OT: How to Pays Bills

Randallw · #2 January 11th, 2007, 07:14 PM

More evidence that Randalls are smart

. Pity we have that reputation as southern hicks, not to mention the shorter form I despise.

President_Elect_Shang · #3 January 11th, 2007, 07:30 PM

I so dislike Verizon that it borders on hate! Since I opened this account I have had nothing but trouble getting voice messages and pictures. I can send pics sometimes and I don't do texts so they may not be working right either. In one case I received a voice message a week and a half after it was left! Mostly I don't get them until several hours later up to a day or two later. I have had the phone exchanged, upgraded, my account deleted and recreated. As soon as this account is finished later this year I am going to Sprint, anyone, but not Verizon!

Atrocities · #4 January 11th, 2007, 07:50 PM

I was able to use a specialized decoding algorithm to unscramble his routing number and account numbers. Any one want to write some bogus checks?

Just send me $2.50 and I will forward the information to you.

So many people worship their cell phones and rely upon them far to much. The cell phone company's are so corrupt in their billing practices that one must hold a duel double doctorate degree in law and book keeping just to understand their service contracts.

Half peek on peek weekend air time, out of area long distance roaming fees. Text messaging, email access, pictures, music download billing, this that and the kitchen sink.

Why can't they have one single simple billing system? Pay one fee and get all the services, no hidden fees, no misrepresented contracts, no surprises in the billing, everything is up front and out in the open so that you know what it is going to cost each and every month.

I remember when you had to pay for your ISP by the minute... oh those damn bogus charges by Prodigy and AOL....

This is why I hate cell phones. They are a huge scam and since so many people rely upon them the scams will only get more complicated, cost more money, and piss more people off, but NO ONE will do anything about it because everyone needs a cell phone now a days....

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 January 11th, 2007, 08:07 PM

Unless you're in emergency services, you don't need a cell phone.

Suicide Junkie · #6 January 11th, 2007, 08:14 PM

Heck, I don't really even want a landline phone that much... damn telemarketers...

You can do almost everything online now anyways.

shinigami · #7 January 11th, 2007, 08:28 PM

I don't carry one myself, but my wife does. I pay for a set amount of minutes per month, nights and weekends are free. The bill is always the same, down to the penny.

President_Elect_Shang · #8 January 11th, 2007, 08:46 PM

Being in the military we found it much easier; and yes cheaper, in the long run to not have a hard line anymore. We use cell phones and keep our number when we move just changing the area code.

narf poit chez BOOM · #9 January 11th, 2007, 11:15 PM

Oh, and Fyron...'Pays Bills'?

Baron Munchausen · #10 January 12th, 2007, 01:56 AM

Cute, but not effective. Since the formula is effectively illegible (no ordinary clerk will be able to figure it out) they can claim you are refusing payment. A more effective older trick was to mess with the billing system by finding technical grounds for claiming small refunds (on the order of a few cents at a time) and then not cashing the checks. This forces the phone company to keep every increasing mountains of records. Of course, that was in the 1960s when "records" actually meant paper. Today I suppose it wouldn't do much damage to make them keep a few more entries in their computerized accounting records.