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Complaint Review: Bottom Line Books

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  • Submitted: Sunday, May 31, 2009
  • Last Posting: Monday, June 01, 2009
  • Reported By:Scottsdale Arizona
Bottom Line Books
P.O.Box 11014 Des Moines Iowa 50336-1014 U.S.A.

Bottom Line Books Sent unordered Annual Book. Assumed perpetual, automatic reorder for life. Order was never made. Des Moines Iowa


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I ordered a single book, one time, from this company a year earlier. "Bottom Line Books" continues to send perpetual annual books, and bills automatically without your ordering.

They provide no web information or way to stop the service. They do not use credit card companies to avoid the complaints that would result from their strategically unethical marketing plan. (Intimidation billing of smaller amounts, to be paid by check only to a P.O. Box. no physical address, or phone, or web contact info provided.) They strategically inconvenience you, to force payment (because its nominal at $37.00), for unordered merchandise, or to repackage and send back the book.

As unordered merchandise, I treated the book as a gift under U. S Postal regulations for unordered merchandise. I am now being dunned by the NSA, "North Shore Collection Agency, Inc." for non-payment of the $36.92 bill for the unordered book. If my high, and judiciously monitored credit score is lowered by this action, I will be substantially, and irrevocably damaged and should be entitled to substantial punitive damages for the work time that may be necessary to repair my credit, threatened by their collection actions for this unordered "gift book".

I believe their carefully crafted marketing strategy, used nationally throughout the U.S. depends on inconveniencing consumers for low dollar amounts to aggravate them, through collection agency demands, for payment.

The amounts are small enough that the efforts taken here by me, are rarely taken by others, because of time shortages. Thus, they are able to milk the public like a Tick, slowly drinking your blood ($) like a small nuisance vampire in the mail order market place. They should be stopped. Physically explicit written orders should be required before they send any books out unordered.

Thank you for providing a venue for alerting the public to these insidious marketing practices!

Robert
Scottsdale, Arizona
U.S.A.

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Legal Citation:United States Code Title 39, Part IV, Chapter 30, § Section 3009

AUTHOR: Robert - Scottsdale (U.S.A.)

"§ 3009. Mailing of unordered merchandise (a) Except for (1) free samples clearly and conspicuously marked as such, and (2) merchandise mailed by a charitable organization soliciting contributions, the mailing of un­ordered merchandise or of communications prohibited by subsection (c) of this section constitutes an unfair method of competition and an unfair trade practice in violation of section 45 (a)(1) of title 15. (b) Any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, may be treated as a gift by the recipient, who shall have the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender. All such merchandise shall have attached to it a clear and conspicuous statement informing the recipient that he may treat the merchandise as a gift to him and has the right to retain, use, discard, or dispose of it in any manner he sees fit without any obligation whatsoever to the sender. (c) No mailer of any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, shall mail to any recipient of such merchandise a bill for such merchandise or any dunning communications. (d) For the purposes of this section, “un­ordered merchandise” means merchandise mailed without the prior expressed request or consent of the recipient. "
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