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From: dc@gcm (Dave Caswell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.config
Subject: Re: Mail Order war stories?
Keywords: mail order mailorder purchase
Message-ID: <566@white.gcm>
Date: 25 Aug 88 23:01:56 GMT
References: <6766@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: dc@white.UUCP (Dave Caswell)
Organization: Greenwich Capital Markets, Greenwich, CT
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In article <6766@megaron.arizona.edu> cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery) writes:
.
.An amazing number of people wrote me to request the embarrassing details
.of the transaction.  This leads me to ask whether there is (or should be)
>a newsgroup for the purpose of sharing information about which of the
.large number of mail order houses are mistreating their customers.
.
.So, is there such a group?  Is there *any demand* for such a group?
.Shall we form alt.mailorder.scum?  [Feel free to suggest a better name]
.Comments (and email) are welcome.

I don't think it would be fair to have a group where only one side
of the story would be told.  Most mail-order companies don't have 
access to USENET.  One advantage of writing to a computer magazine
is that they will probably print the complaint with a comment from
the mail-order company.


-- 
Dave Caswell
Greenwich Capital Markets                             uunet!philabs!gcm!dc