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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Beagle Scam
Message-ID: <36884@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 30 Nov 89 07:18:37 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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I guess Beagle's in trouble, Mark.  [I address this to Mark Munz because I
know he reads this group and I feel guilty for hitting him in the head with a
Koosh ball at Boston AppleFest]

They're on to you.  Everyone's figured out the scam.

I don't know how Mark Simonsen thought he could get away with it.  Under the
guise of pretending to be generous with older Beagle Utilities while still
maintaining legal and version control, he allows them to be downloaded from
the Beagle Bros. bulletin board, with no profit to Beagle.

He must surely have realized that the savvy populace at large would divine
that Beagle has a secret arrangement with all the long distance companies to
get a percentage of the profits from the calls to pro-beagle, thereby netting
Beagle a cool $1.79 cents (on average) per product as opposed to the much
higher retail price he had previously been getting.

We knew someone couldn't do something nice for us out of the goodness of his
heart; it was only a matter of time before he'd be caught and exposed.

I might suggest that Beagle consider allowing people to mail in blank disks
and a $1 or $2 handling fee to obtain a copy of the software in question
without calling pro-beagle.  I would hope Beagle would adopt such an honorable
solution before this unmitigated fraud upon our sensibilities ruins the
reputation of a fine software company.

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