When decent people get screwed over, this is the result!
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> A little background: Neiman-Marcus, if you don't know already, is
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> a very expensive store; I.e., they sell your typical $8.00 T-shirt for
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> $50.00.
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> Let's let them have it! THIS IS A TRUE STORY!
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> My daughter and I had just finished a salad at a Neiman-Marcus
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> Cafe In Dallas, and we decided to have a small dessert. Because
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> both of us are such cookie lovers, we decided to try the 'Neiman-
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> Marcus cookie.' It was So excellent that I asked if they would give
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> me the recipe, and the waitress said with a small frown, 'I'm afraid
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> not, but you can buy The Recipe.' Well, I asked how much, and
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> she responded, ' Only two fifty - it's a Great deal!' I agreed to that,
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> and told her to just add it to my Tab.
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> Thirty days later, I received my VISA statement, and the Neiman-
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> Marcus Charge was $285.00! I looked again, and I remembered I
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> had only spent $9.95 for two salads and about $20.00 for a scarf.
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> As I glanced at the bottom of the statement, it said,
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> 'Cookie Recipe-$250.00.' That was Outrageous! I called Neiman's
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> Accounting Department and told them the waitress said it was
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> 'two-fifty', which clearly does not mean 'two hundred and fifty
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> dollars' by any reasonable interpretation of the phrase.
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> Neiman-Marcus refused to budge. They would not refund my money
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> because, according to them, 'What the waitress told you is not our
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> problem. You have already seen the Recipe. We absolutely will not
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> refund your money at this point.' I explained to the Accounting
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> Department lady the criminal statutes which govern fraud in the State
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> of Texas . I threatened to report them to the Better Business Bureau
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> and the Texas Attorney General's office for engaging in fraud. I was
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> basically told, 'Do what you want. Don't bother thinking of how you
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> can get even, and don't bother trying to get any of your money Back.'
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> I just said, Okay, you folks got my $250, and now I'm going to have
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> $250 worth of fun. I told her that I was going to see to it that every
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> Cookie Lover in the United States with an e-mail account has a $250
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> cookie recipe From Neiman-Marcus...for free. She replied, 'I wish you
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> wouldn't do this.' I said, 'Well, perhaps you should have thought of
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> that before you ripped me off!' and slammed down the phone.
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> So here it is!
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> Please, please, please pass it on to everyone you can possibly think of.
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> I paid $250 for this, and I don't want Neiman-Marcus to EVER make
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> Other penny off of this recipe!
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> Okay, I know all of you like cookies !!
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> NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES (Recipe may be halved)
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> 2 cups butter
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> 24 oz. Chocolate chips
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> 4 cups flour
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> 2 cups brown sugar
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> 2 tsp. Soda
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> 1 tsp. Salt
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> 2 cups sugar
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> 1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
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> 5 cups blended oatmeal
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> 4 eggs
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> 2 tsp. Baking powder
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> 2 tsp. Vanilla
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> 3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)
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> Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder. Cream
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> the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together with
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> flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda . Add chocolate chips,
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> Hershey bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches apart
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> on a cookie Sheet. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees.
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> Makes 112 cookies.
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> PLEASE READ THE RECIPE AND SEND IT TO EVERY
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> PERSON YOU KNOW WHO HAS AN E-MAIL ADDRESS!
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> THIS IS REALLY TERRIFIC!!
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> Even if the people on your e-mail list don't eat sweets send it to
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> them and ask them to pass it on. Let's make sure we get this
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> ladies $250.00 worth. Enjoy the cookies, they really are good .

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I heard about this as an unban legand years ago.