Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: M.C.S. Mail order -- Nightmare Message-ID: <1990Jun1.103955.2360@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 1 Jun 90 10:39:55 GMT References: <1990May19.034453.6789@altitude.CAM.ORG> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 29 In article <1990May19.034453.6789@altitude.CAM.ORG> theberge@altitude.CAM.ORG (Andre Theberge) writes: > > I would like to share with you my nightmare with an American mail-order >company, selling Amiga products. The company's name is M.C.S., they are located >at 12868 Farmington Rd., in Michigan and they have one-page ads in many Amiga >magazines. For those of you looking to do business with this company, better >read on... [rest omitted] Those folks are in _gross_ violation of the law. Contact any US Post Office Postmaster [ Postmaster City State Zip], probably best the one in the town where they do business, with a description of the problem, and ask for help in contacting the US Postal Inspector's Office. The US Postal Service is _death_ on mail fraud, and if you can document your claims (photocopies, cancelled checks, phone logs), you will have your money back or somebody will be in jail. The Post Office considers this a personal affront to the dignity of the whole system, and they advertise widely to ask you to come to them for help in situations like this. Also, complaining on the net loud and often helps. Some friends and I helped put one sleazeball outfit out of business by letting the net help us spread the word. Likewise, mail a copy of your complaint to the magazines where these slime advertise; magazines do _not_ like to carry ads from firms who commit postal fraud; perhaps the magazines share liability, I don't know. Kent, the man from xanth, postal employee's brat. inspector