Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!agate!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: AppleLink Review Message-ID: <8810261355.aa14726@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 26 Oct 88 18:42:22 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 >Will they send you a bill?? Heck no, they want permission to dip their hands >into your bank account or credit card, in other words, they will not trust >you to pay your bill, but you should trust them to have access to your >assets.. Gee, didn't they ever hear about a dis-honest employee?? I must wonder >if they give all of their vendors open access to their bank accounts, or if >they demand to be sent invoices, check them, and pay them if all is in order? It's a better idea to use a bank credit card than a direct transfer from your checking account. If you using a microcomputer, it's a good idea to have a bank credit card to charge mail order purchases to. You can dispute a bill charged to a credit card account for up to a year later EVEN IF YOU'VE PAID the credit card balance. That right is based on a Federal law. Consumer Reports published the details a year or so ago (better to look it up in your local library than to trust my feeble recall). I have used the clout of a large credit card company to deny payment to mail order vendors until I actually received the ordered software. I got far more satisfactory service in at least once instance than I would have as an individual. You may not always be happy with the quality of services for AppleLink PE, but I doubt you'll have any real disputes over billing --- HOWEVER, on the off chance that there is an error in your bill, it's MUCH easier to get straight answers to questions posed by an organization as large as the one sending the bill than you'll get all by yourself (the bank credit card organizations WILL help you out because there's a statute that makes that a condition of their staying in business). [The Far Side shall return (I hope)] Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) "Close enough for government work" - source unknown (naturally ;-)