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Subject: Re: $99 Quattro offer
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Date: 3 Sep 90 00:30:12 GMT
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In article <366@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) writes:
>I got one of these offers about a month ago, and sent in my order for it.
>...
>But I have gotten three more copies of the offer, all in the last 72 hours.
>...
>The other thing that I found a bit silly is that Borland has pre-coded them
>all with *my* name and address.  I assume they know that their saturation
>mailing is likely to produce duplicates.  Perhaps they don't realize that
>there is also a good chance that some people who qualify for their offer
>will not be on any of the mailiing lists they're using.  If the order forms
>weren't pre-coded, I could pass them along to qualified friends who didn't
>happen to get one, but since they are I guess all I can do is throw them
>out.
>                                              Dave

I think you can order them for your friends, and then just let them send
in the registration card themselves.  If this is like at least one other
Borland offer I have seen, the software comes as a complete package as if
you had bought it at a store, with nothing to identify it differently.
Your (qualified*) friends can just fill out the registration and send it
in themselves.

(* I don't know if Borland considers 'qualified' to mean only previous
customers, or anyone with $99.)

By the way, I have gotten two of their mailings with other people's
certificates inside the envelopes (I forwarded them).

Carl Cotner
cotner@math.berkeley.edu