Re: Help!!

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Re: Help!!

Best way to go about it is to mail bomb them, but if you want to do
something legal, attempt to contact parents at that address.  That's what I
did when I got screwed out of 20 bucks, didn't work, though, so I called
his local police and they assisted me in the recovery.  Little bastard.  If
he wasn't all the way in canada I'd have kicked his ass.

At 01:37 AM 9/19/97 -0700, Jerome wrote:
>Steve Leonard wrote:
>>
>> TIer's
>>     I need your help. One of our comrades was looking to purchase a
TI-92. I
>> had a 92, being a poor engineering student, the 86 fits my requirements
>> better.
>>     So in good faith I mailed my Ti-92, manual, and graph-link cable to
this
>> party, with promises of payment on delivery.  I sent the calculator over 3
>> weeks-ago, registered US mail. They signed for it, I have mail return
card in
>> my possession as proof that they received it.
>>     Here I sit, F**ked out of the $100+shipping that they promised to
send. I
>> have four e-mail from them saying the check is in the mail. 3-weeks and
>> nothing!
>>    Since I'm a out $110 bucks (+shipping), the only satisfaction I can
get it
>> that knowing maybe you can flame the hell out of them for me.
>>    The guilty party's email is:   Annie <chloewin@ultranet.com>
>>    Snail mail is:     Andrew Stanley
>>                          31 Grove Street
>>                          Hopkinton, M.A. 01741-1803
>>
>>   I should have sent it COD, but I hoped honesty still prevailed, I was
>> wrong, God help us all.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Steve Leonard
>>
>> University of Buffalo
>        First of all, let's make sure you've been swindled...  Second, I'd be
>glad to help you make this person's life a living hell if you actually
>have been swindled.  Consider the facts: they did give you the right
>"snail mail" address, there are 436 users for calc ti, and a good bunch
>of 'em are probably dying to think of creative ways to sock it to these
>creeps.  Let's give'm the benefit of the doubt for about 1-2 more
>weeks.  If you still receive nothing, then I'd say they'd be in for hell
>every time they think about opening any envelope, box, or package.
>Hell, they might even subscribe to a few HUNDRED magazines without
>knowing it!
>        What do you think?
>
>--
>Jerome Hanson
>jhanson@csci.csusb.edu
>Blackster@juno.com
>  http://web.csusb.edu/public/csci/jhanson
>
>
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Evil Jim
Viva La Mexico
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http://members.tripod.com/~eviljim/
I want to die in my sleep like my Grandfather, not screaming in pain like
the passengers in my car...
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