I received the Grassroots invoice and sent it back indicating no
payment was coming. This is
a fairly common trick these people play - they pretend to give you
something for free and then bill
you for it later. Whatever goodwill they accumulated by sending out the
"free" issue has been
lost.
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I got my invoice yesterday and I just wadded it up and made a nice three
point
shot into the basket.
TigerCoupe@aol.com wrote:
> On 01-Feb-2000 at 19:52:52PST GRMMail@aol.com wrote:
>
> >Subject: Tom Patton's Runoffs Winning Tiger.
>
> >Tom Patton's Tiger will be featured in this month's issue of
Grassroots
> >Motorsports Magazine. A free sample of the magazine can be had by
emailing
> >me or calling (904) 673-4148.
>
> >Per
>
> >GRM
>
> A month or so ago I responded via Email to the above offer sent to the
> Sunbeam Tiger information group. Eventually I did receive my free
issue,
> which I enjoyed.
>
> Today, May 18, 2000, I received a "Subscription Invoice" for $17.95
from
> Grassroots Motorsports which "Includes all account activity through:
May 4
> 00." I was surprised to learn that this was Notice # 101000504$SOFT,
that my
> account # was 49522, and my order # was 87323.
>
> The invoice was accompanied by a letter from the publisher, which read
in
> part:
> "Thank you for your subscription order. By now you should have gotten
your
> first issue of GRASSROOTS MOTORSPORTS -- if not, it will be along
> shortly.........If you have already sent in your payment, we thank you
and
> ask that you please disregard this notice."
>
> This correspondence strikes me as a blatent, backhanded solicitation
which
> borders on unethical. Accordingly, I will disregard it. I hope that
other
> members of the Tiger community have not had an experience similar to
mine!
>
> Dick Barker
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Larry Allbritton
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