Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site microsoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!microsoft!jerryd From: jerryd@microsoft.UUCP (jerryd) Newsgroups: net.records Subject: Re: Record Club of America Message-ID: <8644@microsoft.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 13:14:41 EDT Article-I.D.: microsof.8644 Posted: Mon Aug 1 13:14:41 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 20:09:08 EDT References: <2248@ncsu.UUCP> Organization: Microsoft Corporation Lines: 22 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