Awesome billing error in my favor, and now I'm moving
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The ones who work for Directv directly do. Not contractors.
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Can we stop this thread now PLEASE?! (prepares for flame onslaught...)
The OP's questions have been answered, sufficiently, IMO
Thanks!
If we closed all threads when the initial question is answered we wouldn't be much of a discussion forum.
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I disagree. It's one thing to discover that you have been paying $65 per month instead of $70....because with incentives, promos etc, you could easily not be aware of the issue, and it would be up to D* to rectify it, but to be paying $5 when you should be paying $70 is outright theft.
The issue isn't so much the original error, it's trying to continue to take advantage of the situation at any cost.
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And trying to find justification to perpetuate this on a public forum while dismissing whatever opinion doesn't agree with the OP is asinine.
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MsSarcastic said:
And trying to find justification to perpetuate this on a public forum while dismissing whatever opinion doesn't agree with the OP is asinine.
I'm sorry but the right answer is "It depends". The provider is the entity that has hired lawyers to create their fine print masterpieces. One would expect them to be thorough and include terms about billing errors and what the parties rights and duties would be.
What if there is no language on this? You are asking people to set aside their contract and assume what's fair and what isn't. In the law, contract terms are very often established by performance. This occurs when like the original contract doesn't have anything on it and a judge is trying to figure out what happens in a circumstance not covered in the writing.
I am sorry, but in this system when a party pays what's billed in writing, the other party repeatedly accepts what's paid and continues to provide the product or service at that price, a perfectly honest and upstanding citizen has a legitimate right to say that a deal is a deal.
Aridon said:
We're not the ones in question here. Knowingly paying $5/month for 10 months when you know you should be paying $70/month is theft! Plain and simple. Don't bring everyone else into this. We're not the party committing theft or perpetuating a fraud. If the OP can't take the criticism, she should have kept her mouth shut! And before accusing others of being full of it, you should check your own shorts first!
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If we closed all threads when the initial question is answered we wouldn't be much of a discussion forum.
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My point is, the questions have been answered and now we're getting into ethics.
I'm not suggesting we close threads because they are answered, but rather because they get off topic.
trinidex said:
The post has always been about ethics or the lack of. If it bothers you that much, don't read it.
Threads only get closed if the OP suggests it or the thing gets WAY out of hand ....
I don't make those desigins, but I see nothing out of hand.
How does the OP keep the bill at $ 5 when EVERYBODY's bill goes up in Feb now., hell, my bill itself went up $ 6.
Jimbo said:
I think the OP said it went up to $6 with the annual increase? I'm too lazy to reread.
I don't get why OP seems to think that you can just tell a collection agency that the charges are bogus. A billing error does not change what is supposed to be due. They are allowed to bill you for services you received, and they provided. From the way it sounds you weren't being billed for the programming package itself, but just the recievers.
The only way that 'could' make this reasonable, and you get away with the cheap bill, is if your bill showed you being billed the full amount, and there being a discount applied on the bill.
However something tells me this person could just be trolling.
The only way that 'could' make this reasonable, and you get away with the cheap bill, is if your bill showed you being billed the full amount, and there being a discount applied on the bill.
However something tells me this person could just be trolling.
so she WAS paying $1...
Makes me wonder if she WON a contest and got a free year or something like that.
jwgreen68 said:
I don't want to drag this out too much, but she was just asking for help to move her service, why she was so open about this is beyond me. Maybe she was just trying to stir the pot. I am surprised, though, how well she has succeeded in doing that.
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If you go back to the original post, you will see that she was simply here to troll. JMHO, of course!
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