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Re: Best idea of the week, make that year. Yeah, yeah, I know the year just started
Subject:Re: Best idea of the week, make that year. Yeah, yeah, I know the year just started From:Rachael Lininger <techwhirl -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:33:22 -0600 (GMT-06:00)
"Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
>Maybe this was the most brilliant idea since Ctrl-Alt-Del, but I'm guessing
>that Digibuy was getting so many calls from customers questioning a line
>item on their credit card statements that they had to react to save their
>sanity and lower their costs. Myself, I would have understood from the
>second or third iteration of "This is NOT a BILL." I've been billed by
>Digibuy before, but I knew from the dollar amount (converted from USD) what
>it was for.
>
>Karen Black in Toronto, cynical as all get out
As someone who used to answer those calls, yup, that's it. Exactly. This was a
couple of years ago, before they had the letter.
