Verizon Wireless wanted to charge me $3.00 to pay my bill with cash.

[Webster Green]

I usually pay my bill online, but decided to stop in one of their stores to pay my bill down. They said they only take cash. I said fine. Then they told me there would be a $3.00 "convenience fee". I laughed at them and walked out of the store.

This visit was one of my better ones. Usually, for one reason or another, I storm out cussing them out and flipping the bird. The stores are damn near useless, other than to sell you a phone. After that, they're done with your sorry ass.

Fucking greedy assholes! :eyes:

[Drale]

1. The Verizon store near us is really helpful

it was the AT&T people that used to do that to me. Those people are idiots and it always seemed like bad customer service was a qualification for employment.

[Webster Green]

5. Yeah, I've been on AT&T and Sprint at various times.

They all suck, but Verizon has the best coverage where I am, so I stay with them.

[KansDem]

2. "...for one reason or another, I storm out cussing them out and flipping the bird."

Well, consider the $3.00 to be a "bird-flipping fee." ;)

[Webster Green]

6. Heh!

I think I'm 86'd from one of the local stores. I had a beef with the salesman (also the manager) who claimed a 150' range for the MiFi2000 wireless hot spot thingie when he sold it to me. The thing is lucky to do 60', so I got in his shit about it, and he insisted that he was correct. I told him I have a 100 foot tape measure and my netbook in my truck...let's check it out. He refused, of course, and I went off on him. :smoke:

[sarcasmo]

8. Don't feel bad I am barred from Home Depot. One of their big red carts went flying into our

car a day after we had it back from the body shop and the manager claimed it was an "act of god" . Being Atheist the "act of god " excuse almost got me arrested.

[Turbineguy]

3. That way they can

charge some other shmuck $3.00 to make change.

[Hannah Bell]

4. a fee to pay cash. ridiculous. there's already fees to pay with credit or checks.

everyone is being channeled into online payment directly from bank accounts. which i believe essentially means no privacy.

[Clovis Sangrail]

9. isn't a fee to pay with cash illegal?

I could easily see a 'convenience fee' for using the store rather than mailing it in - but isn't cash legal tender for "all debts public and private" ?

[Webster Green]

10. Fucked if I know.

I've got 3 cell phones and a wireless hot spot device on my account, so they get a good chunk of change from me every month. I couldn't believe they wanted to try to squeeze another 3 bucks out of me. :wtf:

[Sherman A1]

18. Precisely

I believe that you have hit the nail on the head.

[formercia]

20. That's the plan

That way, the boys can track your every move. Everything you purchase or search the Net for, will be entered into their vast 'Terrorist' database and the computer will analyze your movements and determine if you pose a risk to 'Society'. Once you are flagged, the agents of the 'System' will monitor you and step on your neck if you so much as sneeze. Every currency transaction will be compared with your declared income to ferret out possible sources of illicit or barter revenue.

Making everyone go to electronic transaction just makes their job so much easier.

[liberal N proud]

7. Take in 300 pennies and watch the balk

[Webster Green]

11. No way.

I'm hoarding those for the copper value.

[Tesha]

19. (Nowadays, pennies are only copper-plated zinc.) (NT)

[Ilsa]

15. Hell, pay the entire bill in nickels and pennies if that's how they're gonna be. nt

[Webster Green]

16. That's tempting actually.

That would be pretty funny.

[lbrtbell]

21. DO IT!!!

When you put them on the counter, be sure to spill some of them on the employee, so s/he has to pick them up! :rofl:

[LiberalEsto]

12. Car rental companies don't take cash either

Waaaaay back in the early 1970s, I handled Avis car rentals at a small regional airport. Their policy was "Credit cards only. No cash."

One day one of the wealthiest guys in town wanted to rent a car from us, cash. We told him sorry, can't do it. He even had me call our manager, who was at another office, and was told the same thing. He couldn't believe it, because just about everybody kowtowed to him, and he stubbornly refused to get a credit card. He stomped off to the Hertz guys down the hall and was told the same thing. Millionaire versus corporation. Corporation wins.

That was my first encounter with corporate bullshit.

[Webster Green]

14. Oh yeah, I ran into that plenty of times.

I'm 64, and I've never had a credit card, and never will. I remember having to resort to those "Rent a Wreck" places to rent cars.

[lbrtbell]

22. Some won't take debit cards, either

I don't have or want credit cards, but Thrifty got all pissy about it. So I went to another rental company, and got better service, anyway.

[WinkyDink]

23. "Not taking cash" is not the OP's story; it was essentially BEING TAXED for paying cash.

I would not have left without pursuing this WAAAY far.

[lynne]

26. It's actually a service fee. The store is not set up to take cash payments -

- as everything is done electronically. They don't keep change - don't take daily deposits to the corner bank - cash payments are more difficult to track in the event of a question or problem, etc. So they charge a service fee to discourage cash payments and to offset the extra time/expense for them to process cash payments.

Place I used to work for did the same thing. As cash payments incur a financial cost to the business to process them, they can legally charge a service fee to accept them. I don't like it but I understand it.

[Webster Green]

27. This store said they only take cash.

Cash was the only option.

Weird.

[Clovis Sangrail]

13. I hate Verizon

I had Verizon for years.
They had good prices, great coverage, and were the most infuriating company I ever dealt with.
I finally left because I was willing to pay more to somebody else to *not have to call up twice a year to dispute some outrageous overcharge.

Now that T-Mobile is being gobbled up by AT&T I'm going to have to look at changing to something else again.
My wife has Verizon and the fact that she's pretty much always got signal is pulling me back towards them.

[elocs]

17. I noticed that last week when I was in Verizon. The DMV here in WI charges a counter fee

for the pleasure of their company in order to encourage people to do things online.

[LupinSansei72]

24. i hate Verizon..

I used to be a happy FiOS customer, until Verizon told me that they never received the money I gave them as part of a monthly plan from my checking account--and I have the actual cashed check to prove it! "Sorry Lupin, we can't find anything in our system about your supposed payment, so we cut off your service..how about you pasy us some more?" FUCK NO, I told them to cancel my FiOS altogether and went to the local cable company.

Now some collection agency said THEY had made the payment arrangement, yet Verizon has no record of them doing so, and the agency has not sent me anyhting in writing. I'm not paying them jack shit until they ca get this mess sorted :grr:

[rg302200]

25. That sounds like an agent store and not

a corporate Verizon store...same thing happened to me. I went into the store down from my house, because much like you, I usually pay online but this time I just thought I would stop in. They wanted to charge me 5 bucks. I got upset, left and drove across town to another Verizon store and asked them if they would charge me. They said no and informed me that "agent" stores (think franchise) may charge you to pay your bill in cash but corporate stores never will. So now I only go to corporate Verizon stores.