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Re: fraud co.--------BMG Music Service

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From: Xmcmeekin
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:00
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cogman@cyberenet.net (Friend ) wrote:

***Neil (neils@imap1.asu.edu) wrote:
***: On 17 Feb 1997, Tina Shake wrote:
***: 
***: > I have done business with BMG over the last 3 years and have no problems 
***: > what so ever with them. You are allowed one membership per person per 
***: > year so we order all our free c/ds buy our one selection (with by the way 
***: > the postage and handling is around $2.39 per c/d approx! not bad!) and 
***: > then cancell our subsription. Then later we join again under another 
***: > family name.
***: [snip]
***: 
***: In other words, you're lying to a company, and stealing money from them. 
*** 
***There's no reason to join up to BMG under a different name. Nothing in
***their policy states that customers can't quit and than join again. As such,
***there's no reason at all to join BMG under a different name.

   Maybe so, but I tried the quit and rejoin thing once, and I was rejected because I
tried to rejoin too soon after quitting.  The reason they gave was that I had
previously been a member under that name and address.  They invited me to reinstate
my membership but failed to offer the 12 free CDs offer.

Beth
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From: Xmcmeekin@concentric.net
Subject: Re: fraud co.--------BMG Music Service
Date: 1997/02/18
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