$200,000 phone bill
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- kilroii
A Florida woman forgot to turn her data roaming off - gets hit with a $200,000 bill...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…
- Miesfan0
So... if you rack up a bill that is legitimately charging you for services per your agreement... complain and suddenly you don't have to pay for services rendered? Awesome.
- Honestly though, it shouldn't be able to happen.404NotFound
- is your username "scoff" o Disqus?coldarchon
- pizzafire0
crazy that there was no warning at all. that's set to change apparently.
- mekk0
who does not know to fucking turn off roaming when abroad.. jesus she deserves it.
- toe_knee0
Florida woman not in the kitchen?
- GeorgesII0
anyone above me actually read the article?
- Tausk0
"T Mobile said that Shamir was billed $10 per megabyte and that they had texted the rate to him.
Four additional texts were sent to his phone as the charges surged, they said."
They knew they were getting charged as they were using it but kept using it.
"But then Shamir went to Canada for a two-week holiday.
Neither Celina nor her brother thought to change him to an international plan."Didn't bother to look in to it.
Typical American mentality. Complaining will get you out of issues.
- set0
Similar thing happened to my friend, although on a slightly smaller scale.
He didn't realise the radio would cost him internet fees and played it the whole 2 weeks he was on holiday. Came back to something like a £2,000 bill.
Rang up and contested it and they let him off. Wtf.
- wtf, what an idiot. But a lucky idiot I guessanimatedgif
- Continuity0
I must say, I find it very strange that US mobile providers have such punishing rates when it comes to roaming in Canada. Then, again, Canadian mobile providers probably do the same – or worse – just cos they pretty much exist to roger their customers any chance they get.
Still, this lady should have done her research before the phone even left the house.
- This is how they make money. Business is business303
- Well, there's 'business', then there's 'giving it to you not so gently in the arse with an un-lubed wire brush'.Continuity
- lol @ a lubed wire brush being any better =Dset
- There would probably be more bleeding and internal damage.Jaline
- :)Jaline
- Ouch!303
- Raniator0
Fuck her. Everyone knows how expensive roaming costs are, she should pay up in full or go to jail.
- jfletcher0
I don't understand how text messages and a few videos went to 200K.... In the article it mentions 2K for a single video... 100 videos? thousands of text...geez
- CALLES0
Texting easiest way to communicate with her two brothers who are deaf and unable to speak
and probably downloaded massive amounts of porno
- GeorgesII0
crazy how everyone is jumping on her,
but not complaining about the cost of a few Kilobytes of data,sending videos and sms cost virtually nothing, but instead of getting pissed at corporations for screwing us, you get angry at the stupid lady for being stupid, roaming or not,
it's still a scam- everyone wants everything for freeTausk
- Things that are free to produce - yeh, we pretty much want them free to be honest.mikotondria3
- It's free now because there was an investment done to make that happen. txt messages didnt just appear out of nowhere.Tausk
- out of no where.Tausk
- The cost of the infrastructure that facilitates them is borne by calls and data cost.mikotondria3
- CALLES0
Celina has two brothers who were born deaf and cannot speak.
Shamir the younger one is in college and doesn't work, and Celina is especially close to him.Between them the two brothers sent over 2,000 texts and also downloaded videos, sometimes racking up $2,000 in data charges.
i mean isnt there a handicap data plan?
- Tausk0
Sprint has unlimited everything plan
- Including roaming? I highly doubt that.Continuity
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- cotton0
Is there even a legitimate reason for providers to even charge rates like this? It's always seemed like robbery to me. Idiot users or not.
- kgvs720
That happened to my friend's younger brother, except it was international data roaming. Bill came out to be over $1000.
- CALLES0
first world problem worthy?
- no shitGeorgesII
- Dunno- that can ruin your life. FWP's are pathetic problemsProjectile
- autoflavour0
this story lacks puppy dogs
- prophetone0
this should be seen as a scam? she shouldn't be accountable? call me crazy but i would spend the 30 sec double checking my roaming abroad rates before going anywhere and taking appropriate action. it's called being responsible. and if the rates are scamtastic, with which i whole heartedly agree about as they are soooo very brutal, then don't sign up with that carrier i guess?...