There is an anouther decision of the problem whith
<?php echo substr(wpsc_the_product_description(),0,250); ?>
It is<?php $excerpt=strip_tags(wpsc_the_product_description()); echo substr($excerpt,0,250)."..."; ?>
And no mud in your template.
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