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  1. #1
    William Sheehan, Jr.
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    I activate an ATT 875 card for data on 2/26. They send me a "welcome"
    message on my ATT wifi connect software. My first bill arrives today and
    they charged me .15 for a text message received. Yeah it's only 15 cents,
    but the pricks send it to me and I'm afraid not to read it because it may
    have important information about my account, and these pricks charge me to
    read it.

    Way to make sure I hate you people two weeks after I start to do business
    with you ATT!!

    I had thought abut converting my 4 phones over to ATT from Verizon, but not
    now!!





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  2. #2
    Kevin Weaver
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    Re: Can you belive these ATT pricks?

    "William Sheehan, Jr." <[email protected] dot att dot net> wrote in
    message news:[email protected]...
    >I activate an ATT 875 card for data on 2/26. They send me a "welcome"
    >message on my ATT wifi connect software. My first bill arrives today and
    >they charged me .15 for a text message received. Yeah it's only 15 cents,
    >but the pricks send it to me and I'm afraid not to read it because it may
    >have important information about my account, and these pricks charge me to
    >read it.
    >
    > Way to make sure I hate you people two weeks after I start to do business
    > with you ATT!!
    >
    > I had thought abut converting my 4 phones over to ATT from Verizon, but
    > not now!!
    >
    >


    Call them. They told me any thing from them is free. I just had mine turned
    off and they sent me one. I called them and they fixed it to where I won't
    get anymore from them.

    Your paying for them. Call and complain.




  3. #3
    Larry
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    Re: Can you belive these ATT pricks?

    "William Sheehan, Jr." <[email protected] dot att dot net>
    wrote in
    news:[email protected]:

    > I activate an ATT 875 card for data on 2/26. They send me a "welcome"
    > message on my ATT wifi connect software. My first bill arrives today
    > and they charged me .15 for a text message received. Yeah it's only 15
    > cents, but the pricks send it to me and I'm afraid not to read it
    > because it may have important information about my account, and these
    > pricks charge me to read it.
    >
    > Way to make sure I hate you people two weeks after I start to do
    > business with you ATT!!
    >
    > I had thought abut converting my 4 phones over to ATT from Verizon,
    > but not now!!
    >
    >
    >


    Simply send them a check for 15c less than they want with an explanatory
    note you refuse to pay for the company's spam, now and in the future.

    This will cause endless headaches in accounting for the 15 cents each
    month and they'll finally remove it.

    I used to have a phone on an awful rural telephone system. It worked
    about 75% of the time. Luckily, they used to send this big farmers'
    almanac calendar to everyone. I hung it over the phone with a red magic
    marker on a string. Every time I picked up the phone and it was dead or
    unusable, I marked that day with a big red X, signifying I wasn't going
    to pay for that day. The calendar was included every month with my
    check for only those days the phone worked and a boilerplate instruction
    on how it was calculated. My neighbors all started to do the same thing
    after seeing my red-marked calendar when they visited. Now faced with
    multiple players who refused to pay for no service and the expansion of
    the game, our phone service improved vastly with less X's each month,
    which is all we asked for in the first place...telephone service.

    Of course, after the local newspaper story of our tactic hit the street,
    the whole telephone company was under the gun to fix it....(c;

    It's called "consumer activism". You don't have to bend over and take
    it in the ass from ATT or anyone else as long as YOU are the ones
    signing the checks!




  4. #4
    DevilsPGD
    Guest

    Re: Can you belive these ATT pricks?

    In message <[email protected]> Larry
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    >This will cause endless headaches in accounting for the 15 cents each
    >month and they'll finally remove it.


    It will? Most companies have more or less completely automated billing
    systems, using a credit/debit system.

    There is no headache for anyone but a computer, the best you're doing is
    possibly annoying whoever does the data entry (who can't use the "paid
    in full" button)

    Obviously you should dispute the charge, but that's a customer service
    issue, and won't involve any human from accounting.

    >It's called "consumer activism". You don't have to bend over and take
    >it in the ass from ATT or anyone else as long as YOU are the ones
    >signing the checks!


    Indeed, but the days of companies manually working out each bill each
    month are long since over, short-paying won't do any good unless you
    actively complain in the process (and if you do, short-paying a bill
    won't make *any* difference at all, unless it happens to be your final
    bill, in which case short-paying will save you a lot of hassle trying to
    pry a refund check out of said company)



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