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From: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: A Solution to the Shareware Dilemma?
Message-ID: <2792@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 88 14:57:22 GMT
References: <8502@sunybcs.UUCP> <6973@oberon.USC.EDU> <120@hodge.UUCP> <889@ima.ISC.COM> <1422@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA
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Keywords: telemarketing

In article <1422@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>In article <889@ima.ISC.COM> johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) writes:
>>There exist companies with 800 numbers, operators standing by, computer
>>terminals at the ready, all prepared to take your name, address, order, and
>>credit card number....
>> Many of them will even
>>electronically deposit the bank charges in your account.
>
>Well, I daresay I could be wrong, but none of the ones I have talked to will
>charge the credit cards for you and forward you the money.  That's very
>risky.

My wife works for a telemarketing company that also handles incoming calls
for order-taking.  She tells me that it's up to the software company to handle
the credit card end -- they take a customer's account number, then forward the
information to the vendor.  It's up to the vendor to handle credit hassles.

An interesting discussion over another proposed solution -- "ad-ware" -- is
going on in (I think) comp.society.futures.  Check it out.

Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek
	"It's nice to finally see a Reagan appointee going to court as a judge
	instead of a defendant."
					-- Johnny Carson