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From: kadie@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: PC's Limited - Buyer Protection
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Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 16:22:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Apr 25 16:22:00 1987
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie    Apr 25 15:22:00 1987


The back of my credit card statement seems to contradict this advice.

> Mr. Briggs could have easily recovered his money if only he had placed the
> original purchase with a major credit card.  Federal law allows the remedy
> of debt removal for unsatisfactory merchandise if a credit card is used and
> the purchase is made from a firm 100 or more miles away from your residence
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> (or place of business).  I had to used this once on mail order software that
> I felt failed to function as advertised and where a refund was refused.
> I recommend that all mail order purchases be conducted via credit card trans-
> action in order to give the consumer full legal recourse... (I also use this
> for all software purchases do to the lack of warentee inherent in their
> quasi-legal license aggreements)!

Here's what the back of my Visa statement says:

		   "Special Rule for Credit Card Purchases

If you have a problem with the quality of goods or services that you purchesed
with a crdit card, and you have tried in good faith to correct the problem with
the merchant, you may not have to pay the remaining amount due on the goods
or services. You have this protection only when the purchase price was more
than $50 and the purchase was made in you home state or within 100 miles of
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your mailing address. (If we own or operate the merchant, or if we mailed you
the advertisement for the property or services, all purchases or covered regard-
less of amount or location of purchase.)"


Are there two different rules? One for >100 miles and one for <100?



Carl Kadie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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