On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, John Foust wrote:
>
> > Does anyone recall the month and year the "World Power Systems"
> > scam advertisement appeared in (was it?) Byte?
>
> What was the nature of this scam?
Oh, this one was a goodie! A series of splashy, full color ads for a line
of really cool sounding S-100 boards at a very good (for the time) price,
only problem was that they took the money and never shipped any product.
Heck, there never was any product to be shipped!
Stung BYTE, and a number of other publications for ad fees that were never
payed...
The real hoot to the thing was that if you looked REAL close at the
pictures of the boards in the ad, you might notice that while there were
components on the boards, there were NO traces on the boards!
Guess they could have claimed 'transmutational signal propogation through
osmosis'! (gee, a slogan!?)
Now, what was that guy's name...? (ROTTOMT)
-jim
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Received on Thu Oct 08 1998 - 17:38:00 BST