On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 09:00, Alex wrote: > I realize it's seriously inconvenient for you, but it's grossly > unfair for you to take your frustrations out on the vendor. They > agreed to provide a service for a fee; your company hadn't been > paying the fees --- why in hell should they provide the service > til you pay up? It's your management that's been lame here; > direct your anger at them.
I have no anger toward them but they have proven to be incompetent in a number of ways and so would recommend against them if asked for suggestions. That is not anger, rather reflecting experience with doing business with them. They should rightfully suggest to other companies not to do business with my company too given we apperently don't pay our bills! > > Furthermore, even if they weren't legally in the right, do you > really believe tieing the tapes up in litigation would get them > back any faster than just paying the bill? I'm not looking for litigatation, I was hoping that it's known to be illegal. If so I would just call the states attorneys office and have them call the company to inform them such and sure enough the tapes would appear in my hands quickly. - Jim > > ---Alex > > > Hello, > > > > Anyone aware of the legality of an off site data storage vendor > > withholding tapes from a company due to past due bills? In this case > > both parties are in the state of Massachusetts. > > > > My company has "merged" with another and the accounts payable department > > is apperently having more problems doing their job than they usually do. > > However, I need the tapes back asap as my site is closing and must ship > > the tapes to another site ahead of the equipment from which the data was > > backed up. > > > > Any insight is much appreciated. And oh, if you are in the market for a > > data storage vendor, I have one I can suggest you avoid. Have had other > > problems with them prior to this one... > > > > - Jim > --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
