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- From: rohrernl@helix.nih.gov (Nathan Rohrer)
- Subject: Re: Microlab is a rip-off!!! BEWARE!!!
- Message-ID: <rohrernl.39@helix.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
- References: <83386@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Nov12.190214.16874@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Nov12.220835.22224@u.washington.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:35:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.220835.22224@u.washington.edu> tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov12.190214.16874@news2.cis.umn.edu> spicer@sponge.micro.umn.edu (Troy Spicer) writes:
- >>In <83386@ut-emx.uucp> reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali) writes:
- >>
- >>>It's a shot in the dark, but I'm going to call my credit card company and
- >>>the post office to see whether what they did constitutes fraud.
- >>
- >>>--
- >>>Ali R. Vali - reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu
- >>
- >>Go with the credit card company. If you received something you didn't order
- >>(and especially if they refuse to take it back) the credit card company
- >>will credit your account and then do a chargeback to the company, and the
- >>company will have to prove they sent you what you ordered.
- >>
- >>I ordered a mini-tower computer case from them on their insistance that
- >>a full size motherboard would fit in it. (The salesperson was not very
- >>helpful). It didn't. I was able to exchange it though.
- >>
- >>Situations like these are compelling reasons to use ONLY a credit card
- >>with all mail-order transactions.
-
- >As a self-espoused COD orderer I like to follow up to these type posts.
- >Okay, how is it an advantage in this case? If I'd ordered this video
- >card COD this is what would have happened.
-
- >1. Delivery guy arrives.
- >2. I check the contents of the order
- >3. I see that they sent a video card I don't want.
- ^^^
- This only helps if you can tell that it's the card you don't want. What
- if "looks" ok but is still the wrong card? With the credit card you have
- until the next payment due date to make the necessary calls to the company
- to correct a mistake and then call the credit card company if the mail order
- company decides to screw you over.
-
-
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