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Article #20Bell Canada's Secret Discount
From: Christopher Anthistle
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 00:00
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I am a long time loyal Bell Canada long distance customer who felt cheated when I discovered they had a secret, they were allowing DOUBLE Real Plus discounts for 6 months to former customers who had left Bell. I insisted on the same discount. They refused and threatened to cut me off as I had already deducted the discount from prior month's bills. I applied to the CRTC and they were of no help. This seems illogical. The key for Bell is secrecy, but from a business viewpoint, for customer satisfaction, I would have thought that customers discovering and asking for this discount would have been given it rather than forcing them to leave Bell to get it. This refers to the Bell Canada "Winback" promotion. For full details please see my web site at http://www.rose.com/~chrisa/bellwinb.html I am posting this so other loyal Bell Canada long distance customers will know what is happening, and know of Bell's high handed treatment of people who have the temerity to complain. If you are a loyal Bell customers also feels it is wrong for Bell to reward those who had the good sense to leave for cheaper rates, whilst not rewarding those that stayed with Bell, then read the above web page and tell Bell what you think of them by voting with your feet. After 27 years with Bell Canada I have now moved my long distance to Fonorola, who are a Canadian company with excellent rates and who financially support Ontario Educational TV (TVO Channel 19 in Toronto). See the Fonorola web site at http://www.fonorola.com/ Christopher Anthistle
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f85d3,334285024a6b12b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf85d3,public X-Google-Thread: 104ea2,334285024a6b12b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid104ea2,public X-Google-Thread: 10633c,334285024a6b12b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10633c,public X-Google-Thread: f9cff,334285024a6b12b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf9cff,public X-Google-Thread: f924a,334285024a6b12b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf924a,public X-Google-Thread: 10445c,334285024a6b12b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10445c,public X-Google-Thread: 104776,334285024a6b12b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid104776,public X-Google-Thread: 114f31,334285024a6b12b0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid114f31,public From: bi446@torfree.net (Christopher Anthistle) Subject: Bell Canada's Secret Discount Date: 1997/10/11 Message-ID: <EHv1H6.1AE.0.queen@torfree.net> X-Deja-AN: 279455420 Summary: Bell Canada customer complaint about secret long distance discounts Organization: Toronto Free-Net Keywords: Bell Canada CRTC long distance telephone double Real Plus discounts Newsgroups: can.schoolnet,can.schoolnet.chat,can.schoolnet.chat.students,can.schoolnet.chat.students.jr,can.schoolnet.chat.students.sr,can.schoolnet.chat.teachers,can.schoolnet.staff.development,can.scout-guide,can.shad-valley