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By now most of you in B.C. will be aware that Cardz computers is no longer in
operation.
 
I was only minorly affected by the "closure": I lost one month of my
subscription to their BBS and and additional $60 that was charged to my credit
card for an additional one year subscription.  Any hardware I had bought from
them, I had long since re-sold, or it was past warranty anyway.

I have tried to determine if the company went into bankruptcy.  To my
astonishment this is not the case.  As far as *I* can tell, the owner simply
decided that he wan't making a big enough profit any more, so that was that.

I find it hard to believe that he isn't in jail yet.  People bought products
from him in good faith, up to the day he closed shop.  Part of their purchase
is the extension of waranty support.  Conveniently I hear, he will provide them
with the receipts they need in order to get support/replacements from the
wholesalers he originaly bought the parts from, in exchange for $10 for his
trouble!  BBS subscriptions reflect a one year provision of a BBS service. The
fact that the BBS closed down, means that there are subscibers (by Cardz's
numbers over 3,000 of them) that are owed a refund on part of their
subscription.
 
If CARDZ was bancrupt, I would put a claim against their assets for my $65. 
now this may be a ridiculous amount and given the likely assets in a bancruptsy
I might get either nothing or a couple of dimes.  Fair enough.  But I would
still be ahead both morally and financially over what I am now.
 
So I ask: Can any businessman wake up one morning and close his store down
ignoring the obligations he has contracted with his clients?  Isn't this a
scam?  Why hasn't the owner been arrested yet?


What am I missing?

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