Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: kaufman@neon.stanford.edu (Marc T. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Did MCI Give me $20? Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 91 07:14:16 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 27 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 208, Message 8 of 14 In article irvin@northstar.dartmouth. edu writes: > In TELECOM Digest V11 #203, Barton F. Bruce writes: -> I have in front of me a check from MCI for $20. If I were to simply -> sign it, I would also be signing a permission slip for them to BE my -> default carrier. > [Moderator's Note: The legal issue is, very simply that they did NOT > -- contrary to your assertion -- send you 'something of value > unsolicited in the mail which you are free to keep'. Unsolicited, yes. ... > you to recover their money if they like. They probably won't, but in > any event, you are now listed as a mail order deadbeat with at least a > few companies. I hope you got something nice with the $40 you made in > the process. PAT] If being listed as a mail order deadbeat means I get a lot less mail from mall order companies ... then send me those checks! (And I thought it would cost ME money to get off the lists)! I'll take my chances on being sued for fraud. In most states, $5 or $10 is well below the limit at which you can be sued in Superior court, and it costs more than that to file for Small Claims court. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)