Re: Online Scam for PC Routerr

Also, each time you dispute a charge, the merchant gets charged $20-25.
Regardless of if the merchant is correct/innocent.

Bottom line? The bank NEVER Gets screwed. And the consumer doesn't get
screwed. So that only leaves, you guessed it, the merchant!

Bob Crothers
www.BJsBariatrics.Com
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“The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
- Michelangelo


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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

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