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From: smisra@eos.ncsu.edu
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Subject: Re: Mail order / BottomLine
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.142409.4187@ncsu.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 91 14:24:09 GMT
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In article <16646@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David
Lee Matuszek) writes:
> In article <$#}&'N^@rpi.edu> Abraxas@itsgw.rpi.edu (Yi Sun) writes:
> >I saw the ad from BottomLine mail-order in Feb issue of MacWorld.
> >They seem to have very low price. For example both apple 13" RGB
> >and seiko 14" RGB are adverised at $545.  However, they charge
> >$2/min on the phone.
> 
> I have had no dealings with them, and plan to keep it that way.  I
> simply do not find it credible that an honest company would charge you
> to talk to their salesmen.  And if something you buy doesn't work, or
> they make an error in shipping, how much time are you going to spend on
> the phone trying to get it straightened out?  And how much incentive
> do they have to get it right in the first place?
> 
> I'm not calling them crooks, because this isn't a crooked business
> practice.  It's a scummy business practice.
> 
> 
> -- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)  I don't speak for my employer. --
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> |   When I was young, my family bought a color TV.  Our neigbors, who   |
> | were poorer, had only a black-and-white set.  They bought a piece of  |
> | cellophane, red on top, yellow in the middle, and blue on the bottom, |
> | and taped it over their screen, so they could claim that they had a   |
> | color TV, too.                                                        |
> |   Now there's Windows 3.0.                                            |
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------


I totally agree with Dave.  You should always be careful of greedy businesses!

Better yet, you should AVOID  greedy businesses, and a business that charges
$2/min just so that you can offer you business to them is very, very GREEDY

Saurabh