[Dhsbb-jazz] Fwd: Scrip News in Sacramento Bee

[dhsbb-jazz at mailman.dcn.org]

> Dear Band Booster families and alumni,
>
> You may or may not be aware of the recent news involving one of the  
> nation's largest scrip
> companies, Scrip Advantage, based in Fresno.  There is a story  on  
> the front page of  this
> morning's Sacramento Bee regarding their ongoing financial  
> difficulties and apparently fraudulent
> dealings with many schools and booster groups.  (You may have to  
> register to read the online
> version)
>
> http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/13874656p-14713964c.html
>
> I wanted to let you know that we stopped using this company after  
> just one order in September
> when it seemed that they were not able to fill orders for most  
> vendors in a timely manner if at all.
> Many schools and booster groups, including some in Davis,  have  
> outstanding orders amounting
> to thousands of dollars for which their accounts have been debited,  
> but for which they have
> received no scrip.   We were very lucky, mainly because we have a  
> relatively long ordering cycle,
> and did not suffer any financial losses, save what appears to be an  
> erroneous shipping charge of
> $9.25.
>
> At the beginning of October, we switched to Great Lakes Scrip, a  
> Michigan company in business
> for 11 years,  and they have completed our recent orders with  
> absolutely no backorders and no
> problems.
>
> Please feel free to e mail me regarding this or any other issue  
> related to scrip!
>
> Amelia Triest
> Scrip Coordinator - DSHS Band Boosters
> (home phone 757-2914)
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> Amelia Triest
> Lecturer
> Department of Music
> University of California
> Davis, CA  95616
> Tel   530.754.7092
> Fax  530.752.0983
> atriest at ucdavis.edu
> http://music.ucdavis.edu
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