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Re: DISPUTE OVER A BILL WITH SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER!

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From: Dale Cooper
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:53
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In article <1993Jan7.164301.18217@netcom.com> jono@netcom.com (Jonathan Levine) writes:
>In article <C0Ew01.Gx5@well.sf.ca.us> casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton) writes:
->
->Let me give you some advice re SF Chronicle/Examiner and their billing
->(from someone who would always rather fight than give in):  You can't
->fight them.  Do what they say.  Cancel the paper.  Pay the bill.
->Absolutely nothing else will work.  This is my experience and the experience
->of everyone I know.  Give up.

>Just to be contrary, I tried getting the ChronEx for a few months a few
>years ago.  The delivery was, to say the least, spotty (I think I maybe
>recieved 30% of my papers).  I wrote them a letter telling them I wouldn't
>pay.  They wrote back telling me I had to pay.  I wrote them another letter
>telling them if they didn't stop asking me to pay, I'd sue, contact the
>Attorney General, blah, blah, blah.  I then proceeded to throw out anything
>with a ChronEx return address on it.

>No ill effects (yet).  Your mileage may vary.

Geez, I do the same type of thing when my car's transmission starts making 
strange sounds.  I just turn up the radio and it goes away!  It's saved me
big time $$$  ;)

>Jon

>P.s. The service really is HORRIBLE, isn't it.  Not to mention that the
>papers aren't very good.  Bleah.

>Jonathan Levine
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Subject: Re: DISPUTE OVER A BILL WITH SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER!
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