Don’t Get Caught In The i Area Code 809 9 Scam HONESDALE (Wayne Co.) Remember when people were getting outrageous charges for 900 numbers? This is a new version of that old scam. How can you protect yourself? Don’t answer e-mails, phone calls, pagers, or web pages which ask you to call an “809” phone number. What happens if you call an “809” numbers? You will find a very ugly surprise on your next phone bill. Unsuspecting folks have been charged more than $24,000. Yes, that $24,000! The National Fraud Informa tion Center says this fraud is spreading quickly and costing victims a great deal of money. There can be several variations but all of them operate basically the same. How The Scam Works You receive a message on your answering machine or on your pager, which asks you to call a number beginning with the 809 area code. The reason you’re asked to call varies; it can be to TRI-COLOR BUNK BED N 3 inch post, DISTRIBUTOR'S REFUSALj „ i JVh 11 Last * Ij29^s^ COUNTRY PINE \ 6 PC. 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Ret. r~ ■ n $898.95 SPECIAL $ 279 95 , Stores In: LANCASTER • YORK • CARLISLE STORE HOURS: Mon.-Fri. 9-9 • Sat. 9-6; Sunday 12 to 5 PM * No Refunds *No Exchange* For purchases with a check, bring FINANCING '** • Cash i Carry drivers llcanaa and phone mimbera AVAILABLE Not responsible (or typographical errors We reserve the right to substitute gift items How Can You Protect Yourself? Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 24,2001-B5 On Being a Farm Wife (and other hazards) Joyce Bupp It’s a disease. It is a disease, by gosh. And it’s an annual thing, just like the flu. Our favorite retail places all know that, and they’re trading on our seasonal weak ness. A practice otherwise known as “marketing.” While I’m not normally an impulse buyer or spender of any retail significance, a layout of this merchandise never fails to trip my trigger, knock my re solve, send me to my consumer knees. Which is the reason that more than a dozen little packs of “marketing” have been added to the inventory of previous accu mulations waiting in a large plastic container hibernating at a chilly spot in the basement. Garden peas and radishes, sunflowers and zinnias, cosmos, morning glories, sweet peas... My name is Joyce. And I need help. It’s all the doing of those en ticing garden merchandise lay outs. Seeds. Bulbs. Plants. Pot ting soil. Gardening gloves, peat pots. But it’s those “10 for $1” seed packet sales that trigger my complete downfall. Those little packets with just enough seeds to give you a small crops of not the newest, latest, biggest or most ballyhooed new introduc tions but generally long-estab lished, dependable varieties of familiar veggies and flowers. Why do I even buy or plant radish seed, for instance? Rad ishes can be had at the super market, ready to slice and scat ter on a salad, for. Jess, one area chain was selling three bags of them for a buck, just last week. Even 10-cent seed packets of them are probably no bargain, when you begin to calculate the time needed to get a spot ready to plant, tuck them in the ground, wait a couple of weeks and then hope the tiny, under ground, radish “riddleresworms” haven’t tunneled through the m MARTIN ELECTRIC PLANTS • Manufacturer of: DIESEL, LP GAS, NATURAL GAS, PTO Automatic & Manual Start Systems USED UNITS ALSO AVAILABLE Call Us For All Your Generator Needs! MARTIN ELECTRIC PLANTS 280 Pleasant Valley Rd., Ephrata, PA 17522-8620 800-713-7968 Tel: 717-733-7968 Fax: 717-733-1981 chubby, red roots like microscop ic moles. On the other hand, when an early, warm, sunny afternoon clobbers me with a raging case of seed sickness, a dime-pack of radish seeds is a real cheap anti dote. Plus, if you’ve even tasted a freshly-pulled radish, still cold from the soil in which it grew, you know no prepackaged rad ish even comes close in crisp, tin gly taste. Which is why there is not one, but three, packs of radish seeds here on inventory. 1 need help. Nor had I planned to plant garden peas. Sugar snaps, maybe, but not shelling peas. With snap peas, you can pick a bowlful and have a bowlful for your effort. After picking and shelling garden peas, you might have a cup of results for your ef fort. Or two cups with a lot of ef fort. So why is there not one, but four packs of garden peas here? Because one pack would only plant a tiny short row some where along the edge of the flow er bed on some early, enticing planting day. Four packs those 10-cent jobs will make the effort more worthwhile. Canned peas are blah. Frozen peas are good. Fresh peas are manna from the gods. When I yanked off the cover of the storage container to put the latest treasures away until planting season, I came face to face with another batch of “10 for $1” picked up just a few weeks ago. And forgotten about. Which is why we also now have four packs of flowering sweat pea seeds. Four kinds of sun flowers. Eight packs of zinnias. Several kinds of melons, squash, cucumbers. Single packs of a whole bunch of stuff. Help! I need help. Starting about the middle of April would be a good time. Bring your own garden tools. I’ll supply the seeds. V *
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