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- From: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby)
- Subject: sleazy Bradmark advertising
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- Message-ID: <2AB64576.5307@news.service.uci.edu>
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- Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, CA
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- Date: 15 Sep 92 20:20:06 GMT
-
- I just received a Bradmark flyer in today's mail, boldly proclaiming on the
- outside:
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- ANNOUNCING GENERIC AND PARTIAL KEY LOOKUP CAPABILITIES...
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- FREE HP3000 SOFTWARE TO ALL IMAGE USERS FROM BRADMARK
-
- FREE!
-
- I opened the flyer, and lo and behold, the fine print explains "A processing
- fee of $135.00 per CPU includes one users manual, tape media plus shipping &
- handling". Doesn't sound very "FREE!" to me. Oh yeah, they also offer one year
- of maintenance for their "FREE!" software for just $300.
-
- Anybody else receive this flyer and care to comment?
-