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- From: cooper@seismo.CSS.GOV (Dale Cooper)
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- Subject: Re: DISPUTE OVER A BILL WITH SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER!
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:53:11 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.164301.18217@netcom.com> jono@netcom.com (Jonathan Levine) writes:
- >In article <C0Ew01.Gx5@well.sf.ca.us> casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton) writes:
- ->
- ->Let me give you some advice re SF Chronicle/Examiner and their billing
- ->(from someone who would always rather fight than give in): You can't
- ->fight them. Do what they say. Cancel the paper. Pay the bill.
- ->Absolutely nothing else will work. This is my experience and the experience
- ->of everyone I know. Give up.
-
- >Just to be contrary, I tried getting the ChronEx for a few months a few
- >years ago. The delivery was, to say the least, spotty (I think I maybe
- >recieved 30% of my papers). I wrote them a letter telling them I wouldn't
- >pay. They wrote back telling me I had to pay. I wrote them another letter
- >telling them if they didn't stop asking me to pay, I'd sue, contact the
- >Attorney General, blah, blah, blah. I then proceeded to throw out anything
- >with a ChronEx return address on it.
-
- >No ill effects (yet). Your mileage may vary.
-
- Geez, I do the same type of thing when my car's transmission starts making
- strange sounds. I just turn up the radio and it goes away! It's saved me
- big time $$$ ;)
-
- >Jon
-
- >P.s. The service really is HORRIBLE, isn't it. Not to mention that the
- >papers aren't very good. Bleah.
-
- >Jonathan Levine
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