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From: bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix orders
Message-ID: <90@winfree.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 15:56:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: winfree.90
Posted: Fri Sep 11 15:56:28 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 06:40:09 EDT
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Reply-To: bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee)
Organization: Bdale's Berkeley Box, Colorado Springs
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I had a similar, less excruciating but still annoying, experience with
PH.  I had a friend at MIT send me the book when it first came out, so
had no problems there.  But when I mailed in the card from the book
with a check for my $79.95 or whatever it was, I got back a set of disks,
and a bill for sales tax!  NOWHERE on the card did it imply that sales
tax was not included in the purchase price.  I don't mind paying sales
taxes, but I do mind being harrassed for several months by PH for not
sending them a check for the dollar and some cents they said I owed them!

Andy, if they reprint the book, have them change the response card to
include some line about "please add appropriate sales tax for your area"
if they are going to insist on collecting it.

I finally sent them a check, but not until I was sure they'd spent far
more than the dollar and some cents mailing me notices!
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