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From: jerryd@microsoft.UUCP (jerryd)
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Subject: Re: Record Club of America
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Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 13:14:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  1 13:14:41 1983
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I seem to recall that the Record Club of America got in trouble
with the law, unlike many of those clubs which obligate you to
buy n records over x years at standard prices.  It seems that when
they didn't have the record you wanted in stock, they would ship
a "close approximation," without any indication.  (I believe that
part of their problem with the law also involved the fact that they often
advertised records which they didn't stock or were understocked on.)

When I was young and my brother and I dealt with RCoA, on at least
one occasion we received a different album from the one we ordered.
We assumed that they had made a shipping error, and since the LP we
received was by the same artist, and included the same "hit" song as the
actual record, we never complained.  (Having grown older and wiser,
I now care about more than one single per album....  Then again, having
grown older and wiser, I refuse to divulge the name of the "artist"
in question.)

Hope this matches other people's information.  Anyhow, my personal experience
seems to confirm my recollection.  Can anyone confirm RCoA's legal hassles?

				Jerry Dunietz, Microsoft Corp.
				decvax!microsoft!jerryd