A company called Library Express out of Wisconsin called me and asked me to preview
books. I said I was not allowed to preview, only the department chair was allowed
to. Next thing I know I have a box of books to preview - addressed to the
Department chair but with my school's address. I called and said I did not
authorize the shipment and neither did my department chair. They insisted they had
talked to her and she had okayed it. I called her and she was adamant that she had
never talked to them. They arranged for the books to be picked up and I thought
that was the end of it until today. One of my colleagues called and said they did
the same thing to her - only she was expecting a shipment of books from a grant and
thought they were the expected books and processed them and when she discovered the
mistake had to pay a $1600 bill. When she called the department chair to confess
her mistake, the chair told her that she also had a box of books in her office from
the s!
ame
company that she had not ordered. So if you get a call from them and do not want
to have the books sent, be sure to tell them that if they dend the books you will
consider them to be a gift and NOT pay for them. If they get burnt often enough
they will stop this shady business practice. Thank you - Climbing down fromr my
soap box - Jean
Jean Lowery, LMS, PhD
Bishop Woods School
bishop.wds.school@snet.net
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