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From: andrew@hammer.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Carbon copies and Chevron
Message-ID: <1792@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 16:43:43 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 16:43:43 1986
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	"I was told that the latest Chevron charge slips had only two
	paper parts -- the customer copy and the company copy.  The
	carbon, I was informed, was to be kept by the dealer as his own
	record, in place of a third paper part.  Hence, if I had taken
	and destroyed the carbon, the dealer would have been left with
	no record of the transaction.

	"I stated, in the strongest possible terms I could muster and
	still remain civil, that in this time of increased consumer
	awareness about the potential for abuse of charge-slip carbons,
	I felt Chevron's new charge slips were a massively ill-advised
	public relations measure and would inevitably reflect badly on
	both Chevron and its dealers."

Your outrage seems misplaced.

Garden variety forms have three parts and two carbons.  One part goes
to you, one part goes to the bank for reimbursement, and one part goes
into the merchant's file.  [As a mail-order merchant, I have merchant
copies dating back to 1981.]  The carbons get discarded and may be
retrieved by a thief, and herein lies the concern.

As you explain it, Chevron forms have three parts, one of which happens
to be the carbon.  Nothing gets thrown away.  What difference does it
make whether the merchant's file copy is black-on-white or
white-on-black?  Where is the potential for abuse?

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]