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Oh my.

alarimer (11,377 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:33 PM

I am so ****ing pissed right now.

I just got a bill from Tmobile. A company I no longer have a contract with. I switched service on Jan. 4. So I used them from Jan. 2-Jan 4 and they are charging for the ENTIRE ****ING MONTH. 100 dollars. **** you Tmobile. **** you, you piece of shit.
 
All they could tell me was that it was in the service agreement. If that's true, it needs to be illegal. I'm not paying it. I am going to bad mouth them all over Twitter, in the hopes they decide to drop this.

Sekhmets Daughter (3,857 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:39 PM

1. Hmmm,

If you are concerned about your credit scores you should know that they will report non-payment to the credit agencies and it will effect your scores. They'll also set the debt collectors upon you...

alarimer (11,377 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 05:51 PM

2. I will not be extorted

They change their terms all the time; how am I supposed to keep up?

This is a porting fee, no more no less. Illegal as hell.

Sekhmets Daughter (3,857 posts)   Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:14 PM

3. I was with Verizon for years and years...

last summer I switched carriers, I had been out of contract for over 2 years. I switched with 8 days left in my billing cycle. They sent me a bill for the full month. I called and asked how that could be as cell phone service is paid a month in advance. Representative said, "It's a very complicated system and works out to 1/2 a month is advance. I said fine, send me a new bill for 1/2 month's service and reflecting the 8 days of credit. Nope. They kept sending me the same bill, I kept calling. They began calling me with a recorded message to call back. First few calls I did and explained the problem. After that I just rejected the call when the number came up.

After 4 months they sent it to a collection agency and dinged my credit scores, one for 90 points! Now I don't give a crap about my scores, I'm at that point in my life where I have as much credit as I want (and more than I need) I have a paid for automobile and no intentions of buying another...I can afford to let them do their worst. All I'm saying is that while you may want to stand on principle, they can cause you more heartache than the $100. is worth. Analyze your particular situation, and go from there. It can take years to recover 90 points on a credit score.
 
Do you have copies of all your past bills? That was my problem...I'd been paying the bills on line for so long, had opted out of the paper statements and they only keep the most recent 6 or perhaps 12 on the site. So I had only my memory to go on, I don't even bank with the same institution I did when I first opened the Verizon account. To make it worse, when I first switched they locked me out of the web site...it magically reopened 2 months later...with nothing but the last unpaid bill on it. If you live in a state with a Democratic Attorney General you could try contacting that office.

Purveyor (11,360 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:14 PM

4. It is true and you are obligated to pay. Somebody called into Clark Howard a few weeks back on this very topic.

Sorry.

alarimer (11,377 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:34 PM

6. Well some people have managed to get them reduced

I'm escalating the call now.

I suspect I've been hung up on.

I'm going to Twitter-bomb them next.

Purveyor (11,360 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 07:06 PM

8. Good luck my friend. Give 'em hell!

Lady Freedom Returns (3,012 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:25 PM

5. I was a T-Mobile customer once.

They made me a firm believer in the no contract pay as you go phones.

alarimer (11,377 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:47 PM

7. Update: I escalated the call and they pro-rated the amount

This after speaking to three customer service agents.

So, complaining sometimes works.

[Delmar]

alarimer (11,377 posts)    Fri Feb 15, 2013, 06:34 PM

6. Well some people have managed to get them reduced

I'm escalating the call now.

I suspect I've been hung up on.

I'm going to Twitter-bomb them next.

That Tmobile bill collector had better go shopping for a stocking cap and mittens because when alaimer is done with him, he's going to be collecting bills from out of the Tmobile office in Nome, AK.

[Tucker]

I'm escalating the call now

Interesting choice of words.

In case anyone was wondering, it's a female by birth.