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Stealth & Secureacom rip-off scam

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From: Jay
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:44
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Stealth & Secureacom rip-off scam



Beware of a deceitful practice that Stealth has apparently been doing for 
years. Months after your contract ends they contact you with a claim that 
the contract is still enforce and you owe lots of money. They follow this up 
with bullying tactics.



Their position is the contract has a self-renewal clause wherein you have to 
give several months' written cancellation notice otherwise the contract is 
automatically renewed for a year, or more.



This is so unscrupulous on many counts, and it seems to be a long standing 
business policy. They wait a long time for the account to build up the bucks 
before they drop their bomb. A fair and respectable business would give 
advance notice of this situation before the initial contract draws to an 
end; not Stealth.  A fair and respectable business would not have such a 
vague, insidious clause; not Stealth.  A fair and respectable business would 
ensure their salesmen point out and explain the intent of the vague clause, 
rather than implant a different impression i.e. that the contract actually 
ends after a specific time (as most contracts normally do), not Stealth.



It is no wonder they have been suspended once already for their business 
practices. Yet it still goes on.



Anybody else been victimized by this scam?
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