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From: xerox@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (James Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld's Phony Offers
Keywords: MacWorld Fraud
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Date: 11 Jan 90 00:18:30 GMT
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	I had one of those banzai billing experiences with a now-defunct
computer magazine a couple years back.  I guess the "truth" behind the
advertising was that I was to receive 13 issues, but only be billed for
12.  The funny thing was that I got the bill within 2 weeks of sending
in the card, but didn't get the magazine until 6 weeks after the first
bill.
	I promptly sent back the bill (and another that came 2 weeks later),
telling them I hadn't received my "free issue for examination."  I finally did
get an issue, discovered the
magazine to be a piece of trash, and told them to cancel.  Of course, it
wasn't that easy, and I only stopped hearing them after I had sent back
4 unpaid bills with large "CANCEL"s written across them, and replied to
one letter from their "collection" department, saying I had retained the
services of a lawyer and planned to litigate should they send me one
more bill or correspondence.  Never heard from them again, and my
American Excess card, et al. seem to indicate my credit was not marred
by the incident.
	I never did get my free gift. :-)

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