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Originally posted by crystalk64
Ageka I don't suppose they ever send out gold on approval do they? If you get things unsolicited here the law will protect you as well but many companies use the "fine print" in their offers which means you MUST have read the offer? Or at least you had the opportunity to read it and failed to do so? They buy on the Eagles is really a great buy at this time so I would take the coins, send the others back and cancel the subscription pretty quickly.
They will not risk too much as long as you did not really sign a one year contract explicit or implicit
Typical trials from registered non profit organisations are sending half a dozen easter best wishes cards and asking for a 25 euro donation
Sending 100 selfadhesive lables with your address and name on it
Sending a small steel or copper coin and asking for a 25 euro donation
Donations can be substracted from taxes and a lot of whitecoller incomes are in the 65% marginal tax bracket so they get 65% back through tax relieve so that remorse at accepting something for nothing makes this a worthwile endeavor
(The law puts the minimum donation at 25 euro to be elligible for tax reduction )
Since consumer protection organisms have said over and over again that you can keep whatever is send unsollicited they stopped sending relatively expensive items like books etc
On the other hand if you buy a cheap coin like in Germany I saw offers for cheap 1/25th oz gold coins and if the small print says that you accept a coin every month during a year subject to cancellation that would be binding
Cancellation however is often difficult unless you use registerd mail and that eats up all your gains since it costs 5 euro
So no cheap offers for me , too costly or too timeconsuming
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Posted 04/12/2006 07:42 am
