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- Path: csd.uwo.ca!magundi
- From: magundi@csd.uwo.ca (John MacDonald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,tor.forsale,biz.marketplace.computers.other,biz.marketplace.computers.discussion
- Subject: Re: Dealing Safely
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 23:18:24 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ont. Canada
- Message-ID: <4fohs0$2va@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>
- References: <935.6611T1153T2407@idirect.com> <Pine.SGI.3.91.960209163546.28463A-100000@server01.ilap.com> <4fo7ld$584@steel.interlog.com>
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- In article <4fo7ld$584@steel.interlog.com>,
- jasonb <jasonb@gold.interlog.com> wrote:
- >
- >>Get a number at the person's work place. Call it.
- >>I will not deal with a person that I can't contact at work.
- >>I have never had the slightest problem with someone that I could
- >>contact at a real workplace. ( as opposed to home office ) If
- >>they are stable enough to have a real job, they are probably not
- >>going to risk it to rip you off.
- >>
- >> ... a real workplace. (as opposed to home office ) ...
- >
- >Tarring with a pretty wide brush aren't we?! Are all self-employed
- >people criminal in nature because they work out of the home?
- >Sufficiently unstable that they have do all of their own advertising,
- >training and accounting?
- >
- >I can sympathize that you got burned on this deal. The employment and
- >tax status of the person responsible has no bearing in this matter what
- >so ever. Don't assume anyone who has a different daytime phone number
- >and a receptionist is a automatically a legitimate operator (or more
- >"stable" for that matter).
-
- All three times that I have been ripped off, people have been in
- this category.
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- Four times in the last couple months I have had people try to scam
- me and all fell in this category.
-
- What I probably should have said is.
- IF they can't provide references, little or no net presence
- ( www.dejanews.com ) and don't have a job where they can be reached
- at by phone.
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- Still a wide brush, but then it is your money that you risk to lose.
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- john
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