To Whom It May Concern:
I saw this on UK usenet cyclingforums and was unable to post there (it's ok).
My comment is: when you join a CD club and get unwanted CDs you can just put them back with a note to send them back, with no postage paid by you.
My question is: does anyone know of any general guidelines for this sort of thing in the (United) States, and, if so, what are they?
Jacob Vickery
Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA
Alan Braggins
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In article said:Just Visiting suggested:
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Risks having to give them back if 6. Keep quiet and see what happens is my
advice.and Rob Morley responded:
Quoted message said:I think you'll find that constitutes "theft by finding" or something
similar.AIUI under the Distance Selling Regulations if a supplier sends you
unsolicited goods then they are yours, FOC.
IIRC, fairly quickly if you tell the supplier and they decline the
opportunity to come and take them away, after quite some time if
you don't tell them.
But I think there's a difference between "a supplier sends you
unsolicited goods" and "a supplier sends someone else solicited
goods that get delivered to you by mistake". Morally if not legally.
(We had a flatpack garden bench left recently with no delivery note,
but since we're 31A and next door is 31 and has had quite a lot of work
recently after being sold, we guessed it was for them. But allegedly
if you are a van driver with a package that has lost its documentation,
it's easier to dump it somewhere and pretend it never existed and let
the non-delivery be someone else's problem than to take it back to the
depot and say "I've got this left over and don't know what to do with it".
Most van drivers will do the right thing even if it is more hassle, but
not all.)
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