[TriLUG] Telocity/DirecTVDSL defunct

[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger]

On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 03:51 PM, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>
> While I dislike salesmen that bait and switch as much as the next
> person, I must say, Micheal, that if you didn't read the contract,
> you don't have much to stand on.  Always, always read what you sign
> before you sign it, and if you don't like something, cross it out.
>

You're saying that if a salesman purposely misrepresents what he was 
selling then I have no reason to complain? Some companies treat their 
customers to a game of legal one-upmanship where you have to consult a 
lawyer to buy anything. My response is that's a load of crap, and I'll 
do business with companies that fairly represent what they are selling. 
I'm not saying we should do away with contracts, but when companies 
that purposely lie to their customers it should be advertised far and 
wide so they either change their ways or go out of business. And that 
is what I am doing here, warning the public about what happened.

Earlier this year I spent months working on a deal with Bell South, 
only to have them spring the actual terms on me in the contract, when I 
asked them repeatedly for them to just tell me on the phone so we 
wouldn't waste everyone's time.

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