Your taking this TOO far out of context. All I am saying is, that if
Cellular One for example sent a letter to a Verizon wireless client, saying
"Call Cellular One Today to see how much you can be saving!" then that is
not illegal. Yes, their are probably some consumers that might not take
account that, IF they have that number published on business cards they
would have to re-place those cards and any other documents that the number
MIGHT be published on and switch. But that is the consumers fault for not
considering that. I whole heartedly agree with everyone in regards to it is
not a "Good" practice to send these letters, but this one from "DNR" is not
as far of a scam as all the others.
Lets start over... Let's say you owned a restaurant, and you already had
a supplier for your fountain drink cups. You are currently paying 2 cents a
cup and you get a letter from a company/supplier saying we can provide to
you cups for 1.5 cents. Is that illegal for that company to approach you and
attempt to get you to buy their cups for 1.5 cents?
What if a domain registration company just sent a simple letter out with
no expirations etc, and no domain names even. And it just simply said,
"Domain Registrations for as low as $15 a year. Would that be against the
law? I know all of these letters are starting out "Very Deceptive" but I see
them slowly getting less deceptive.
Don't get me wrong, we are not engaging any of these practices. (We
couldn't even see how profits would raise when you look at the cost of
supplies, man hours and postage are paid!) But, I am just concerned that
people may be throwing a few of these letters "WAY" out of proportion. I
have sent the letter that we received to DomainScams.Com for your review,
and it has a couple lines that shouldn't be their, but not nearly as many as
the Veri guys letters....
But, I am going to leave the issue be as I am sure a lot of people are
not interested in the topic but I am curious of other opinions if they would
like to discuss it off-list. People seem to wine about topics filling their
mail box up and they don't seem to "Delete" them if they don't like the
subject ;) So if their are any more thoughts, feel free to reply off list.
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Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.4CheapDomains.Net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mike Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: DomainRegistryofAmerica???
> No. I whole-heartedly disagree.
>
> If Cellular One sent you a notice that said:
>
> We understand that your contract for your cell phone number of
918-555-1111
> is about to expire. You must renew your contact by April 1st, or risk
> losing your phone number. Should your current contractual obligation
blah
> blah blah that the average person doesn't understand should lock you out
of
> your contract once it expires, then you'll end up paying higher
> rates. (implied...Order now with us or all your friends will be calling
> someone else, you'll have to get you stationary and business cards
> reprinted and some jerk in San Diego will be getting all of your
> business. Renew now with us or you'll never forgive yourself. )
>
> If they sent something like that... the FCC would be all over them.
>
> Tony
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>
> At 02:16 PM 3/23/02, you wrote:
> >I would be more than happy to send it to you, but if you "Technically"
look
> >at it, it's not a scam unless you feel that credit card transfer offer
and
> >such are scams too? I can't help but feel after reading this letter from
> >them, that it is simply an attempt to get someone else's business, just
like
> >Cellular One Wireless hoping to get Verizon wireless's customer base.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >http://www.4CheapDomains.Net
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Doug Friend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Mike Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 2:43 PM
> >Subject: Re: DomainRegistryofAmerica???
> >
> >
> > > Hi Mike,
> > >
> > > Please forward this to me, and I'll post it on domainscams.com as
well. I
> >had
> > > received one of these from the equivalent outfit in Canada, but didn't
> >keep it.
> > >
> > > If anyone else has similar things they'd like for us to post, please
let
> >me
> > > know. It'd be interesting to get a collection of these for the public
to
> >see.
> > >
> > > We operate as I'm sure the vast majority of OpenSRS resellers do in an
> >ethical
> > > manner, and companies like this (especially the spammers) give our
> >industry a
> > > bad name.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Doug.
> > >
> > > Quoting Mike Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > > > Anyone else been getting customers stating that these guys are
> > > > sending then renewal notices? They are not nearly as deceptive as
the
> > > > Veri guys but they are a bit confused at first as to why they are
> > > > contacting them instead of us contacting them... I even received one
> > > > myself today for one of our domains! I assume they too are getting
this
> > > > mailing info from the who-is directory....
> > > >
> > > > Remember, we have only been involved in domain registrations for
> > > > about 8 months. I know what the Veri guys is doing is completely
wrong,
> > > > but this letter from Domain Registry is not nearly as deceptive.
What is
> > > > OpenSRS's view of Domain Registrys approach? Is this something that
they
> > > > would recommend to stay competitive? If these guys are taking
advantage
> > > > of the who is then should we take advantage of this opportunity and
> > > > level the playing field?
> > > >
> > > > If anyone has not received this letter from them and would like
to
> > > > see it, please let me know as I will scan it and post it for a short
> > > > term on our server to be viewed... Things are changing in the
> > > > registration world at massive rates and we are simply trying to
figure
> > > > out a way to increase sales but yet withhold proper ethics...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > http://www.4CheapDomains.Net
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> 918-495-1212
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.DreamStarGroup.com
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