=> -----Original Message----- => From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Whil Hentzen (Pro*) => Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:30 => To: [email protected] => Subject: Re: Rick Schummer blogs on Eli's invoice scam... => => > pay you later options. Eventually I found out that my => subscription is => > not only current, it runs until sometime in 2007! So the => whole thing => > is grossly incompetent at best and extremely sleazy at worst. => => Most magazines do that. => => Car & Driver is particularly bad; I'd renewed for a two year => period one December, and the following April I started => getting renewal notices... => => So I take their postage paid envelopes, fill them full of => crap, and mail them back. => => I know a guy who used to work for a paint company. The lab => would use these steel plates, exactly the size of a business => size envelope, for testing paint color samples. I picked up => 50 lbs of these plates and used to send them in the postage => paid envelopes..... => => Now a days, though, the postage paid envelopes are too small. /sigh/ => => I wonder if Eli is so big that they'd not notice if a 'few' => enterprising souls started mailing back their envelopes with => garbage in them. Not that I'm advocating such a deplorable => practice - REALLY - DON'T DO THAT!!! - I'm just pondering => the question for intellectual purposes. => => Whil =>
We all get tons of junk mail and the conventional wisdom is to include a postage-paid response so that the sucker ... er, I mean customer, won't have to go find one and possibly delay (or even cancel) the return. I set up a system of preprinted inserts informing the sender that they will owe me $250 for each piece of mail that they send me. The plan was to put them in the prepaid envelope, instead of an acceptance of the offer. I have not started to actually do this because there is a question of whether it is kosher to use the prepaid envelope for such purposes. HALinNY _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
