serious Comics (see 'Chris Lynch of Serious Comics on Marvel Previews') and feels Marvel's intentions in reducing the amount of info in Previews were more benign than Lynch described them:
'Didn't Marvel take the descriptions out of the Previews in the first place because they got sued for not making items that were mis-solicited returnable? Does this mean that we can hold them responsible if a book is shipped not as solicited?'
I say 'surprised' because, frankly, that's the first time I've ever heard that theory. After all, the Marvel solicitation text still contains data on price, page count, rating and creative teams ... just not as much STORY info as in years past. And that being the case - how would removing extra story descriptions affect the returnability policies in the slightest?
As I recall, Marvel made a big noise at the time to say that they were paring down their solicitation text, essentially, to try to regain some element of surprise in the comics coming out (a move that, to a certain extent, I agree with). There will always be conspiracy theorists who wonder what the REAL motives are - and in some cases, they're probably right - but I don't think these two items are at all related.