hope ya’ll don’t have business with this place……
they have a zero tolerance for delinquencies !!
hope ya’ll don’t have business with this place……
they have a zero tolerance for delinquencies !!
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that has to be a computor snafu. I thought most computor programs had been rewritten so that bills like this were ignored.
it looks like it was this past Jan.
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Still should never been sent.
you're not playing the game :).
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I did that to a cell phone company when I left to go to another one
they sent me a final bill for less than 50 cents
I didn't pay it
I wondered what they would do
They billed me for several months and I ignored them
finally they stopped sending me bills
md, you coming to douds?
A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
If I do, it will be for just a few hours calvin.
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alright, but remember these things are like an eclipse-when they're this close you should go out and have a looksee.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
yessir, I am planning on it , but we all need to make hay while the sun shines .. so to speak.
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I've documented my fun with amex.
ended with me paying off thru a collection agency.
paid the final amount ... even called in to get "todays payoff"
mailed it in ... done ... great.
2 months later ...
get a bill for $21.
OK ... F it.
mailed in $21 that same day.
2 months later ...
bill for around $3.
called ... "That's the interrest due to the delay in billing and receiving"
Me ... OK .. that's nice ... but let's do this once and for all.
What do I own?
"send in that $3 and we'll "freeze" your account"
so .. I do.
2 months later ... bill for something like $.27.
so I called ... told the girl I realized this wasn't her fault ... and I realized I was being recorded. And realized she did indeed have my full name, SSN, and current address.
But when exactly do we stop playing this endless game ... what happens when the amounts drop below the value of one penny?
Then ... asked if she'd ever seen the movie "Falling Down". Micheal Douglas plays a guy who's sick of the worlds sh!t ... goes and buys a shotgun ... and starts shooting all the idgits he comes across in daily life. Told her we had 2 options ...
either she somehow gets this charge removed while I hold ...
or I go gun shopping.
my wife about turned white!
anyways ... 5 minutes later ... a manager gets on and says all charges are dropped ... consider the account paid in full. Told him great ... I can put off gun shopping for a while.
It's been about a year .... no new bills.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
#### that's almost the same story for me, got behind, put on hold, paid it off and then they closed the acc't .......... after 21 yearsbut they instantly gave me a new account and they're all happy nownice crowd over there at AMEX anymore.
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Jeff
I had a similar deal with a loan company once. Lucky for me there was a regional office within 30 miles so I drove there and made them give me the TOTAL amount due RIGHT NOW so that we could settle the loan.
I asked for a payoff on a particular day and showed up there with a MO for that amount, got a receipt and went my merry way thinking, although foolishly, that I'd seen the last of this company.
Yea, a few months later I received another notice for ~$20 -
I got on the phone and although I don't recall my threats I'm sure they were in the same vain as yours, I haven't received anything other then the offer to lend me more money since.
Doug
I had a similiar incedent with sprint when I asked the girl if she realized I lived 30 miles from their corporate HQ and they were #### with a seriously un-stable indvidual.
I was transfered to a manager who asked if I was make a threat, I said no, just an observation.
he fixed my problem and told me if I ever "threatened" them again they would sent the police after me and he was "noting" my file. I asked for his name, he gave it to me before he could realize it and then asked why I wanted it.
I said I was making my own notes.
He then hung up on me lol
you bad!!!
You don't know MY real name, do you ???(-:
Q: How many Microsoft phone help technicians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Please hold, your call is important to us.
and I have your address!
or at least I did, but I got this feeling you're town ain't to big I can't find ya...
But then you haven't tried to over charge me for 3 months in a row wasting about 6 hours of my time.
making my own notes ...
that's great!
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
I played a similar game with AMEX because of added interest. Here's what I did.Buy 3cents worth of gas at a pay at the pump place, Pay them 4cents on line. Stop using the card. They send a monthly statement with 52 cents postage for a year saying you have a 1cent credit.
MY 80 yr old MIL tried something similar, but not so threatening a few months ago.
The police SWAT team was at her door 5 minutes later.
gotta make the call from the underground bunker.
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
They paid 3 dollars and ninety one cents to inform you of a bill for 38 cents ???
Trying to reason with someone who just wants to argue or insult, is not a reasonable pursuit.
Click here for access to the Woodshed Tavern
I got a phone company bill for 3 cents once.
I have a refund check from Sprint for 25 cents.Never saw any point in cashing it.
Trying to reason with someone who just wants to argue or insult, is not a reasonable pursuit.
Click here for access to the Woodshed Tavern
'cause if U don't ... they get to keep it.
what are U ... suddenly rich?
Jeff Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
my wife once got paid .37¢ she smeared some dog poo on it and mailed it back.
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yeah!!!
ain't that the shids LMAO.
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They clearly need a lesson in basic economics ... it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that it doesn't make sense to spend $4 in postage let alone the labor cost to process/mail that item to collect on 38 cents. duh. I would have sent them a quick note pointing this out.
it would seem that .38¢ is worth more to them than their $3.91.
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You think this is bad. Here in PA if you're short a penny on your taxes they'll spend postage to collect it. I just got one such bill the other day. They spent more in postage than what I owed. There's a saying in life and that is: It's all about the money.
speaking of taxes Indiana just sent us a $70 refund on our property taxes which means we paid $210.
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