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        "id": 1415644,
        "msgid": "still-fed-up-1447899208",
        "date": "1999-09-27 00:00:00",
        "title": "Still fed up",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Still fed up Have you tried buying a starter pack phone card lately? Satelindo states that they are completely out of stock. They advise going to the retail stores. Last month you could buy only the starter pack that had 500 pulses and pay about Rp 1.2 million (the official stamped price is Rp 600,000 plus VAT). Rather too many pulses for most people and certainly too expensive for the average budget. Recently, the very same starter packs came with a 100-pulse card inside for about Rp 750,000.",
        "content": "<p>Still fed up<\/p>\n<p>Have you tried buying a starter pack phone card lately?<br>\nSatelindo states that they are completely out of stock. They<br>\nadvise going to the retail stores.<\/p>\n<p>Last month you could buy only the starter pack that had 500<br>\npulses and pay about Rp 1.2 million (the official stamped price<br>\nis Rp 600,000 plus VAT). Rather too many pulses for most people<br>\nand certainly too expensive for the average budget.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the very same starter packs came with a 100-pulse<br>\ncard inside for about Rp 750,000. That's right, someone had<br>\nillegally opened all the packs and replaced the 500-pulse with<br>\n100-pulse starter cards. Where did they suddenly come from? They<br>\nwere sold out a month ago at Satelindo, their officials<br>\ndistributors and local outlets. Can you see the picture now? Keep<br>\nin mind that places like Roxy Mas have a veritable surfeit of<br>\nstock.<\/p>\n<p>It seems rather obvious, even to the average dolt, that some<br>\npeople conspired many months ago to buy and stockpile all starter<br>\ncard packets from 100 to 500 pulses and create an artificial<br>\nmonopoly. Somebody is making a small fortune off of the public.<br>\nBy the way, Satelindo has only starter packets of 1,000 pulses<br>\navailable for sale.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have been in contact with Satelindo and am slowly<br>\nworking my way up the chain of command in order to get some sort<br>\nof explanation, an exercise in futility, mind you. Months ago<br>\nthey knew that these packs would be sold out, but they did<br>\nnothing and kept quiet. Where I come from, the district attorney<br>\nand Internal Revenue Service would have already stepped in to<br>\ninvestigate a national criminal conspiracy of this nature.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, Satelindo and the other two satellite<br>\nproviders have a legal and ethical responsibility not only to do<br>\ntheir own investigation, internally and externally, but also to<br>\nreacquire these thousands of misappropriated numbers for their<br>\ncustomers. I am madder now and still will not take it.<\/p>\n<p>BRIEN D.<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/still-fed-up-1447899208",
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    "sponsor": "Okusi Associates",
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