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Article #27Re: Beware telephone software solicitors
From: Jeff Freeman
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 00:00
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 Jeff Freeman 1-800-GO-PORCH Toll-Free VISA/Mastercard Front Porch Computers 1-706-695-1888 <voice> AMEX/Diners Club HW/SW/Electronics/Bus.equipt.Toll free Order/Support lines in 24 countries! We handle over 35,000 computer/business related items! We ship Worldwide!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110e98,b52b2f623802552 X-Google-Attributes: gid110e98,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,b52b2f623802552 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 106595,b52b2f623802552 X-Google-Attributes: gid106595,public X-Google-Thread: 10f261,b52b2f623802552 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f261,public X-Google-Thread: 11474a,b52b2f623802552 X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: fc3d9,b52b2f623802552 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d9,public From: jfreeman@porch.com (Jeff Freeman) Subject: Re: Beware telephone software solicitors Date: 1996/02/15 Message-ID: <jfreeman.2491.0BF82857@porch.com> X-Deja-AN: 139577847 references: <4g0ens$i2d@maureen.teleport.com> organization: Front Porch Computers newsgroups: pdx.consumer,alt.consumers.experiences,ba.consumers,misc.consumers,pnet.consumer.talk,relcom.consumers