[MV] VXi TalkPro Xpress or VXi TalkPro?

[Martin Markoe]

Whoever you are, you are an interesting fraud. You sign your name Richard Ager
e-mail now comes on behalf of Andrew Taylor. Yes, for you the Internet is not a
friendly place. Please feel free to take your business anywhere you would like.
We do honest business and have for nine years on the Internet. Yes, you do get
kooks and people who are paranoid. But anyone who is willing to take basic
precautions is no more likely to be a victim than they are in their own home.

Perhaps, someday we will find out who you really are. To date we have not been
victims of fraud because we do protect ourselves and intend to keep doing so.
Also, we are very modern in that we do not believe in wasting paper and killing
trees and as such all correspondence including invoices are transmitted
electronically. Considering you use a spoofed IP address and a nonsense e-mail
address in our view you are a fraud.

Sincerely,
Martin Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvoice-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
> [mailto:macvoice-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On 
> Behalf Of Andrew Taylor
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 7:26 AM
> To: A place to discuss speech recognition on Macintosh.
> Subject: RE: [MV] VXi TalkPro Xpress or VXi TalkPro?
> 
> At 11:31 AM +0100 10/20/04, Richard Smith wrote:
> >On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Martin Markoe wrote:
> >
> >>  The TalkPro, TalkPro Xpress and the TalkPro USB use electret 
> >> microphone  elements. These require a small bias voltage, 
> >> approximately 3 volts, to  allow the elements to vibrate 
> at the sound 
> >> of your voice. The voltage can  come from the ring of the 
> soundcard, 
> >> from a USB sound pod (an external
> >>  soundcard) or from an auxiliary battery box. The Translator is a 
> >> voltage  equalizer in that it will increase or decrease 
> the voltage 
> >> to the proper  amount. Almost all soundcards today provide the 
> >> correct voltage and in our  opinion the Translator is really only 
> >> necessary for PC SoundBlaster  soundcards.
> >  >
> >>  Our advice for tried and true Mac use, the VXI TalkPro Xpress 
> >> coupled to an  Andrea USB sound pod. The Andrea pod has a slightly 
> >> stronger gain that the  Mac computers prefer. See these at:
> >>  
> http://www.emicrophones.com/microphones/prod_details.asp?prodID=047
> >>  
> http://www.emicrophones.com/microphones/prod_details.asp?prodID=003
> >
> >Thanks for the advice.  I did order these products from your 
> website, 
> >but you later cancelled my order, calling me a credit card 
> fraudster, 
> >and saying you wouldn't accept my order unless I changed my 
> ISP and my 
> >email address.  So I will now buy the same products elsewhere, and I 
> >advise anyone else thinking of purchasing from your company to do 
> >likewise.
> >
> >--
> >Richard
> 
> While you are free to express your opinion, please do 
> realized that the internet is not a friendly place for 
> businesses accepting credit cards. Identity theft is real and 
> credit card companies are continuing to get more aggressive 
> with their policies to combat it. 
> Rather than chastising and criticizing when you get a 
> rejection such as this, consider it "friendly warning" that 
> questionable activity is occurring "close" to you and take 
> action to protect yourself. You could find other companies 
> drawing from the same "fraud detection" 
> services rejecting your orders as well.
> --
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