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From fork-admin@xent.com Mon Oct 7 22:40:48 2002
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Mon, 07 Oct 2002 17:10:17 -0400
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From: bitbitch@magnesium.net
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To: John Hall <johnhall@evergo.net>
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Cc: fork@spamassassin.taint.org
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Subject: Re[2]: The absurdities of life.
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 17:10:17 -0400
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JH> They are legally required to do that. I got a similar check because an
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JH> insurance company didn't pay a claim quickly enough. It might have been
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JH> $.02.
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JH> Although they spent lots more than $.33 to mail you the check, the
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JH> alternative seems to be to keep the money. Do you really want companies
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JH> to have a financial incentive to over-bill you 'just a bit' so they
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JH> could keep it? For a company with millions of customers, $.33/customer
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JH> starts adding up.
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Christ, you sound worse than me.
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What I -said- in my post, John, was that instead of having to dole out
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stupid refunds, I'd rather they save the costs incurred, knock off one
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of those bullshit surcharges that they inevitably charge for promoting
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services like these, and move on. SOmething tells me, it'd balance
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out. Problem is, they're silly, they don't want to do this, and
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rather than the legislation coming up with an affective means of
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controlling the situation (overcharging) they impose silly
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requirements like this.
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>> From: fork-admin@xent.com [mailto:fork-admin@xent.com] On Behalf Of
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>> bitbitch@magnesium.net
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>> So I get a check from Pac Bell today (SBC as they're called now).
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>> Turns out, they went to the trouble of printing out, signing, sealing
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>> and stamping a check just to refund me for a whole $0.33.
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>>
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>> They easily spent more than this just getting the materials together.
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>> Why the hell do companies bother to do this crap? I mean, isn't there
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>> a bottom line in terms of cost effectiveness? I don't think I missed
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>> the .33, but I sure as hell would have appreciated lower rates in lieu
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>> of being returned pennies.
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>>
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>> I'm truly stuck on this though. I don't know whether to frame the
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>> check, burn it, or cash it in. Maybe I should find a way to return to
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>> sender, so they have to spend -more- money on giving me my .33 dues.
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>>
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>> Does .33 even buy anything anymore? Funny bit of it, is I couldn't
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>> even make a phone call these days.
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>>
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>> *boggled*
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>> BB.
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>>
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>> --
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>> Best regards,
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>> bitbitch mailto:bitbitch@magnesium.net
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--
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Best regards,
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bitbitch mailto:bitbitch@magnesium.net
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