Comments on: Scammed Southwest customer goes after con artist with nine iron http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/ The travel troubleshooter. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:21:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anthony S http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-29702 Anthony S Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:53:37 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-29702 Reading some of these posts calls to mind a 1990's article by Jeffrey Snyder entitled "A Nation of Cowards" You wusses ought to read it. Reading some of these posts calls to mind a 1990’s article by Jeffrey Snyder entitled “A Nation of Cowards”

You wusses ought to read it.

]]> By: namaste http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-29565 namaste Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:40:32 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-29565 When the law does nothing to help someone who has been wronged, if you just turn the other cheek, the wrong doed will continue. <a href="http://www.jeffreyrasley.com/Current%20Expedition,%20Nepal%202010.htm" rel="nofollow">namaste</a> When the law does nothing to help someone who has been wronged, if you just turn the other cheek, the wrong doed will continue.
namaste

]]> By: Noah http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-26708 Noah Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:41:49 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-26708 If LeClair didn't get arrested, I would be furious if I were the store manager. It is NOT okay to take the law into your own hands on my property. If you want to do it somewhere else, I don't really care. If LeClair didn’t get arrested, I would be furious if I were the store manager. It is NOT okay to take the law into your own hands on my property. If you want to do it somewhere else, I don’t really care.

]]> By: Jessica Gottlieb http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-25600 Jessica Gottlieb Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:13:00 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-25600 I sure hope his 9 iron is okay, those graphite shafts don't hold up well and I'd be super sad if he didn't have a good short game after this. *go get 'em* I love a little frontier justice I sure hope his 9 iron is okay, those graphite shafts don’t hold up well and I’d be super sad if he didn’t have a good short game after this.

*go get ‘em*

I love a little frontier justice

]]> By: Joe P. http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-15197 Joe P. Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:32:58 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-15197 I love how there are people here who say that we are a society of laws. So you're telling you've never gone beyond the speed limit? Come on, he had every right to detain him and constrain him under a citizens arrest. He followed the law by not knocking him out. And no jury would convict him after his defense would give the story about his daughter was heartbroken because she couldn't go flying because the con artist ripped them off. I love how there are people here who say that we are a society of laws. So you’re telling you’ve never gone beyond the speed limit? Come on, he had every right to detain him and constrain him under a citizens arrest. He followed the law by not knocking him out. And no jury would convict him after his defense would give the story about his daughter was heartbroken because she couldn’t go flying because the con artist ripped them off.

]]> By: Ed http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-14922 Ed Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:54:50 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-14922 It kinda reminds me of an article I read a few years ago where a group of men smashed down the apartment door of a spammer they tracked down and beat him up with a baseball bat! I think that people who violate other's rights should have no rights themselves... Ed web/gadget guru It kinda reminds me of an article I read a few years ago where a group of men smashed down the apartment door of a spammer they tracked down and beat him up with a baseball bat!
I think that people who violate other’s rights should have no rights themselves…
Ed
web/gadget guru

]]> By: RB http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-14827 RB Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:41:20 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-14827 "LeClair wonders how Southwest can continue to allow fraudulent purchases to be made through its reservations system. " That's easy - it simply costs Southwest less to allow the occasional fraudulent purchase (that is eventually reimbursed to the credit card holder by the bank) than it does to put more anti-fraud protocols in place on their website and/or reservations system. “LeClair wonders how Southwest can continue to allow fraudulent purchases to be made through its reservations system. ”

That’s easy – it simply costs Southwest less to allow the occasional fraudulent purchase (that is eventually reimbursed to the credit card holder by the bank) than it does to put more anti-fraud protocols in place on their website and/or reservations system.

]]> By: Joshua Katt http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-14817 Joshua Katt Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:48:29 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-14817 My final comment. If you know Southwest, you know their unique and customer friendly fare policy. You may buy and cancel non-refundable airfares and then YOU have one year from purchase to use the funds as you see fit, including buying a ticket for another party. Often people have no future need to travel and rather than let them expire for NO MONEY, will entice others to use them by offering a DISCOUNT (otherwise, why would a purchaser bother?). Its just smart money management. So let $300 bucks turn worthless or get a percentage back by offering to Mr. LeClair on Craigslist? Win-WIn. All hail Ted LeClair, a hero for today's times! And Southwest too. My final comment.

If you know Southwest, you know their unique and customer friendly fare policy. You may buy and cancel non-refundable airfares and then YOU have one year from purchase to use the funds as you see fit, including buying a ticket for another party. Often people have no future need to travel and rather than let them expire for NO MONEY, will entice others to use them by offering a DISCOUNT (otherwise, why would a purchaser bother?). Its just smart money management. So let $300 bucks turn worthless or get a percentage back by offering to Mr. LeClair on Craigslist? Win-WIn.

All hail Ted LeClair, a hero for today’s times! And Southwest too.

]]> By: The Good Doctor http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-14803 The Good Doctor Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:38:04 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-14803 Admiration for LeClair going after a scam artist with a 9-iron? YES! Sympathy for someone who tries to deprive Southwest Airlines of revenue by buying questionable tickets via a stranger on Craigslist? NO!!!! Admiration for LeClair going after a scam artist with a 9-iron? YES!

Sympathy for someone who tries to deprive Southwest Airlines of revenue by buying questionable tickets via a stranger on Craigslist? NO!!!!

]]> By: Tito http://www.elliott.org/blog/scammed-southwest-customer-goes-after-con-artist-with-nine-iron/comment-page-1/#comment-14801 Tito Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:00:34 +0000 http://www.elliott.org/?p=5243#comment-14801 Going back to the original blog, and then reading this one, I'm not sure I see how Southwest would have any culpability in the matter. The moment this guy or anyone else purchases a ticket from someone other than Southwest, they are their customer. If a person buys a ticket through a travel agency, and the payment that person uses ends up being fraudulent, the travel agency is responsible and they eat the loss. If you buy a ticket from a scammer on Craig's List, you are now their customer, attempting to use a service provided by Southwest that has not been paid for. Going back to the original blog, and then reading this one, I’m not sure I see how Southwest would have any culpability in the matter. The moment this guy or anyone else purchases a ticket from someone other than Southwest, they are their customer. If a person buys a ticket through a travel agency, and the payment that person uses ends up being fraudulent, the travel agency is responsible and they eat the loss. If you buy a ticket from a scammer on Craig’s List, you are now their customer, attempting to use a service provided by Southwest that has not been paid for.

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