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outcastrc	Aug 30 2006, 06:28 AM
Administrator Posts: 1,150 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: December 13, 2005	:rofl: Somehow I don't think they'd be that nice. I have never not had trouble with every single billing comapany I have ever been with. They just don't care. Here the best one yet. I had a cel phone a while back. Contract was finnished by a long shot. In september I called them up and said to cancel the phone. They of course tried everything under the sun to keep me as a customer. But I persevered and had them close the account. The phone was disconected. I recieve nothing until Jan or Feb of the next year and I get a bill for 250 bucks. All my time for the months since Sept. till then and the radio fees. I call them up and ask whats going on. I haven't been paying my bill they said. Of course not I didn't have a phone. Long story short nothing I said made a lick of a difference. I owed them wether I had a phone or not. There records said I owed, so I owed... I went to a lawyer about it and he said to make a deal, as I would lose unless I spent a fortune fighting it. So furious I made a "deal" They would cancel the 250 if I signed up for another years service. Fine. So I went down and signed the dam paperwork. Not 3 days later I get a call from a collection agency that I owe 450 bucks for breach of contract. Seems the second they got my name on the contract they cancelled it (which they can do) and now I get nailed with a cancellation charge as well as the 250 I still owed. Back to the laywer I go. He's floored and said I was set up. Great. So now what do I do. Pay them the lawyer said. It still wasn't worth fighting them by taking them to court. Now since those days there are laws that have been put into place to keep cel phone comapines in check (sorta) but that didn't stop a lot of people from getting screwed. I consider myself lucky. As I know a lot of people that were nailed, the worse one which was 1600 bucks to pay off cel phone charges. He never even got his phone connected to his account. His story is sad. He got a phone which never worked from day one. So he went back to get a different one. Nope you have to buy one, there no warrenty (less of course you paid extra. Fine how much? 900 bucks they said. No frigging way he said. It the end he stop them to stuff it and keep the broken phone. So he gets a phone call from a collection agency for the tune of 1600 dollars for breach of contract. He lost... Thank goodness theres at least competition and some laws to help and protect us these days.


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