My ATT experience

Post #37,899 by boxley 5/8/02 9:23:19 AM Reply	My ATT experience Ash, You are wrong to think if you dont pay their bill you cannot get another carrier. I was with AT&T for about 14 yrs when I noticed that a call to Canada that was normally billed at 15cents per minute was now $1.80 a minute. I called and they explained that since I didnt have their new service I would have to pay. While I was protesting the bill I was able to change to verizon smart service, I prepay and get 7cents a minute US 11 cents Canada and 17 cents to Finland for when I find CRC's phone number again. Cost 25 to the local telco to make the change but verizon reimbursed me. ATT send my bill to collections until I told them I would pay a lawyer 2 thousand dollars rather than pay a penny over 15cents per minute. They adjusted the bill and I paid it. my 2centavos thanx, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #37,972 by Ashton 5/8/02 5:03:37 PM Reply	This is different, I think. See.. you were a member of the ATT Club. Yours was a dispute about a patently sleazy 'charge change' (the std Fone BS game IIRC). I think this means that, you indeed had a court case for their having behaved in a Microsoftian way = the court might well have come to same conclusions as they did re the Original Microsoft's behavior. But.. my rip-off had to do with a %^#^@ PUC-SANCTIONED ripoff: for those not* a member. (ie anyone in an emergency? on-the-road? etc) Since the PUC has jurisdiction over setting max ""legal"" fees and ATT has chosen That value for their Standard rate: I believe I would lose, even if the judge might agree it was a rip-off which any 9 year old could identify. The Majesty of that Nation of Laws / fuck the smaller unfunded people, y'know? Correct me if I'm missing something.. though I do believe that some org could make this into an impeachment of the PUC / as not acting in the public interest / as obviously whoring around with Fone Suits, etc. But not on my budget, alas. (Other windmills are apt to have a better tilt-quotient than this Murican Corporate Standard Behavior 2002 IMhO) Ashton :(
Post #38,047 by boxley 5/9/02 9:34:58 AM Reply	Dont pay it right away, dispute the SH*T out of it then negotiate a discount later, offer them 5 bucks for the 20 second call, but in anycase they cannot shut off your long distance to another company. thanks, bill TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS
Post #38,087 by Ashton 5/9/02 1:28:37 PM Reply	Verizon sez they can - but that is debatable - point is moot as, with "automatic deduction" via bank xfer: payment will go out - there's a 30-day buffer to alter that option; no provisions for emergency like.. Corporate Misbehavior. I have to assume that Verizon is not lying about this part. But the prohibition of using any LD service.?. I think may merely be the ultimate revenge, after a series of no-pays of legitimate bills. As I said - moot just now. I'll find an Other way to recapture this from AT&T with Interest, in time. My bill is the evidence. Perhaps I will need the Peruvian legislator to explain it to AT&T ... Ashton Nillo illegitimati non carborundum
Post #38,195 by CRConrad 5/10/02 7:35:20 AM Reply	It's +358 -forty- 57 47 45 eight to my work mobile. HTH! :-)
Post #38,213 by boxley 5/10/02 10:53:46 AM Reply	thank you sir will email to several of my accounts TAM ARIS QUAM ARMIPOTENS

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