cancel the account
Gold's Gym in Oxnard, California won't stop billing Molly's brother for membership, even though both he and his mother have repeatedly sent the gym copies of his deployment orders to Afghanistan. Two months later, the gym claims that it has "misplaced" the deployment orders, and is still billing for services Molly's brother can't use.
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scalping
Quick, go buy scalped
tickets while it's still illegal to sell them for more than $2 over face value. The
New York law allowing unlimited markups on scalped tickets expired last week, and Governor
David Paterson has yet to sign an extension bill passed by the legislature. TicketsNow and StubHub are, of course, ignoring
the law, because they've never been big fans of little things like laws or decency.
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the law
A well-respected lawyer has a simple message for corporations: stop suing disgruntled customers who start websites to air their grievances. Though William Pecau of Steptoe & Johnson thinks that online gripers are "self-righteous narcissists with time on their hands," he also realizes that "shutting down a gripe site generally is not easy, often cannot be done, and often is counterproductive." Pecau goes on to explain exactly why most online gripers are safe from over-hyped
takedown notices...
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