Re: GEN: Unsolicited videos: new name for company?

[Suzanne Weinheimer <suzanne@WHATEXIT.COM>]

>   Is anyone familiar with The American Institute for Education, operating
>out of Las Vegas?  Is it a new name for Educational Distributors of America,
>well-known to this group for mailing unsolicited videos?  Their tactics are
>similar.  American Institute for Education has just sent me videos without
>even speaking to me.  They had the school secretary relay a phone message
>that three videos were being mailed to me on approval.  This time around,
>I'm not wasting time or energy on returning their stuff, but maybe I can
>erase the tapes and use them for something taped at school.

 Not sure if this is the same outfit that was discussed last year on
LMNET. But they also relayed a message through our secy. When she pushed
to get a phone number (so I could call back) they told her no, "that
there was a phone number in the package if I had any questions". 800
Directory assistance had no listing for them (I think they were in
Nevada?),; which I had expected.

When the box showed up, I marked it refused, return to sender, and gave
it to the UPS guy when he came next. I didn't have any experience with
the EDA mentioned earlier, but remembered the messages from last year. I
asked the other district librarians if they had also received phone
calls; none had, but I must have been at the top of the list, since less
than 3 days later, another librarian called me to say she got a phone
call. <g> And she knew what to tell them.

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Suzanne Weinheimer, Librarian
South Mountain Elementary School Library
444 West South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079
1-973-378-7848 / FAX: 1-973-564-9633
email: suzanne@whatexit.com
WWW: http://www.southmountain.somsd.k12.nj.us
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