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Re: Beware telephone software solicitors

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From: Jeff Freeman
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:00
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In article <4g0ens$i2d@maureen.teleport.com> clinto@teleport.com (Clinton Wittstruck) writes:
>I got a call last night, from someone who said they were offering me a
>free trial of various kinds of educational, games and desktop publishing
>software. He says if I didn't like the software, I could keep it at no
>cost. He said all he needed was my address and credit card number and
>expiration date. 

No idea if this is the same deal as a customer of mine told me this 
morning....Seems they sell you a disk for 14.95 and if you don't call back to 
stop them they then charge club dues of 49.95<they didn't mention this to him 
when they called him initially>. He wasn't too happy with the deal. Although 
this company was semi legit in that he'd purchased SW from them earlier which 
was how they got his name. Seems he won't be filling out any more registration 
cards giving away his name/phone #.

One thing he did do was request their name/phone/etc and checked to see that 
such a company existed and then called to see that the person who called 
actually worked for that company...all that and still slipped in the "club 
dues" on him.


Jeff

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From: jfreeman@porch.com (Jeff Freeman)
Subject: Re: Beware telephone software solicitors
Date: 1996/02/15
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