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- From: st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: USR DEAL??? Is this valid???
- Date: 10 Jan 1993 21:18 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <C0nuuq.F0I@panix.com>, quix@panix.com (George Papadopoulos) writes...
- > I found the following text capture on a local bulletin board. Can
- >anyone tell me if this is valid or not? Can anyone in the Houston area
- >check up on this company 'USR Digital Marketing'. Selling a $700 modem
- >for $180 is too good to be true. I guess this note is from some Fidonet
- >echo or something. Here's the text....
- >
- >[From ] Philip Gladwin
- >[To ] Dirk Ammala
- >[Date ] 06 Jan 93 16:44:00
- >[Subject ] Re: Modems
- >U.S. ROBOTICS DIGITAL MARKETING CORPORATION ANNOUNCES SALE ON
- >U.S. ROBOTICS 14.4K DUAL STANDARD (HST/V.32) WITH V.32 BIS/V.42
- >BIS AND 14.4K BUILT-IN FAX MACHINE. THIS MODEM, AS A DUAL
- >STANDARD, IS BOTH HAYES COMPATIBLE AND AN HST SIMULTANEOUSLY.
- >THE LOWEST PRICE EVER ON THE NEW MODEM IS $180.00 PLUS $7.00
- >SHIPPING AND HANDLING FOR EACH MODEM. ALLOW 3 TO 4 WEEKS FOR
- >SHIPPING AND HANDLING. BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ARE SAME
- >PRICE. PLEASE SEND PREFERABLY CHECK, CASH, OR MONEY ORDER (TOTAL
- >OF $187.00 PER MODEM) WITH THE FOLLOWING FORM FILLED OUT (PRINT
- >THIS FORM OUT AND EITHER PRINT NEATLY OR TYPE YOUR INFORMATION
-
- A user from my BBS entered this message in one of the TexasNet conferences.
- His name was Luke Rao. I checked his phone number in my user file and it
- was not a valid number. He hasn't called back since, so I haven't been
- able to chat with him about it. I looked for USR Digital Marketing in the
- Houston White Pages, but couldn't find anything. I really don't know
- if this is legit or not, but it sounds like a scam to me.
-