Suspicious "requested" email

[Anonymous]

My Adesk subscription is up this month, and awhile back I got an email from
someone, supposedly from my VAR. She sent me official looking paperwork to
fill out to renew my subscription....credit card authorization forms and
such. It all looked just like it has when I've done this in the past, and
she talked like it was just a matter of course.

What got me is that the tone of the email was all "here's the stuff you
requested, and here's what to do with it."... but I never requested
anything. In fact, I haven't talked to my VAR at all since I renewed last
year. I always call them when I'm ready to renew, and I haven't made that
call yet.

So either some semi-sharp cookie is scamming, or my VAR has decided to try
the kind of marketing tactics I normally associate with the people who are
forever wanting to sell me performance enhancing drugs and inviting me to
visit skanky websites...

I emailed her back, asking who had "requested" that she send me this stuff,
and....

Cheers,
Walt

[Anonymous]

David Kozina wrote:
> Walt,
>
> To be brutally honest, I'm feeling somewhat torn on the whole issue.
>

whiner! 😉

Me? I totally ignore (except for this post) the
Autodesk/Subscription/WhatItCosts issues that are posted here and
elsewhere. I also pay for my subscription out of my own pocket being a
sole proprietor and have for almost as long as you have. The reason that
I escaped the bay area construction rat race that I was in back in the
70's and 80's is because I discovered AutoCAD. And I shall be forever
grateful for the freedom that I have gained because of it. I make enough
money every year to not have to worry about what AutoCAD costs. It's
such an insignificant drop in the bucket that it's not even a blip on my
radar.

btw, geometrical and dimensional constraints in 2010 are enough reason
to upgrade IMO, but then I upgrade every year anyway.

hope all is well with you David,
--
Dave - DDP
Acad 2010 64 bit on Win 7 Pro
Intel I7-860 @2.8GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM
GeForce GTX260

[Anonymous]

On 1/7/2010 9:19 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> Anthony Mason wrote:
>
>> On 1/7/2010 8:47 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>>
>>> omc-usnr wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've had Adesk email me a couple of "reminders" that subscription was going, and I could renew on line, and my VAR emailed me a reminder as well, but didn't crouch it in terms that I had requested it.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, I'm pretty happy with Delta Engineering Systems as my VAR. Sharp guys. Good to deal with.
>>>>
>>>> Reid
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Tim Corey at Delta has been my VAR since around '92. His input and
>>> assistance early on in my AutoCAD career was instrumental in my success
>>> today. And, no Tim, the check is NOT in the mail 😉
>>>
>>>
>> Ditto that! Hey, where are you guys located? AFAIK, they don't sell
>> AutoCAD Architecture anymore, but they do use their office to host the
>> local Autodesk User Group.
>>
>>
> Hey Anthony! when I started with Tim I was in Burney, CA, east of
> Redding. I've moved around quite a bit since then and am now on the
> central coast of CA near Pismo Beach (Arroyo Grande). It used to be that
> you had to be within a 200 mile radius from your dealer which is how I
> got stuck with Tim in the first place and since then he just hasn't let
> me go anywhere else 😛
>
> Where are you located?
>
I'm here in Redding, right up the road from him. We had a lot of
contact when I was on the coast in Eureka, but not too much since then.
Did you hear that someone tried to rob the Burney bank a couple weeks
ago? Crazy!
http://www.redding.com/news/2009/dec/22/burney-community-celebrates-reopening-of-bank-up/?partner=RSS

--
Anthony Mason
http://dailyoccurrence.wordpress.com/

[Anonymous]

Anthony Mason wrote:
> On 1/7/2010 9:19 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>> Anthony Mason wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/7/2010 8:47 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>> omc-usnr wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I've had Adesk email me a couple of "reminders" that subscription was going, and I could renew on line, and my VAR emailed me a reminder as well, but didn't crouch it in terms that I had requested it.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, I'm pretty happy with Delta Engineering Systems as my VAR. Sharp guys. Good to deal with.
>>>>>
>>>>> Reid
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Tim Corey at Delta has been my VAR since around '92. His input and
>>>> assistance early on in my AutoCAD career was instrumental in my success
>>>> today. And, no Tim, the check is NOT in the mail 😉
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ditto that! Hey, where are you guys located? AFAIK, they don't sell
>>> AutoCAD Architecture anymore, but they do use their office to host the
>>> local Autodesk User Group.
>>>
>>>
>> Hey Anthony! when I started with Tim I was in Burney, CA, east of
>> Redding. I've moved around quite a bit since then and am now on the
>> central coast of CA near Pismo Beach (Arroyo Grande). It used to be that
>> you had to be within a 200 mile radius from your dealer which is how I
>> got stuck with Tim in the first place and since then he just hasn't let
>> me go anywhere else 😛
>>
>> Where are you located?
>>
> I'm here in Redding, right up the road from him. We had a lot of
> contact when I was on the coast in Eureka, but not too much since then.
> Did you hear that someone tried to rob the Burney bank a couple weeks
> ago? Crazy!
> http://www.redding.com/news/2009/dec/22/burney-community-celebrates-reopening-of-bank-up/?partner=RSS
>

hey Anthony, I've got a friend in Redding who is also an Acad guy that
you may want to hook up with. If you have an interest email me at dave
at ddpcad dot com and I'll get you guys together. He happened to tell me
about the bank robbery. It was where I used to do my banking. Oh, and
another small world department: I was born in Eureka and lived in
Trinidad for 6 years after I left Burney 🙂
--
Dave - DDP
Acad 2010 64 bit on Win 7 Pro
Intel I7-860 @2.8GHz
8GB DDR3 RAM
GeForce GTX260

[Anonymous]

:))

--
Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
--

[Anonymous]

I'm in Medford on the North side of the border. I was in a C3d training session a few months back when the user's group met at Tim's office. Good people.

Reid