Posted on 01/12/2003 3:55:15 PM PST by StopDemocratsDotCom
breakin
Yesterday's "story" stocks. This is whay so many investors lose money in the market - always chasing what went up last. Those stocks will be dead money for years and years to come, now.
Tell her to covet DROOY, GG, HFI, and PAAS instead...
I don't know if you can make CPAC this year. If not give me a shout out I will get some goodies for you.
Steve Case Will Step Down A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP
As AOL Time Warner Chair
NEW YORK -- Steve Case will step down as chairman of AOL Time Warner Inc. at the firm's annual shareholders' meeting in May, according to a company press release.
Mr. Case informed CEO Richard Parsons and the company's board of his decision to step down over the weekend.
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"As you might expect, this decision was personally very difficult for me, as I would love to serve as Chairman of this great company for many years to come, and as an architect of the merger I have felt it was important that I stay the course as Chairman and help get things on track. However, after careful consideration, I believe stepping down is in the best interest of the company," Mr. Case said in a statement.
Late last year, as criticism of the America Online division mounted within the company, Mr. Case was said to have weighed spinning off the unit. America Online continues to be the lightning rod for the company's woes, amid the fallout from the burst Internet bubble. AOL Time Warner company is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department for the way it accounted for certain advertising transactions engineered by America Online. In October, the company announced a bigger-than-expected, $190 million restatement of financial results for the past two years because of faulty accounting.
In ceding his post Sunday, Mr. Case noted that "some shareholders continue to focus their disappointment with the company's post-merger performance on me personally."
Mr. Case will remain at AOL Time Warner as a director and a co-chair of the strategy committee.
--Boris
Yep, and every person who is stupid about computers has it, or has recently tried it, too. I just spent a few hours this afternoon taking spyware and bloatware off a computer I sold to a customer a few weeks ago. Seems they got impatient with the free NoCharge.com dialup I put on there for them, and succumbed to one of those ever-present coasters flying around out there.
Glad to see Case put in his place, he's the arrogant head of a company that treats the American public more shabbily than any other I have ever known. And that includes US car companies, too!
I pay $5 a month and have it as a back-up to my cable. The other day I called to cancel, and the rep told me how to get free access my filling out surveys and junk lol (the AOL email acct can get spammed I don't use it lol). You can 'earn' up to about $10 in free time.
You can't quit!! AOL is like herpes: it never goes away. I tried to cancel in September, and got the spiel about a free month, then another month after that, all the while being charged for the "service." When I called the so called customer service, they have "no record of the calls I made where I was offered complimentary (that means free in my dictionary) service for the months of October and November, and that the charges would apply.
I have since removed every vestige of AOL from my computer, laptop, and work computers, and am considering expuging Netscape because they own it.
If you are an AOL customer and you wish to cancel, do not accept any offers of "free" months, and inform that (for training purposes LOL), you are recording the phone transaction. I suggest you really do it if able, because you might as well be speaking to a wall if you don't. Hundreds of similar complaints at aolsucks.com and aolwatch.com.
Be warned: they lie and then lie about the lying. NEVER allow automatic credit card debiting. No wonder they are going down the toilet.
I did once have 2 AOL accounts. 2 1/2 years ago I cancelled one of them (the computer wasn't even working anymore) and then didn't pay attention right away to whether they had stopped auto billing my credit card.
Needless to say they hadn't...and when I caught it they had billed me 3 months more for complete NON USE!
I called their customer service and complained and they did admit I had cancelled etc, then they credited my account for 6 months service total (because the rep could see we really hadn't used the acct for awhile before that due to computer problems etc)
I did get the credit the next billing....but they may have been "nice" to me since I still had another current account.
When I want to QUIT them 'cold turkey' I will remember NOT to accept any "FREE" months etc...
ROFL - that was great!
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