kapil
The Kapil
join:2000-04-26
Chicago, IL
| Speakeasy can lick my salty balls!
I was a loyal Speakeasy customer for years...referred so much business to them that I should have been on their payroll...then I had this tax/fee argument with their executive escalation guy.
He swore up and down, despite being shown proof to the contrary that the many, many bogus fees on my bill were legitimate. In fact, one fellow dslr member even had the fees removed from his bill because he went about it quietly instead of making a public scene like me.
I have since left Speakeasy in protest. True, my $200 won't put them out of business...but it's a matter of principle. I am now happily with Covad, paying more than I was paying Speakeasy...but the price I was quoted is the price I pay...and integrity like that is priceless.
Down with corporate scum like Speakeasy, Verizon and ATT. |
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MeKuN
join:2004-07-21
Eugene, OR | Im just confused. Why didnt they just raise rates instead of making a bogus fee. It makes no sense to me at all. They just come off looking like greedy asses instead of just greedy. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | Because companies aren't forced to include fees in their advertised price. So they made up the bogus fee to try to make it seem prices aren't going up. |
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whatthe
join:2003-05-13
Urbandale, IA | Why are telco's allowed to charge all these bogus fees? I can't think of any other industry that is this bad. I swear a land line bill is 2X the advertised rate. Haven't other sectors figured out how to buy off the politicians? |
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rip_sketches
join:2002-05-25
Dallas, GA
| The fees aren't/weren't meant to be bogus when they were first implemented.
Take the Universal Service Fund for example, a fee the government imposed on carriers to subsidize communications services in rural areas.
In practice, say in an apartment complex where a mile of copper would serve 100 customers, tacking this fee on was supposed to help offset the cost of running 10 miles of copper just to service one single customer.
The reality today is that the copper is already there yet they continue to charge this fee to DSL customers only to turn around and NOT continue building out their service in the more rural areas as it was meant to be used. They were only using it to pad their bottom lines while it didn't have to be included in the advertised prices.
Just color me suprised at the low amount of responses to this story as this was one of the biggest HOT-Button issues when I first joined up here at DSLR. |
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cork1958
Cork
join:2000-02-26
Fruitport, MI
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·Charter Pipeline
| reply to MeKuN
said by MeKuN  :Im just confused. Why didnt they just raise rates instead of making a bogus fee. It makes no sense to me at all. They just come off looking like greedy asses instead of just greedy. You mean they come off looking like the people they are?!! 
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