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Re: MF at etoys.com
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:37:36 GMT
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> Also BTW:
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> Today's USA Today (McPaper, but hey... it's free at this hotel) tells that
> online retailers got fined 1.5M USD by the FTC (including our
> notorious "silent cancel" friends at kbkids.com who were fined 350K USD)
Of course, this fine might have something to do with their "silent
cancels." Maybe it's not as sinister as canceling orders because they
realized the price was too low. Maybe they're just trying to avoid
fiascos like the last holiday season.
This is, of course, little consolation to folks like me whose orders were
canceled...
-Christopher
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| (...) I prolly hit fire too fast on that, sorry, the fines were for not sticking to the "ship within 30 days or crisply notify buyers" rule that the FTC has in place for all [mail/phone/inet]-order companies, and all were a result of the holiday (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| (...) and (...) Which, by the way, is fraud, technically. It's up to you of course whether it's a big enough fraud to not do it. Also BTW: Today's USA Today (McPaper, but hey... it's free at this hotel) tells that online retailers got fined 1.5M USD (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.starwars)
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