Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: irvin@northstar105.dartmouth.edu (Tim Irvin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Did MCI Give me $20? Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 91 00:49:14 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: irvin@northstar.dartmouth.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 33 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 225, Message 11 of 12 TELECOM Moderator writes: > [1] The Credit Card Protection > people -- likewise a scam perpetrated on innocent consumers -- can sue > you to recover their money if they like. [2] They probably won't, but in > any event, you are now listed as a mail order deadbeat with at least a > few companies. [3] I hope you got something nice with the $40 you made in > the process. PAT 1. I hope they can find me, I've moved three times since then. 2. Is being listed as a "mail order deadbeat" supposed to be a bad thing??? Anything that will keep the staedy stream of junk-mail outta my house would be great, and it may save a few trees in the process. Actually, I don't think this ever happened, since my steady stream of junk mail never let up. 3. Since I was in college at the time, probably a few meals, or maybe I used it to pay my phone bill. Tim Irvin [Moderator's Note: Some people *like* getting advertising offers through the mail. They find it less pressuring to read the message at their leisure instead of listening to a sales pitch on the phone. And there are mail order houses which ship on open account credit, believe it or not ... no requirement for advance credit card billing or check with order. Of course, not if you're listed with one of the clearing houses they use as a person who engages in petty ripoffs through the mail. PAT]