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From: brucet@hpgrla.UUCP (brucet)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Mon, 14-Jan-85 17:51:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 14 17:51:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpgrla!brucet    Jan 17 14:51:00 1985

Re:  RIPPOFF

	I have not dealt with the company in  question  but I have had a
similar situation happen to me before.  I sent off to a mail order house
for some electronics equipment, got my canceled check, but no equipment.
What I did was  contact  the  local  postmaster  general.  What you have
described  to  me is  mail  fraud.  It  may  not  hurt  to  contact  the
postmaster  general  in the zip code of the  company as well.  When this
happened  to me, the amount in  question  was less than $20.  The $2000
amount you  mentioned  should  interest the post  office.  I received my
refund within 3 days after contacting the postmaster general.

	Another  outlet is to contact the federal trade  commission  for
California.  A  registered  letter  to the  president  of  this  company
stating you have contacted the commission maybe all it takes to get some
action.  You may also call the Better Business Bureau and tell them what
has been  happening  but I have not had much luck getting  action out of
them.  You may use this as another scare tactic as described above.

	If this  doesn't  work, you can always sue.  The trouble is that
the fees for this would exceed the $2000!!

Bruce "GET TOUGH" Thompson   
Hewlett Packard