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Re: USR Sportster 4 Sale

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From: Ron
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00
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Charlie McCann <chasmc@primenet.com> wrote:

>Ron wrote:

>> >The fact is that Primenet turns over confidential/personal customer
>> >information from their data base to Telemarketing Firms to be used for
>> >purposes never intended by their customers.
>> 
>> I did have a question about this above statement in your signature
>> file...
>> 
>> Do you have any actual PROOF that this statement is at all true???

> Yes. The president of GlobalCenter/Primenet said they did.

I don't know if you heard him correctly, so I will relay the story
that I was told, just in case you didn't understand.

The fact is, Primenet contracted an outside company to Poll a random
group of Primenet customers with a Quality Assurance Survey for
Primenet customers only.

They did not try to Sell them anything nor did they try to Market
anything to the customers that they called.  I was further told that
the one and only reason that Primenet went to an outside company for
this Survey was because the sample they wanted was too big to be done
by "in-house" staff.

Primenet did not Sell any information to this company nor will the
company retain this information.

>> I find it hard to believe that a national company with over 50,000
>> customers would stoop to such a low as some of these boiler room
>> companies as to sell name lists to telemarketing firms.

>You're assuming when you use the term "sell name lists."  I don't think
>that's what happened at all. Unfortunately though, the information wound
>up in the mitts of the telemarketing agency nevertheless.

So, in closing, I just wanted to politely ask you, Charlie, to please
in the future choose your words carefully, they may get you into
trouble someday.   I also hope that in the future you learn the whole
story before spreading about missinformation.  It only makes you look
foolish in front of everyone.

>Charlie McCann   
>-- 

Have a pleasant day!!!
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From: rlgilman@primenet.com (Ron)
Subject: Re: USR Sportster 4 Sale
Date: 1997/05/12
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