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- From: orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Subject: Re: DCF/2 When?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.065822.9918@weyrich.UUCP>
- Sender: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
- Reply-To: uunet.uu.net!weyrich!orville
- Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
- References: <1jhv64INNj3q@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 06:58:22 GMT
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- In article <1jhv64INNj3q@hpscit.sc.hp.com> kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin) writes:
- >I got my credit card bill yesterday and noticed that Proportional
- >Software had charged my card on 1/7/93 for DCF/2. I called today to
- >find out why I hadn't got it yet. Their answer was that they had
- >such a backlog of orders that they started charging the cards early.
- >They also said that I should get the product by the end of the month.
- >I told them this was not satisfactory. They offered to credit the
- >amount back and the card and recharge it when shipped. I don't if
- >this is considered a legitimate practice (charging more than a few
- >days ahead of shipment, especially when you know you can't ship in
- >a few days), but it really should be.
-
- I think that there is a Federal law that governs mail-orders that says
- something to the effect that if an order doesn't ship within 30 days, the
- company has to offer to refund your money within so many more days. I
- don't know if this applies to credit card orders ...
-
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- orville
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