Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request From: ivgate!Jim.Redelfs@uunet.uu.net (Jim Redelfs) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: MCI's $20 Promotion Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 00:51:35 GMT Article-I.D.: eecs.telecom11.423.6 Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: ivgate!macnet!jim.redelfs@uunet.uu.net Organization: Macnet Omaha Lines: 43 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 423, Message 6 of 13 Rick Anderson wrote: [Regarding MCI's $20 check - the endorsement of which grants them permission to change your PIC (long distance carrier) to MCI] > is it legally feasible to cross out this endorsement message, sign > the check, collect the $20, and then legally expect to not be > switched over to MCI? To which Pat replied: > As soon as you cross out the special endorsement you no longer have > the right to cash the check which was issued as payment for your > having given permission to change your phones. When you withheld your > permission, you had no right to the money. I agree with that, Pat. After I (recently) received my check from MCI, I did some thinking - AND some calling to the US WEST Communications Business Office. I did not see among the promotional literature that accompanied the check anything that indicated a TIME constraint - how long one MUST remain with MCI following the cashing of the check/cutover to MCI. "We" charge $5 (total) to change a customer's long distance carrier. I wonder if MCI will allow THE CUSTOMER to pay that charge (out of the $20 check)? I assume so. So the net value of the check is reduced to $15. After a period of time, the customer could initiate a PIC-change to another carrier, incurring yet another $5 charge by the RBOC. At that point, the net value of MCI's promotion to the end user is a CLEAR, $10! Not a bad deal, really. It just depends on how much value one places on his/ her time - to place the PIC-change order. JR --- Tabby 2.2 MacNet Omaha 402-289-2899 On loan from Mrs MacWidow (1:285/14)