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From: Travis
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 00:00
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I agree with you. I am not even a customer of ATT and I got a bill for some $320 for calls in my LOCAL CALLING AREA! I called and bitched and they tried to tell me that I owed the charges...I told them I am threatening to call the Public Utilities Commission as well as my local phone company until I get some answers. Well, after 30 days of hoo-hawing, they finally agreed to remove the charges....but what a DAM HEADACHE.........!!!!! AT&T Sucks! wrote: > I couldn't believe it when I got AT&T's recent bill. Talk about a ripoff and > an outrage. Here's a condensed version of my bill: > > Direct Dialed Long Distance Calls: $8.55 > > Two payphone calls totaling 3 minutes: $2.93 > > That leaves a total for all calls at: $11.48 > > Now for the fun part: > > Pay Phone Usage Charge: .60 > Minimum Usage Charge: $3.23 > Universal Connectivity Charge: $2.79 > Carrier Line Charge: $2.55 > Federal Tax: .63 > Infrastructure Fund Reimbursment: .26 > Local Tax: $.06 > State Tax: $1.33 > USF Charge: .16 > Poison Control Charge: .02 > 911 Surcharge: .02 > > This leaves a total for fees, charges, supplements and bullshit of: $11.65. > (MORE THAN MY ACTUAL CALLS!) CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS! > > I know some of these fees are mandatory, but I have already switched to > another carrier, where fees and things are much cheaper. > AT&T has stuck it to me for the last time, and if your smart you'll drop > this money grubbing, greedy company too. There are over 50,000 newsgroups > and It will take me over a month, but I'm going to try to post this on every > unmoderated newgroup I can. AT&T SUCKS!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa6e6,3a44e162779ad647 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa6e6,public X-Google-Thread: 10f73f,3a44e162779ad647 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f73f,public X-Google-Thread: 11474a,3a44e162779ad647 X-Google-Attributes: gid11474a,public X-Google-Thread: 10b420,3a44e162779ad647 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b420,public From: Travis <travis4fun@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: AT&T. Major Ripoff! Date: 1999/06/27 Message-ID: <37770990.5E2F9352@hotmail.com> X-Deja-AN: 494653421 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <930525533.727.46@news.remarQ.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: typ32b.nn.bcandid.com 930546651 209.222.159.65 (Mon, 28 Jun 1999 01:10:51 EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 01:10:51 EDT Newsgroups: alt.consumers,alt.consumers.experiences,alt.consumers.free-stuff,dfw.forsale