Comments on: Ringing Up Big Charges For "Free" Tones

Charges For Unordered, Unwanted Services Popping Up On Cell Phone Bills — And They Can Be Tough To Stop

[brianbwb-2009]

How about a story on these people like

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And others who get paid to fill these discussion threads with very unwelcome porn site spam, like,

pubspa.com
herpeslove.com
sugarmommamatch.com
tallmingle.com

and other such perv sites that so far CBS has been unable to curb?

CBS has an efficient sensor bot that deletes the word *** without fail, surely after receiving enough complaints they could input the names of the offending websites in the database, then, since they can no longer get their sites mentioned, there is no reason to bring their garbage to these discussions...

[nothappyatall]

"Verizon said that this was an outside carrier and they were not responsible for these charges," Anderson said.

And in Dolan''s case: "They told me they wouldn''t take it off and they couldn''t stop it."

OH? then that''s when I''d tell the little lady on the other end of the phone to take her service and shove it because I was cancelling my phone right then and there and will not pay the bill.

[occams_taser]

A few years ago they used to change your long distance service! Mine got changed to MCI''s bend-over-and-take-it-up-the-rear plan (without my permission), and I was getting charged 57 cents per minute for calls from California to Colorado!

[occams_taser]

but the right wing nutballs still insist capitalism works best without regulation!

[ioweign]

everything in your pathetic life is not bush fault...got get help

Posted by jwind11 at 11:28 PM : Feb 22, 2008

Hey - they are going to have some hefty legal bills because they listened to Bush and his wiretapping BS and the need cash now - well at least Qwest didn''t...

[jwind11]

These people being "crammed" are encountering the workings of the "Ferengi" economy as practiced and preached by the Great Emperor Bush II and the entire Bush family.

One of the thousands of rules for profit from the Ferengi bible, The Rules of Acquisition, states that it is OK for you to cheat someone out of their "profit" even if it means sharing a part of your profit with a third party (in this case, the phone companies). If caught, just use the tried and true excuse "IT''''S JUST BUSINESS", and move on to the next victim, because as long as the Great Emperor Bush II sits on the throne in the Oval Office, and the neocon Fascist Nazi GOP can continue to intimidate the evil, cowardly Whimpo-crats, you have nothing to fear!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!
sig heil, McCain???

Posted by walt1944

everything in your pathetic life is not bush fault...got get help

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Posted by walt1944 at 09:57 PM : Feb 22, 2008
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i guess liberals will always whine just about anything,,cant afford it??? DONT BUY IT..dumb arse..your philosophy in life came from a tv show??

[libsrweak]

My ridiculous cell phone bill affects my life far more than baseball player steroid use. Why isn''''t the House of Representatives working on this?


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Posted by downtowner97 at 09:04 PM : Feb 22, 2008
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and they said liberals hate big government..

[jlwesley]

I started getting monthly data download charges on my Verizon cell bill, nobody at Verizon could tell me what they were for, or remove them for me. They said it was something that I must have committed for and it was my problem, so I would have to contact the billing company and straighten it out, then I could not contact the billing company, I left messages, sent emails, nothing.

When I refused to pay those charges Verizon disconnected my cell phones and billed me for early termination of the contract, now every month we get dunned by a differant collection agency, I tell them to sue us but they wont do it. I guess I will have to sue them to stop.

One good thing, I switched to Cingular now AT&T, best service I have ever had, should have gone with them 15 years ago instead of spending all of that time with Screwrizon.

[martin9p2]

Verizon offered me a text messaging "disocunt" plan, and I said "No", I don''t want a text messaging plan. So they put me down as "Pay as you go". Bull-F-***! Then they decided to send me a "Premium Message" for about $20, and said I had to pay the bill because I hadn''t agreed to a discount messaging plan. Bull-F''ing-***, I says to those ***, and after about three months I got the charge taken off my bill. I didn''t switch carriers because they''re ALL out to get me.

[excoachken]

It Cowardly Cowboy Corporatism at it''s finest. How many more days of this Moron do we have to put up with?????

[walt1944-2009]

These people being "crammed" are encountering the workings of the "Ferengi" economy as practiced and preached by the Great Emperor Bush II and the entire Bush family.

One of the thousands of rules for profit from the Ferengi bible, The Rules of Acquisition, states that it is OK for you to cheat someone out of their "profit" even if it means sharing a part of your profit with a third party (in this case, the phone companies). If caught, just use the tried and true excuse "IT''S JUST BUSINESS", and move on to the next victim, because as long as the Great Emperor Bush II sits on the throne in the Oval Office, and the neocon Fascist Nazi GOP can continue to intimidate the evil, cowardly Whimpo-crats, you have nothing to fear!

SIG HEIL, BUSH!!!!
sig heil, McCain???

[ms38654ob]

I have a website that is very similar to a "free ringtone" site''s name, minus one letter. I get angry letters all the time from morons who can''t spell, who were scammed by this company into getting the "free" ringtone which ends up costing $2.95 a week. The problem they have with the phone company is that in the very fine print of the agreement they have to agree to in order to be charged is the detail, but nobody reads that stuff so they think they''re really getting something for free.

I use the standard telephone ring sound on my phone. I can''t imagine paying for something that just indicates I''m getting a call. What a racket!

[downtowner97]

My ridiculous cell phone bill affects my life far more than baseball player steroid use. Why isn''t the House of Representatives working on this?

[hokuto1]

"Who do these people think they are, Verizon and the rest of them?"

Who are they? Why they''re the Great Patriotic Corporations that went along with George Bush''s unconstitutional wiretapping of our phones in exchange for mucho profit, and then cut it off suddenty when the government forgot to pay, and who are now lobbying tooth and nail to avoid responsibility for their illegal wiretapping.

[donbl1]

cancel the subscription even if you have to pay a penalty.

Only voting with your feet will get their attention.

[magoo2u1]

Who do these people think they are, Verizon and the rest of them? Do they really think they create their own law and can''t be punished? Check the male enhancement jerk, 20 years in prison for the scams he pulled. The CEOs of these corporations can go to jail too. Also, they count on us accepting the "they got me for 20 bucks, aw gee whiz I guess they can keep it" attitude and they get million dollar bonus''s for the extra revenue they steal from us.

[beehive21-2009]

whoo text messaging is fun,cell companies ,will try to take advantage of you like the oil companies,was going to put car dealers however new car dealers are very good esp. if you have the extended warranty with GM.Buy unlimited text messaging only $ 20.00 / Mo. w/ t mobile,great company, verizion is inferior in my experience.stay with name brands they will not bake you like the fly by nights.Hope this info helps,buy from the best like food, eat Organic or local ,it''s best for you and your family.

[mrsmom3]

There are sites that you can get free ringtones without the worry of hidden charges or subscriptions. I use myxertones.com and phonezoo.com. You can upload a song and make a ringtone out of it and send it to yourself. The only charge you get is whatever it costs for you to have messaging on your phone. It also has videos and wallpaper for your phone. You won''t get charged anything from them.

[payasyougo]

Call Cingular, ATT''s wireless arm and tell them that you want text messaging disabled. Don''t hang up until they take care of it and then ask them to put a note in your account that you requested text messaging to be disabled.

I would think you could do the same with Verizon.

Make sure they put a note in your account file.

You have every right to disable a service you don''t want. After that, your carrier has no right to charge you.