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CABLE SERVICE
Shaw strategy slammed

Dear Editor:

Under the guise of service, Shaw
Cable is invading the privacy of
my home. Apparently I should be
happy that they are going to chan-
nel a service, that I do not want,
into my home and then place the
onus on me to discontinue this
service.

Shaw Cable’s decision to employ
this marketing strategy is fun-
damentally disrespectful of its
subscribers, Shaw is well aware
that a certain number of
subscribers will neglect to decline

this service for a variety of reasons
and that many of those same
subscribers will regretfully pay the
surcharge when they receive the
bill. This is chicanery in the market
place that will harm most those
individuals least able to protect
themselves.

Ar honorable marketing strate-
gy would be to discontinue this
free gift at the appointed time and
allow subscribers who desire the
service te arrange for continua-
tion. However, this choice would
seriously decrease Shaw’s pro-
jected income from the early mon-

ths of the service: income inflated
by the subscription fees charged to
unwary consumers.

I see uo reason why I should
have to protect myself, in the
privacy of my own home, from
predators in the marketplace. I,
for one, will not support such
marketing tactics and will not
subscribe to the service only
because of the strategy Shaw has
chosen to market it. Tell me why
such subtle thievery is permitted?

Carclyn Iker
North Vancouver

Real estate board should be re-educated

Dear Editor: ;

In reference to your article
“Housing Market Sizzies”’ in Fri-
day’s North Shore News dated
March 24, it seems the Real Estate
Board spokesman has been fed a
lot of hogwash when citing the
criteria for property assessments.

As homeowners whose assess-
ments and property taxes have
been skyrocketing since 1981, as a
result of artificially inflated house
prices, we would like to set the re-
cord straight.

In the past 10 years or so, the
sole criterion for assessing residen-
tial property has been, and still is,
artificially inflated land values. We
ought to know, since not one
assessor showed up at our door
since 1981, and only after pro-
testing vigorously in the last few
years did he visit us last June, only
to confirm our suspicions.
Depreciation and age were ignored
and the huge increase was arrived
at before his visit.

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If Miss Broadfoot is correct,
why then should an old shack be
assessed for over $300,000? Fur-
thermore, flipping has been going
on ground us for years and is still
going on. The Real Estate industry
should stop brainwashing the
public, for after all, who stands to
profit from it?

If we accept the board's story as
fact, then perhaps we have been
unjustifiably gouged for too many
years by the assessor, and a roll-
back is due.

As for Mayor Campbell's
statement (as quoted in Doug Col-
lins’ column of March 22) that
“*he’s sorry if some people have to
lose their homes,"’ it reeks of
discrimination and is
undemocratic.

Those who choose to stay in
their own homes should not be pe-
nalized, for they are not in the
competition. ‘‘No one can deter-
mine what is too much...” says
Mitten, and then he goes on to say

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“the real estate industry has
educated the public to know what
to accept and what not to accept.”’
They have no business interfer-
ing with the market in the first
place and causing havoc to our
assessments. Maybe they are the
ones who should be re-educated.

J. Siebert
North Vancouver

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