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- >I pre-ordered Newtons law back in AUG and so far I have not receive
- >anything but a $200 cancelled check. I have tried to contact the
- >company, Cybernetica, numerious times. All I get is a answering machine
- >saying that they are experiencing phone problems, the same phone problems
- >for the last 4 months. If Cybernetica ever brings anything to market I
- >would strongly recommend against doing busisness with their company!
- >
- >
- >Randy
- >randy@inc.net
-
- Apparently, they took the money and ran. There's a fellow on Portal
- who, in our nightly chats, has told us of going thru the same thing
- you did, except he took his hunt further, to the Santa Barbara CA
- District Atty's office. Found out that Cybernetica's office was
- closed, that none of the 3 or 4 guys who made up the company could
- be located anywhere. Quite a scam they pulled. If you ever see
- your $200 again you'll be lucky.
-
- My suggestion:
- 1. Don't ever pre-order any product that you don't know for a fact
- is shipping yet.
-
- 2. If you ignore #1, then use a credit card so you have some fair
- chance to get the money back if the co. vanishes.
-
- This is not the first time the Amiga community has been screwed like
- this.
-
- Friend of mine paid in advance at a company's booth at the last
- WOCA show in Pasadena (Fall of '93) for a $250 software product
- that "wasn't quite shipping yet but we're taking pre-orders."
- SIX MONTHS LATER he still didn't have delivery of it. Luckily
- he used a credit card and managed to get a full credit. All the
- time, that co. had merrily been running ads in the usual mags for
- the same product.
-
- Please remember, folks, anyone with a paint program can make a very sexy lookin
- g
- product ad for a product that doesn't exist. Before you throw money
- at a new product, make sure it's actually shipping and/or that someone
- you know/trust is in possession of it. There ARE a lot of small
- software companies out there who are honest, reputable, and deliver
- what they advertise. Unfortunately there are also a lot of them who
- are scam artists. It pays to investigate and be careful.
-
- Harv
- harv@cup.portal.com
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