----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: September 13, 2001 13:32
Subject: [USMA:15250] Donating to help with the tragedy
> Tragedies seem to bring out both the best and worst in people:
> some line up to give blood, others line up to steal. There are
> already reports of scam artists setting up bogus donation web
> sites.
>
> If you want to donate in an easy fashion, just go to Amazon.com
> (www.amazon.com). They are collecting for the Red Cross, and will
> send 100% of the money collected to the Red Cross (they are
> absorbing the credit card fees). So far they have collected
> 80,090 payments totaling $2.7 million.
Sorry to pose this question to the entire forum, but I need
more than one person's answer. I just received an e-mail
from Amazon.com, thanking me for contributing to the
American Red Cross through the Amazon Honor System,
and that my credit card has been charged $100.
Here's the kick. I never went to Amazon to make a
donation through them. In fact, I've already donated
a different amount directly to the Canadian Red Cross
directed to the effort in New York.
It appears that Amazon has charged my card without
even asking me. On top of that, they give a web address
where you can go to request that your money be refunded.
But when you go there it says that they're closed.
Did this happen to anybody else?
Stephen Gallagher
