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...also offering credits or refunds on request to members who don't feel they have gotten sufficient value from AOL due to our capacity problems," he says...
...Scouts of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, are working on a new badge: "hard bargaining." Smack in the middle of the cookie-selling season, 27 area troops demanded a bigger commission from the South Jersey Pines council, which oversees Mount Laurel and six other area troops. When HQ rejected their request, the troops retaliated with a slowdown, vowing to peddle only the 12-box minimum. "This is the first I've heard of anything like this," says Marianne Ilaw, spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of America, which has been selling cookies annually for 69 years...
...clubs they were having a series of contests," says one Harvard traveler who wished to remain anonymous. "One [contest] was a request for the biggest bra size. At first I ignored it. When the biggest size they could get was 34B, I said 'That's really pathetic.' I won a bottle of rum for the contest. I met a lot of new friends that...
...provide enough phone lines to handle the avalanche of customer calls for refunds. After navigating through a three-minute maze of menu options, callers Friday invariably hit a dead end with a recorded message to "call again later." Customer service representatives suggested that subscribers put their refund request in writing instead -- but an AOL spokesperson said that writing in would get customers nowhere. Noting that the settlement with several state attorneys general was worked out in less than a week, AOL insists that service will get better as their hastily-contrived phone operation adds more operators...
...provide enough phone lines to handle the avalanche of customer calls for refunds. After navigating through a three-minute maze of menu options, callers Friday invariably hit a dead end with a recorded message to "call again later." Customer service representatives suggested that subscribers put their refund request in writing instead -- but an AOL spokesperson said that writing in would get customers nowhere. Noting that the settlement with several state attorneys general was worked out in less than a week, AOL insists that service will get better as their hastily-contrived phone operation adds more operators...