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Netflix is having all these problems because they use Cogent, the cut-rate morons of the transit world...

This has happened hundreds of times, long before they carried Netflix streaming video:

http://www.pcworld.com/article...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

https://secure.dslreports.com/...

http://www.complaints.com/2008...

http://publicpolicy.verizon.co...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news...

http://www.fiercetelecom.com/s...

https://www.datacenterknowledg...

etc., etc.

Telling the true story and being trolled for it, on a forum like this really is the only way I can think of to do ANYTHING about this BS.

Then you are not being creative enough. Here is a much better place to complain about it. Basically, all TV providers will give you trouble. Just do what I do and stop watching TV. :)

>many companies (Lowes, Fred Meyer)

Recently, Fred Meyer was *still* selling Lights of America bulbs. Research what you're getting before you install it. I hope Lights of America has improved since the last time I bought any, at which time I saw one premature failure after another sometimes accompanied by alarming smoke output. More Lights of America comments.

I see lots of people saying things like, "He deserves it and death!" but no one bothering to report exactly what ibackups.net actually did. According to this, the guy was selling "backup coppies" of software that people claimed they already owned. The business model, presumably, was made to fill the very real service gap in commercial software for people who manage to lose their original distribution media. As far as M$ and many other companies, people like that are out of luck and have to buy the software all over again. This happens much more often than you would think. Unlike MP3.com, it was not possible to check if the customer had a copy by asking them to insert it though he could have asked for product activation keys. In any case, this guy was not simply pressing CDs and selling them, he depended on the honesty of his customers.

It's no surprise that this guy got slapped down after the demise of MP3.com's similar backup scheme.

I don't really understand the vindictiveness of the responses. Once again, using free software avoids all of this monkey business. Why give money to people who throw people in jail for trying to help you? It's not like the guy actually hurt anything but the bottom line of some of the country's most wealthy companies. Seeing as those companies are still doing just fine selling software to complete suckers, I don't see where this person hurt anyone. Financial ruin should be punishment enough. I don't want my government wasting law enforcement resources on nonsense like this.

He will pay for the rocket with stolen money. I was charged in november by Amazon for a book I did not order and it was shipped overnight $27 charge overall for a 10.95 book. I found it came thru my Amazon store which I had setup just a few weeks before. I called and spoke with someone who said no problem to refunding my money but I would have to pay the shipping since it wasn't their fault. It was a good thing this guy was at the end of a phoneline... I had to inundate their email boxes - any email link, after getting no reply from their regular customer service email but after 5 weeks I did get a full refund. Google: Amazon credit card fraud. This link is similiar to what happen to me. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14782168 Click on link there http://www.complaints.com/directory/2004/december/ 21/18.htm I was lucky because others are still waiting for their refund. I guess they weren't as mad as I was. I kept saying in my emails that they committed credit card fraud, which they did.

I have done "internet shopping" for a long time now and would reccommend it to anyone, as long as they are smart about it. I have only once run into an internet merchant that is purposely trying to defraud people, and it isn't even credit card fraud. It's rare and you would have to be damn stupid to try and pull credit card fraud these days. It is so tightly watched and so easy for consumers to fight back against blatent credit card fraud (obtaining a CC number and then charging to it without consent or transfer of goods / services)

The one place that I HAVE run into, and I'm picking on them because they are the ONLY place that has done anything this bad, is http://www.wawadigital.net./ I ordered a Minolta Dimage Z2 from them because they showed the price in their store as and I quote "$188 after $50 mail in rebate". This was a great price because most other stores were doing $219 or $229 after rebate. I decided to give it a shot and ordered the camera. Strangely enough, my final receipt after tax and $15.04 2-day shipping said $203.04. I though hey, maybe they messed up and now after the $50 mail in rebate I'll get a $399 MSRP camera for $153.04. The next day, I was contacted via phone (on a Sunday suprisingly) by a salesman from wawadigital.net to "confirm my order". He double checked my address and order information which I thought was impressive and noble of them to do.

Then he said that the price I paid is after a mail in rebate so he would have to add on the $50.00 to my sale. As soon as I questioned this, charging my credit card a different amount than my receipt, the salesman's demeanor immediatly turned from patient and polite and warm to "I don't have time for this, I'm cancelling your order. " All I had done was question this practice, not say I didn't want the camera. I though about it for a minute and after comparing the price sheet to other retailers, decided that even after adding $50.00 it was still worth it. I called back the number and convinced him that I would go ahead with the order at the higher price if he sent me a proper receipt. He was not patient or nice at this point, cussing at me and giving a very rude version of what I'd call "customer service". After agreeing to not cancel my order he then asked if I wanted to add on any memory cards or - but I cut him off before he could list accessories saying No I don't want anything besides the retail box with the camera and what it comes with from the manufacturer. He had hung up before I could finish that sentance. I figured that my order was still going through.

While waiting for my order to arrive (tuesday or wednesday if he shipped it out on monday) I researched wawadigital.net because that seemed a little fishy. I couldn't find anything about wawadigital.net, they're a yahoo store and there was no feedback about them on yahoo's review system. I looked on their website to see if I could find any better info to cross-reference with. Just an email, mailto:wawadigital@yahoo.com (oops, did I just post that publicly?) and that was it. I checked their domain registration whois information and got a name and address. The name was too generic to bring up anything on google but the address brought up such links as

http://www.complaints.com/directory/2004/november/ 10/24.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff146772.h tm
http://www.shopcartusa.com/wawadigital/Details/Rev iewsOrder_Worst/Page_1/

I read through hundreds of stories explaining situations very similar to mine with all sorts of bait-and-switching going on and started to wonder if they had ever sold a camera in their life. I realized that they had a

Eh, they could have taken advantage of pricing mistakes.

So what you are saying is basicaly that since you don't pay for the service they can do as they want with any 3rd pary's copyrighted works ??

How would you feel about it if your text would have appeared on /. as fllows:

• Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't dejanews a free service they provide to people? In which case aren't they entitled to do do what they want with it? If you don't like it, use a different news feed.

  Blane.

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