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- From: weissman@netcom.com (Bob Weissman)
- Subject: Re: pressure those nasty Bay Area cable companies!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.003731.2880@netcom.com>
- Organization: The Ranks of the Unemployed
- References: <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 00:37:31 GMT
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- In <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com> markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden) writes:
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- - South Bay's latest cute trick was to send out notices to *every* customer
- - in Mountain View that their service was about to be cut off for failure
- - to pay. The notices were nicely timed to be received just before the
- - Christmas weekend, with a promise to disconnect Monday if payment had
- - not already been made by Friday. "We just wanted you to have a *merry*
- - Christmas!" The South Bay employee who talked to me assured me that
- - *everyone* got them, including a man who pays a year's worth of fees in
- - advance. He was sent a notice threating to cut his service if he didn't
- - take care of a bill which showed a $100+ credit!
-
- Eh? I'm a South Bay customer in Mountain View, and I did not get one of these.
-
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