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From: hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Caution with PC Network
Message-ID: <1740@homxb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 11:35:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 30 11:35:15 1986
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Re: Automatic renewals legality.

Whenever you get a postcard, letter, etc. that says something
like: "If you do not return this by xxxx we will send you,
charge you, etc, you are not bound by it.

Positive action has to be taken for an agreement to be legal.
Otherwise I coukd send you a note saying: If I don't hear
from you by xx, you will have bought a pound of gummi-bears
for $1,000,000.

If you in your orginal membership agreement with PC-Network agreed
to a clause that specified autoamtic renewal, the postcard
would be legal.

If you did not, and they charged your account, it would be theft.

Many book and record clubs use the postcard approach. If you get a
shipment, you are under no obligation to buy it.  You can either
stick it in a mailbox with return to sender, or put it away in
a closet without using it.  If they ask for money, tell them that
you have been storing these packages for them, and charge them
storage fees.

Herman Silbiger ihnp4!batavier!hrs