Verizon to Charge a Fee for the Convenience of Taking your Money by AnthonyT

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Verizon to Charge a Fee for the Convenience of Taking your Money

POSTED BY: ANTHONYT
UPDATED: Thursday, December 29, 2011 19:54
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Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:31 PM

Freedom is Important because People are Important

http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/29/technology/verizon_convenience_fee/ind
ex.htm?hpt=hp_t1

Hello,

I can think of no better way to be seen as a two-bit outfit than by charging your customers two-bits for the 'convenience' of taking their money. They would have been better off dropping the pay options altogether. This move will spark customer outrage because it feels petty and greedy.

--Anthony

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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:32 PM

CANTTAKESKY

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Originally posted by AnthonyT:
...it feels petty and greedy.

It IS petty and greedy.

It is like corporations are run by pimps now.

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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:16 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Man, I already got into this with T-mobile, who also does it, or at least did two years ago.

Worse was that they wouldn't LET me freakin pay it since my ex bought me the phone and her address was different from mine, and wrangling a payment over the phone would cost an extra fee on top of THAT, so my only recourse was to drive seven miles away and personally pay it at the register of the local T-mobile shop, which happens to run by a couple of local small time crooks who also fence stolen goods and the notion of paying them with anything but cash was laughable since I did NOT want them in possession of enough info to run their usual scammery, you know ?
Not that I completely trusted em with cash either, and doing the process in such a way as to generate a proper, verifiable recipt took like ten minutes or so....

Add to that the fact that the phone in question would drop EVERY call after about 2-3 minutes, and often as not would be "unavailable" I finally lost patience with the matter and winged it at their head hard enough to shatter it on the back wall of their office, then walked out.

I now use a stone-axe simple pre-paid motorola with scramphone enhancement (in case some puffed up authoritarian jackass wants to seize my phone) via TRAC, paid for in cash, naturally.

What a sad world we live in, when paranoia has gone from mental illness to critical survival skill.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:37 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

No. You're supposed to blame the banksters for charging Verizon fees for allowing folks to use their credit/debit cards to pay their phone bills.

We pay pretty much all our monthly utility bills by direct transfer from a seperate checking account, so we never have to worry about bills being paid or credit/debit card fees. Anyone who can afford to have a credit card should be able to do the same.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:46 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

"Anyone who can afford to have a credit card should be able to do the same."

Hello,

Well, not everyone operates the way you do. This Fee is supposed to pay for the convenience of alternative pay options- a convenience that Verizon was previously paying for themselves in the name of good customer service.

Now customer service is diminished, and Verizon is saving money.

I wonder if they will lower their rates now that they're not suffering the burden of providing maximum payment freedom to their customers?

Probably not.

--Anthony

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"In every war, the state enacts a tax of freedom upon the citizenry. The unspoken promise is that the tax shall be revoked at war's end. Endless war holds no such promise. Hence, Eternal War is Eternal Slavery." --Admiral Robert J. Henner

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Thursday, December 29, 2011 7:54 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

"It is like corporations are run by pimps now."

Were they ever not?

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