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Subject: Credit Charges On Mail Orders
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Date: Wed, 25-May-83 20:33:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 25 20:33:11 1983
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As I recall the Federal law regulating credit cards, the provision
allowing you to stop payment if the merchandise or service does
not satisfy you is only applicable if the merchant is within 75 miles
of the bank that issued the card.  I do not know the reason for
this provision.  Of course, the agreement you have with your bank
may allow stopping payment and, in any case, the merchant and
the bank may not not know about or care to enforce the payment
requirement when you are dissatisfied.

I might also add that I am not a lawyer, but that I did study this 
with a professor of commercial law in preparation for a joint
seminar we gave about 18 months ago.  

Charles