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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!ads.com!charleen
- From: charleen@ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna)
- Subject: Re: Prodigy - Don't even think about it!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.212816.13202@ads.com>
- Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News)
- Organization: The Original Estrogen-Crazed Lust Bunnies
- References: <1992Nov02.162920.105086@watson.ibm.com> <100606@bu.edu> <1992Nov4.195917.3497@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:28:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov4.195917.3497@news.acns.nwu.edu> alasnik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Lasnik) writes:
- >
- >I have found the management of America Online (AOL) to be quite insensitive to
- >both new and old customers. I tried out AOL a few years ago, liked much of
- >what I saw, but felt that the offerings were in NO way worth the $6 an hour
- >charge. I became further annoyed when I heard substantiated claims that AOL
- >was charging many different rates to different groups of subscribers AND
- >wasn't even letting their current subscribers in on the deals.
-
- How is this any different from publishers who offer introductory rates
- to snare new subscribers, or from check printing companies who offer
- special low rates on your first order of checks but not subsequent
- ones, or from credit card companies who charge different interest rates
- to different groups of customers?
-
- Seems like a common practice to me.
-
- Charleen
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