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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.travel,net.consumers
Subject: Buying china in London
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Date: Thu, 16-May-85 14:09:14 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 14:09:14 1985
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If you're going to England in the near future, you might be interested:

While visiting London the first week of last October, my wife and I
ordered a full set of dinner china from the Reject China Shop, which
is probably the largest and most respectable discount china outlet in
England.

We were told that delivery usually took 4-6 weeks, but that they were
running a lot closer to 6 weeks at the time, and that since 6 weeks
from then was right in the Christmas mail rush, it might be more like
8 weeks.  So we signed the addendum to the sales contract which read,
"Delivery Delay Accepted".

If you check your calendar, you'll see that it has been over 7 *months*.
After 3 months, we received a partial shipment (approx 15% of the
original order).  Since then we've gotten a number of form letters which
give different explanations for the delay, and now they are saying that
the situation should be straightened out within the next 6 months (!!!).

The bill arrived on our MasterCard, and was paid for, back in November.
At a considerably worse exchange rate than now.  We have lost all
patience, but know of nothing we can do.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{ihnp4,seismo,decvax}!noao!terak!doug
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