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- From: rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Ethics of joining CompuServe to DL B&P
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 14:41:22 GMT
- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Message-ID: <4hk86i$kpq@wn1.sci.kun.nl>
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- In <150692@cup.portal.com> Harv@cup.portal.com (Harv R Laser) writes:
- >A few years later they somehow got wise to how people were using
- >their "snap-paks" and changed their free-hours strategy such that
- >one had to punch in one's credit card number before being able to
- >use those free hours.
-
- It always amazes and annoys me when some companies more or less
- automatically assume that everyone has a credit card. What about
- those who can't or don't want to get a credit card? (Here in Europe
- there are usually pretty high income limits to meet before a bank
- will issue you a credit card). And there are plenty of reasons not
- to *want* a credit card anyway: they cost money and they are
- inherently unsafe. Especially when you type in your credit card
- number and they start to charge you without even a signature.
-
- -Olaf.
- --
- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@mbfys.kun.nl The only excuse
- \X/ for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. -O.W.
-