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Re: Great Expectations (Dating Service) WARNING!

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From: Howard S Shubs
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 00:00
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In article <43b22b$24e@news.voicenet.com>, ktappe@omni.voicenet.com (Kurt
Tappe) wrote:

>1. They are expensive. The cheapest plan (at least offered to me) was
>$2,250.00 (including the mandatory $250.00 photographer's fee.)
>
>2. I strongly suspect they tailored their pricing to fit my ability to
>pay.  One of their questionnaire queries was for my credit card limits; 
>I balked and did not fill them in.  When the rep. noticed this, he spent
>considerable time cajoling me into believing they did not want them for
>any reason other than to be sure that I wasn't a deadbeat who was just
>screwing around and wasting their time.  Later it turned out that the
>package they pushed on me just happened to be darn near but just under my
>credit card limit.  Coincidence?  I think not. *

I visited the North Dallas office earlier this year.  I got a sales pitch,
and prices which were similar to what you're specifying, but my credit
limit is/was over 3 times yours, so I don't think that's what they were
doing.

With me, as soon as they named their prices, it was all over.  They were
so far out of my price range that there was nothing to discuss.  My
concept was of an absolute maximum ceiling of $500, no more.  There was no
way to talk them down anywhere near that, so I left.

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Howard S Shubs    hshubs@bix.com          Reunite Gondwanaland!
The Denim Adept   hshubs@ultranet.com     
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From: hshubs@denim.ultranet.com (Howard S Shubs)
Subject: Re: Great Expectations (Dating Service) WARNING!
Date: 1995/09/15
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