Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site alberta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!alberta!makaren From: makaren@alberta.UUCP (Darrell Makarenko) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Gold Coast Distributers Message-ID: <242@alberta.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 12:07:16 EST Article-I.D.: alberta.242 Posted: Tue Dec 4 12:07:16 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 00:36:20 EST References: <44000013@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Lines: 19 > I just got a call from an outfit called Gold Coast Distributers of > Los Angeles, telling me that I am one of 2500 people chosen for a > special promotion. The bottom line on his spiel is that if I pay > $298 for a year's supply of vitamins I will also get one of 5 "gifts". > The gifts are: > 1) An 18 food cabin power boat. > 2) A Sony home entertainment center (projection TV, VCR and stereo). > 3) A cable TV satellite dish. > 4) An IBM PC jr with monitor and printer. > 5) A 1985 Cadillac. From information I have seen on the net before I think it is 3) The cable TV satellite dish This dish is not your standard full size $2-3K type of dish but is in fact a small (1-2ft diam) cheap receiving dish with no accompanying sophisticated electronics worth maybe fifty bucks. Don't expect a high quality signal from this one. Of course with all those vitamins to eat you probably won't have much time to watch TV anyway.