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- From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
- Subject: Re: ________ Vincent Poy Please reply !!! ____________
- Message-ID: <BxFG4E.HM6@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- References: <1dbhisINNo48@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <p{#@byu.edu> <1992Nov6.145451.24270@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 02:26:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov6.145451.24270@news.uiowa.edu> miranda@topaz.eng.uiowa.edu (Johann Miranda) writes:
-
- >Well, I corresponded with him about a disk drive... He wanted a money order or
- >cshiers check up front. I have yet to buy anything from the net, but I READ THE
- >FAQ. and I found out that **sending the money up front is bad practice**. I
- >figured he might be desperate, but I could wait and see if the disk drives
- >would come down in price. I stopped corresponding with him....
- >And now you guys tell me he was a con man!!. Am I lucky or what?!
-
- I usually pay by personal check in advance. It's a bit safer than money
- order or cashier's check, because the person's name is on it, and I can
- cancel it easily. The only time I was ever cheated, I sent a $16 money order
- (it was for two AD&D books). Nothing showed up... I never did anything,
- because $16 wasn't worth the trouble. (I later heard that the same person
- had swindled at least one other victim.)
-
- I once traded a large carton of equipment and software for a high-speed
- modem. We agreed to ship simultaneously... I began to get worried when the
- thing hadn't arrived after two weeks, and repeatedly mailed the other
- person... however, the problem was that he had been sick, and so I did
- receive what I had paid for. No hard feelings-- I will gladly do business
- with him in the future.
-
- After this Vincent Poy affair, though, I think I'll use COD for all but the
- most trivial amounts. 99% of the people on the net are honest, but the few
- thieves here force us to be careful. I too was planning to buy some SIMMs
- from Poy... fortunately, I saw the warnings in time to avoid getting
- swindled.
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