$200,000 phone bill
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- ThePublics0
also, to those condemning this woman ...
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
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HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A BALL-LESS POODLE?
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DO YOU ENJOY LICKING UP THE VOMIT OF YOUR MASTERS?
- ThePublics0
also, to those condemning this woman ...
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
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HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A BALL-LESS POODLE?
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DO YOU ENJOY LICKING UP THE VOMIT OF YOUR MASTERS?
- ThePublics0
^ gaylords
- hey i am a devout vancouveritian like yourself buster so watch the salacious jibber jabberprophetone
- 3030
- ifeltdave0
Moral of the story:
Don't go to Canada.
- boobs0
Phone companies love this kind of shit. They just love it. They do this, on an only slightly smaller scale, to thousands of people each year. And they love that they can point to some page 87 on some PDF on their website to justify it.
- Even if you can get them to agree to a much lower bill, they're still making 800% profit on the actual services rendered.i_monk
- animatedgif0
285 texts a day on average, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THAT WOMAN
- mikotondria30
$200,000 charge for a range of services that it has cost the phone company AT MOST $200 to provide.
That is a criminal scam, no matter what she'd "agreed" to in their contract. Fuck them. Declare bankruptcy.- true for T-Mobile, and the costs for the provider in Canada?coldarchon
- i_monk0
OCCUPY THE PHONE COMPANY
- fugged0
I don't disagree that she was wrong for not checking into it or that despite warnings the usage continued. But are you seriously going to defend an industry that charges about a 6,500% markup for texting? They're fucking crooks. Fuck them.
- No denying they're crooks. But this is the system we're stuck with for now, and we need to operate within that.Continuity
- You'd have been a big fucking help in the War Of Independence.
July 4th is cancelled for you.mikotondria3 - You do know I'm not American, right?Continuity
- http://www.tshirthel…fugged
- haha, nor am I :)mikotondria3
- Continuity0
There are two separate issues, here:
1) The fact she didn't do her research into roaming fees, which she should have done;
2) Mobile carriers' roaming fees themselves
The focus of the article is effectively on the fact she didn't do her research, and now she's crying unfair. Yes, roaming fees are punishingly high, and I reckon they shouldn't be; but, the fact is, she didn't do her research like she should have done, to avoid this 200k bill.
One time, after going to my mum's for Christmas in Canada from Amsterdam, I used my mobile an awful lot over the course of two weeks, and got back to NL to find a 1300€ bill as a result. Shocking, yes. A real blow to my bank account, yes. But I also knew it was my responsibility for not looking into how much using my Dutch mobile in Canada would cost, me to I swallowed it and paid up.
So I'm empathetic to this notion of 'bill shock', but seriously, take your responsibilities to prevent such a thing from happening.
- i_monk0
Phone companies are ripoff artists of the highest calibre. Take text messaging for example. It costs them nothing to route texts through – it piggybacks on the tower ping signal your phone uses to stay in sync with the network. That's why texts are limited to 90 characters (or whatever), because it's a 90 character ping. Yet phone companies charge you to send and receive a signal your phone ALREADY sends and receives a thousand times a day, whether you send a text or not.
- maikel0
the woman is a brainless cow, but, if you put into perspective, may banks got away with a lot more... and I am sure they read the small print....
- 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?...
- autoflavour0
this story lacks puppy dogs
- CALLES0
first world problem worthy?
- no shitGeorgesII
- Dunno- that can ruin your life. FWP's are pathetic problemsProjectile
- kgvs720
That happened to my friend's younger brother, except it was international data roaming. Bill came out to be over $1000.