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- From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
- Subject: Re: Fraud by WTS/CES/etc (was Re: DOn't order from BETTER CONCEPTS!!!)
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 04:42:21 -0000
- Organization: University of Strathclyde
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- Benjamin Hutchings <worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
- >They (well, their other operation "Computer Express Supplies") ripped me off
- >#139 for a CD-ROM drive. I ordered an A570 which they said they had "in stock"
- >(unlike the other places I tried - this was December 1994).
-
- A very similar tale of woe in my case for the monitor - more or less at the
- same time, no-one else had it in stock, but WTS did... allegedly.
-
- >It was at this point I went to my
- >solicitor (well, my Dad's solicitor and friend from university actually) and
- >asked him to start writing letters. This was to no avail.
-
- Ah, it's just as well I didn't get the solicitor to do this for me then.
- Pouring good money after bad - at least your solicitors letters (presumably)
- would have been free. A distinct advantage.
-
- >I hadn't heard anything about people going to prison,
-
- Never mind, we can live in hope :-(
-
- >but as far as I can see the cost of going to court
- >is generally too high to consider.
-
- That was my reckoning. In the end I decided just to forget about the whole
- sordid affair.
-
- --
- "I have trouble imagining death at that income level" - White Noise, D.Delillo
-
- Neil Clark, Transparent Telepresence Group
- <http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/>
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