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From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A2-central...AUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!
Message-ID: <7529@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 89 23:43:49 GMT
References: <3067@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <34211@apple.Apple.COM> <3137@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <3659@wpi.wpi.edu> <3264@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
Lines: 62
Keywords: Rip-Off!!!!

In article <3264@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> tp@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (thomas.a.pierce) writes:
>
> I wrote..
>
>>>   It's not that I NEED the $4.67 back, but it's the PRINCAPAL of this.  
>>>A2-Central, by printing the 'warranty' quoted above, assured me my money back,
>>>AND THEY COPPED OUT!
>   [...]
>>>Maybe they're counting on me not wanting to go through the hassles... yeah...
>>>Maybe they figure if they rip me off, even if it's only $4.67, and they do the
>>>same to 10 other people, they'll have an extra $46.70!!
> 
>> you did get to keep them, right?
>
>   I'd GLADLY send them back!
>
Wait a minute, you said that you didn't call A2-Central and give them a
chance to correct things because of the cost of the call.  But here you
say that you'd be willing to send back the issues.  Sounds like an idle
claim for the sake of arguement.  Why are you willing to pay postage, but
not long-distance fees?  Do you also have some PRINCIPAL against the
phone company, too?  Or perhaps, do you expect A2-Central to pay for you
to send their issues back to them (that they've already paid to print and
mail to you for an extremely justifiable price)?

>> I'll have to try it...I don't subscribe (*cringe*)
>
>   NO!  You don't have to try it!!  I advise you NOT to!
> 
Why advise that?  A2-Central offers the cheapest way of any magazine to
find out whether or not you like the publication.  If you really want to
check a mag out for FREE, then just go to the local library and read
every issue you like.  I think A2-Central's policy is fair.  Their mag is
certainly not the biggest, but I'm sure it offers something to their
subscribers.  I ordered a few back issues with articles on making a SCSI
drive, but I wasn't impressed enough to order a subscription.  How else
can you find out about a mag if you don't pay a little?

>> Anyway, imagine how much money A2-Central might lose if a cheap SOB
>> somewhere went for a $60 sub, kept all the newletters, then all of a
>> sudden decided that he "didn't like them" and demanded his $60 back.
> 
>   All I ask is my LOUSY $4.xx (I forgot...:-) NOT $60!!  I didn't like them 
>from DAY 1!  The "mony-back garrantee" was the only reason I let it go 2 mo.!
>
I agree that A2-Central should live up to any guarantee that they
promised, but you have to let them know they goofed!  They aren't going
to track you down and send you a corrective check after they audit
themselves, that would cost their satisfied subscribers too much.  You
seem to be free with everyone else's money (making all these posts that
you aren't paying for) when the solution (I believe) is just a phone
call away.

> Tom Pierce         | These opinions don't represent anyone at AT&T (but me!)|
>
>> Dave Seah (dseah@wpi.wpi.edu)

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