[73304] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Specialty Technical Publishers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Wed Aug 18 22:38:42 2004
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:38:01 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Mike Lewinski" <mike@rockynet.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Mike Lewinski wrote:
> Has anyone else has run into these scumbags? Sometime last
> winter I received a call along the lines of "We'd like to
> send you some materials to review". Well, they sent some
> "Internet Law encyclopedia" along with an invoice for ~$700.
> Of course, there was no cost mentioned in the sales call-
> for all I knew they were going to send me a brochure about
> their product. I can say with 100% certainty that I would
> never have authorized them to send me something like this
> had they mentioned the cost without much further discussion
> as to what I was receiving. This is just a general heads-up
> to a sleazy business practice for a sleazy company that is
> now attempting to extort money.
File a complaint with the BBB of Vancouver, BC. They are known to the
BBB. Then, let their collection goons waste their time and their money,
and tell them that if they want to see it back they have to send you a
prepaid box.
Michel.
