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From: ben@pnet01.cts.com (Ben Decker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RE: Buying via "Net-Order"
Message-ID: <3415@crash.cts.com>
Date: 6 Jul 90 01:56:03 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA
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The solution is simple too help prevent all parties from being burned:

        1) The item is sent COD for cash only.

        2) A note saying it's ok to have the recipient look at the merchandise
is attached to the COD tag.

        3) All parties are happy!

By the way, this applies to UPS. I don't know how the post office deals with
this.

Of course, this doesn't prevent hardware / software from not working, but at
least the recipient has a pretty good handle on the condition of the items. As
for my own experience, I once received an incredibly outdated compiler which
was useless, but considering the other goo deals, I don't mind chaulking this
one up to a loss.

                                -Ben

"Who needs disclaimers? I work for myself :) "

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