Reply #8: They're morans! [View All]

[BiggJawn]

(sorry, bowens43, but they are)

I had a billing program that was 38 cents to connect, pennies a minute. Sounded good to them, I guess, little did they know that some months they would be billing me for ZERO, other months maybe $4 or so.

So I let an 84 cent bill roll over a month. They shut me off, I paid it up, asked them to turn it back on. A WEEK later (after being promised re-connect in 24 hours) I still had no LD service. ANOTHER hour on the blower getting THAT straightened out.

OK, so it's back on. A coupla $1 months go by, I don't make any calls for 2 months, then I notice that I was getting billed on my local carrier's bill for MCI at $1.87 a MINUTE!!!

I call the local carrier and say "WTF?" the take it off. I call MCI and get informed that my service was cancelled the previous October, 6 months ago. "OK, so why wasn't it turned back on?" "We don't do that. We cancel you, you're out." "OK, why was I told that I was being re-connected?" "Beats me..." "OK, then why, if I was cancelled, did I get bills for November, December, January, and February?" " I don't know." "OK, so my account status is closed, and there's NO balnce due?" "That's right" "OK, let's just LEAVE it that way, and I'll go with another comapny that's not so incompetant, OK?" "Uh, I guess so...sorry you had so much trouble...."

And this month, they're trying to dun me for the $1.87 a minute calls again.....Fuck 'em, it ain't worth an HOUR of my time trying to get clear from that error. Cheaper to pay it and avoid getting turned over to a collection agency. What a way to make money. Wish I could send people arbitrary bills and hope I get pennies on the dollar...

So I go with CenturyTel, which isn't a whole lot better. I thought I had 5 cents a minute, but they were billing me 28. Turns out I can't get 5 cents...They fixed it, though.....

Telephones....Most the time it's nuisances like telemarketers flying by night under the "Do Not Call" list radar or drunks dialing wrong....What a useless, abused invention....