’ Business

TheReview Wednesday, December 12,1990 — BI
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An Ontario company hopes to
use the Christmas rush to snare
_ _€xtra cash.

Classified Directory Publishers
Inc. of Downsview, Ont., is issuing
an invoice in duplicate to Victoria
businesses, apparently hoping a
hard-pressed employee will mis-
take the promotion for a bill and
will pay out the amount.

Sylvia Horvath, managing direc-
tor of the Vancouver Island Better
Business Bureau said there is

: nothing illegal about the form. It’s
just a case of catching some com-
pany off guard to fool it into
paying out perhaps hundreds of

FLAMINGOES BRIGHT-
ENED up the front yard
at Stelly’s secondary
School in Central Saa-
nich last week as the
crew from CFAX radio
brought out their pro-
motional material to
help Daryl Drew cele-
“brate his birthday.

News and Views
swiiches to new
bulletin in Review

The Saanich Peninsula Chamber
of Commerce has announced it
will trade in its monthly newsletter
for a one-page news bulletin in
The Review, starting next month.

Chamber general manager Mari-
lyn Lee said a full page will be
purchased in The Review each
month instead of continuing the
News and Views newsletter.

Featured in the one-page news
item will be Chamber of Com-
merce news and announcements
for meetings.

Also included will be ongoing
advertisements for special events
and Business Infocentre news, she
said.

“We will be asking advertisers
to help us with the costs for this
brave venture, by purchasing dedi-
cated space around our newsletter
for the full year,” Lee added.

With a circulation of about
13,000 issues each week, advertis-
ing in The Review will reach a
much larger potential market than
in the News and Views newsletter,
she said.

Lee said a quarterly “special
interests” letter will also be sent to
Chamber of Commerce members
through 1991.

dollars.

The BBB is receiving several
calls a day from companies on the
Island. They are questioning the
company invoice which they
sometimes receive several copies
of.

It’s a professional-looking bill
which includes a logo of open
yellow pages, but carries a note at
the bottom: “This is a solicitation
for the order of services and not a
bill, invoice or statement of
account due.”

A stamp on the bill reads:
“Final Notice.”

Don't pay directory invoices as bills

It is actually a solicitation for
advertising in a directory of the
Downsview company and is not
dissimilar to junk mail received at
homes from companies and per-
sonalities telling them they may
have won a million dollars, Hor-
vath said.

Businesses should read and
understand the contract or invoice.
If they are contemplating any
directory advertising they should
check it out with the Better Busi-
ness Bureau.

Phone the Better Business
Bureau for more information at
386-6348.

Island Farms awarded for cream cheese

North Saanich dairy firm
Islands Farms has earned the
honor this year of being named a
top producer of creamed cottage

cheese, sources said.

Earlier in the year, Island Farms

picked up an award for the best
cottage cheese in the region at the

Pacific National Exhibition in
Vancouver.

The firm also earned a silver
medal for its creamy white cottage
cheese at the Canadian National
Exhibition in Toronto, sources
said.

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