Re: Online Scam for PC Routerr -- PCTECH

Credit card companies keep track of their merchants. Merchants with lots of complaints lose their ability to accept credit cards. So, complaining does make a difference.

Jerry Adams wrote:

Hmmm. They also have your credit card number, Shannon. While the bank is required to honor your order to not pay *this* bill, what about the next one? Is there any way to put a permanent block on them? I'm no lawyer (dropped out to make an honest living as a programmer), but would they be liable for credit card (wire) fraud? Would reporting them to the FTC do any good?

One option that I've heard people take is to have the bank issue a new credit card without forwarding the charges from the old one. I've never taken this route, but I know it would be a pain because of the automatic payments that get made against my card (ISP, web site, etc.).
At the least, I would keep an eye on my credit card charges. Probably daily for a month or so. These guys just don't sound like trustworthy types.

Sorry about sounding paranoid, but even paranoids have enemies.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM System i Programmer/Analyst
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B&W Wholesale
office: 615-995-7024
email: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon ODonnell
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:02 AM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Online Scam for PC Routerr

I ended up getting an Aluratek wireless router designed for aircards, from
Amazon. It works great.

The Rat bastards at Cell-Phone-Mall-dot-net have never answered the phone,
nor returned emails nor sent me the product.

They were nice enough to steal my money though so they are not completely
lazy and incompetent. They do know how to process a credit card.

However, the joke's on them as the credit card company is now going after
them for the money and doing whatever it is they do.
In any event, I am no longer out the money.

Hopefully a swarm of locusts will find every one of those crooks at
cellphonemall down there in Miami and take up permanent residence in their
nostrils.

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of sjl
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:01 PM
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Online Scam for PC Routerr

Shannon -

CradlePoint makes the cream of the crop routers for use with broadband cards

and cellular telephones.

I have two different models, the CTR-500 and the MBR-1000. They work great,

allowing up to 16 computers to share the bandwidth.

I also have 12-volt adapters for both of them, thus I have a rolling wireless access point when traveling up and down I-35 - if you were driving next to me and had the router password, you could use my wireless connection

while driving on the freeway...

See:
www.cradlepoint.com

(In stock at Fry's Electronics...)

- sjl

Shannon wrote:
So let me preface this by stating the obvious: I'm an idiot who did not do
the proper research before placing an order online.

I needed a router for my U.S. Cellular Air Card for home use and found what
I thought would be a good product for me at www.cellphonemall.net