Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!hplabs!tektronix!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Caution with PC Network Message-ID: <3743@reed.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jun-86 04:19:08 EDT Article-I.D.: reed.3743 Posted: Thu Jun 26 04:19:08 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 26-Jun-86 23:38:49 EDT References: <1516@brl-smoke.ARPA> <386@chinet.UUCP> Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Distribution: na Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Lines: 41 In article <386@chinet.UUCP> magik@chinet.UUCP (Ben Liberman) writes: >[] > Your membership will be renewed automatically. No response is > necessary. ... The membershop fee will be charged to your credit > card. Please clip and mail this post paid card if you do not wish > to renew. > >Is this legal? > >---------------------- >Ben Liberman > >ihnp4!chinet!magik or ihnp4!homebru!magik You bet it is! How do you think the "book of the month club" et al. make money? They all do it, at least all that I've come in contact with. (Yeah, I used to be a member of "The Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Club." Since I didn't have a credit card, they billed me. I told them 3 times I wanted out. Then I just ignored everything they sent me. I'm still waiting for a collection agency...). A friend of mine figured out how to get these groups to pay attention when they won't quite...he took one of there "no stamp neccessary" cards, taped it to a brick and mailed it. Needless to say, they stopped. I wrote "deceased" three times on the record club thingies they sent me. I hear a somewhat more legal way to get rid of them is to write a letter informing them your are no longer going to be a member and will not pay for any merchandise they send from now on, have two copies made of the letter, have them noterized, and send them a copy. From then on, anything they send you, you can keep. Sorry about the grammer, I just spent 4 hours in a lab over a breadboard. I'm sorta punchy :-) ________________________________________________________________________________ Sean Kamath UUCP {ihnp4,decvax,ucbcad,hplabs}!tektronix!reed!kamath US Snail: Box 395 Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 (503) 239-7458