Nick,
Actually, I consider that a good scenario. I acquire the
title for free, since my patrons have come to depend on
it, it has proven its usefullness, so I'd be willing to
pay for updates on a proven title.
My $.02
Henry Gozdz
Law Librarian
Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen Vicinage
Hackensack, NJ
>
> And Consider this: If you do keep the item as an
> "unsolicited gift" and
> add it to your collection, down the road your patrons may
> come to depend
> on the title. Then you'll need to buy updates or new
> editions. Quite a
> racket......
>
>
> Nick Worthington
> Librarian
> Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
> San Francisco Library
> 415.882.1005
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Brown [mailto:NBrown@wendel.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:05 PM
> To: 'Rappold, Elizabeth'; Zimmerman, Stuart;
> law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: RE: Thomson/RIA Beware
>
>
>
> Elizabeth and all:
>
> Time will tell how many of us end up paying for this
> gimmick. I
> haven't gone through my piles of mail yet this week, but
> I'm sure
> there's one of these little time bombs in there for me.
> They didn't
> send an invoice with the product, right? No, that will
> come in a week
> and a half or so, making it harder to connect the unwanted
> product with
> an invoice to reference when either fighting the
> legitimacy of the
> shipment or sending it back.
>
> And then this will go on your running "past due" list
> from
> Thomson, even though you never ordered it and have refuted
> its
> legitimacy (and they've ignored or spaced out your
> refutation), or sent
> it back without the invoice and its two gimundo reference
> numbers (one
> nine digit number and one ten digit number, just for
> double the fun!!).
>
>
> And then in a couple of years Thomson will sick a nasty
> zealot
> of an accounts receivable clerk on you who threatens you
> with
> collections if you don't pay all 2 or 3 years of past dues
> yesterday.
> So you'll pay for the blasted thing because you can't
> track it back to
> the original gimmick...an unsolicited shipment you never
> wanted in the
> first place...that came without an invoice.
>
> This is the monkey business that is passing for legal
> publishing
> nowadays. They can't make money through legitimate sales,
> so I believe
> they've cooked up this slimey jiggery-pokery to bring in
> revenues. I'm
> in a little war with Thomson over this malfeasance, as I
> have called it,
> and sorry guys at the top level have heard from me on it.
> You see how
> effective I've been!
>
> Happy Tuesday.
>
> Nancy Brown, Librarian
> Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean, LLP
> 1111 Broadway, Suite 2400
> Oakland, CA 94607
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rappold, Elizabeth [mailto:erappold@coxsmith.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:44 PM
> To: Zimmerman, Stuart; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: RE: Thomson/RIA Beware
>
>
> Stuart,
> If it's a big thick green paperback, we got one too.
> I'm not paying for it either!
> Elizabeth Rappold, M.L.S.
> Library Manager
> Cox & Smith Incorporated
> 112 E. Pecan Street, Suite 1800
> San Antonio, TX 78205
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> From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Zimmerman,
> Stuart
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 4:19 PM
> To: 'law-lib@ucdavis.edu'
> Subject: Thomson/RIA Beware
>
>
>
> Heads up! Thomson RIA is sending out
> unsolicited materials. We just received a copy of a WG&L
> title with a
> cover letter by the author (I'm not including the title as
> I'm not going
> to give them any free publicity). I just spoke with "Fred
> in Customer
> Service" who tried to defend the shipment ("If you don't
> want the title
> you can just return it with the enclosed shipping
> label."). I explained
> that unsolicited shipments are a violation of US postal
> laws, but Fred
> was undeterred and declined to provide me with a name and
> address to
> which I could send my "thank you for the gift" note, but
> I'll send it to
> the company generally anyway. Beware!
>
> Stuart Zimmerman
> Library Manager, Portland Office
> Davis Wright Tremaine
> 1300 SW Fifth, Ste. 2300
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