mountainecho.com

A number of Intermountain Area business people happily signed up for a spot on colorful, illustrated 30+ by 24 inch, glossy, coated maps of unincorporated eastern Shasta County from Shingletown to the south to McArthur, Burney and Fall River to the north. They paid for the maps up front. Why not, the sales lady was pleasant, looked professional and had a good line. She gave each customer a copy of either the map she did for Chico or Redding merchants. She traded out at least one map order for lodging from the Fall River Hotel and one for newspaper advertising. That was in July and August of last year. They were led to believe the maps would be completed in three or four months and the contract called for a specific number of printed maps plus a framed print.
By December many of the customers began to call her to find out where their maps were. The cell phone was still good, but went to an answering machine. The web site remained up until June and then disappeared.