From: megazone@omar.WPI.EDU (MegaZone23)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: Re: AnimeCon 92 missing check info
Date: 29 Sep 92 15:35:59 GMT
Organization: WPI USAF -- United Society of Animation Fans
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In article <3BauRB1w165w@clubzen.fidonet.org> dstbunny@clubzen.fidonet.org (Brin McLaughlin) writes:
>Additionally, many of you were told to issue stop-payment orders on your 
>checks made out to AnimeCon 92. This action was NEVER sanctioned by the 
>AnimeCon Corporation, and we did not find out that such orders were 
>issued until weeks and weeks after the fact. If you issued a stop-payment 
>order on your AnimeCon 92 check, then it was under the direction of 
>person or persons who were NOT authorized to give such orders. This 
>consitutes interference of commerce, which is illegal. Please send me 
>E-mail with the name of the aforementioned person or persons so we will 
>at least know who did such a dumb thing, and so that we can decide 
>whether further action should be taken.
>The person(s) who told you to stop pay were not authorized 
>representatives of the AnimeCon Corporation, and are responsible for 
>re-imbursement to you of related costs.

Hmmm.... I seem to recall no one TELLING anyone to do anything. After several
months of people not hearing from AnimeCon and questioning what was going on
with their money several people suggested that if they were realy concerned 
about AnimeCon taking the monwy and running to issue a stop payment.

This was a SUGGESTION on the part of a few people as I recall, and not a bad 
one either. If any corporation has a check from me for several months and it is
evident that goods or services will not be forthcoming, ie AnimeCon was 
cancelled, a stop payment is in order unless the stop payment will cost more 
than the value of the check. That's only logical, I try to keep spite out of my
business transactions.

Either I was in a parrellel universe or I missed the posts in question, or 
perhaps it was via email, but I don't recall anyone issuing ORDERS, TELLING or
DIRECTING anyone to issue a stop payment. Merely they SUGGESTED that the truly
concerned had a stop payment as an option. Apparently a number of people 
considered it a good option.

Now, with that said. I don't see an logic in claimng that AnimeCon is 
responsible to cover the stop payment fee. It is a personal choice and AnimeCon
did not require you to do so. If anyone had direct evidence of deliberate 
fraud which would require a stop payment as a safeguard then I can see a 
legitimate claim. However, I have not seen any such evidence presented and any
choice to issue a stop payment was simply a personal choice to make the issuer
of the check more comfortable.

I suppose this could be argued back and forth ad nauseum, and just for those
who don't know this I'm not a lawyer, just a fan who tries to approach things
logically and objectively. Anything above is simply my opinion.

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