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.