Heads up - reply to the poster as well as the list, he's not (yet) subscribed.
> Dear All, > > I am not sure if this is the right place to send this, but I thought it > important that you were notified of a company that charges a lot more than > the postage and packaging for Open Office. > > I signed up with CD Earth from their website to order a pack of 4 CD's (all > open source software) at a stated price of $5.95 for the pack. The company > sent these through to me, although they did not say so on the site the > software was open-source (indeed they made it seem as if it was all > commercial software). The company then billed an extra $23.99 for no > apparent reason (I found our later that the CDs were $5.95 each, again not > displayed on their website. They then sent me four more CDs (unasked for) > which they were going to charge me $14.99 for each CD). I have endless > trouble cancelling this and as they have my credit card number they have > the upper-hand. > > Just to let you know. > > The company is CD Earth at www.cdearth.com > > I think this exploitation of open source software is shameful. > > Chris May > Utter Press > Ireland -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/
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