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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland C++ 2.0
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.194056.17490@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 19:40:56 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.041246.15904@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <24216@netcom.COM> <16740@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <26972@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <26972@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>Here is something interesting:
>
>I called Borland about the upgrade, and the guy asked me for my certificate
>number for the upgrade (if you have the registered product you WILL get a
>certificate in the mail)...I gave it to him, and he had my name and
>address.  Fine.  However, he did NOT have what product I had purchased!  He
>asked me specifically whethere I wished to upgrade from TC++ or TC++ Pro.
>Well, I have the Turbo Tools but I just purchased them last week and didn't
>send in the registration card yet, and thus I told him I had TC++ Pro (I
>wasn't really lying).
>
>He said okay, the upgrade is 99 dollars.
>
>That saved me 50 dollars.  Now, I believe everything I did was legal, but
>what intrigues me is the fact that they took my word on it.  They know
>where I live but they DON'T know what I own?!
>
>Interesting....

I sent in my upgrade certificate. It had 2 boxes to check. One is an upgrade
from TC++ for $149.95, and the other from TC++ Pro for $99.95. Why they even
bother to offer the $149 one is beyond me. Oh, yeah sure, I will pay $50 more
:-).

I guess they just take your word for it.

I recently got an offer to get W4W at a discount price if you own some other
competing word processor. All they want is your signature stating that you
currently own one of the mentioned packages. No proof or anything.

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