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From: tim@minn-ua.UUCP (Tim Giebelhaus)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: $2.00 diamond ring
Message-ID: <992@minn-ua.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 13:29:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 18 13:29:39 1984
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  I didn't really expect anything that I did not pay for.  My only loss was
two or three 20 cent stamps.  It seems that they are not going to cash the
two dollar check.  I filled in the FOR: part on the check for a "diamond 
ring."  

  Here is a letter that I got that explains this place.  Thankyou for sending
it.
>References: <980@minn-ua.UUCP>
>Status: RO
>
>The outfit you are describing just had an investigative feature done
>on them by Channel 2 News here in NYC, and there seem to be charges pending
>against them from the New York State Attorney Generals office, or some such
>legal entity.  The ring, if you ever get it, has the most miniscule
>diamond speck you can imagine, set in a glass surrounding to make it look
>like a decent size, and the ring itself has a total worth of about $.50
>(according to the appraisal in the expose').  They (Prize Headquarters)
>are doubtlessly the ones sending all the junk, but you can file some
>kind of form with the Post Office refusing delivery on all junk mail.
>This will stop the annoying flood.  Good luck!

  I am a little dissapointed.  I was expecting a $1.00 ring and I will only
the a $0.50 ring... unless I get nothing.  I don't really care either way.