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You were lucky only $5 was taken Avril. I've just been defrauded, if that's the word but quite legally.
I've just paid the remaining amount of a holiday to Gran Canaria due in a few months and been charged £8 for paying by Visa, despite it only costing around 10p to process the card.
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And I've just received a card statement with a £12 "late payment fee" on it for a bill paid a full 8 days before the due date. Naturally I rang up to complain and the company admitted their error and removed the late payment charge, but to get through I had to stay on hold for 25 minutes at 10p a minute. Grrrr!
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Don't they have a toll-free number for customer service? Every company in the US does.
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Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
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retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
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If they do, they don't advertise it, Frank!
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That's a rip-off in itself, Linda. We just switched our landline phones over to a service provided by the same outfit that provides our cable TV and Internet. The three services are bundled into a monthly package that was $99 for the first year and rises to $129 from that point on. For that we get high-speed unlimited internet, the basic digital TV cable (about 100 channels and we haven't bothered to get a HD set) and the phone. The phone package has free calls throughout the US and Canada, fairly cheap calls to Europe (8 cents a minute), caller identification, call waiting, call forwarding and a voice mail that gets stored on your computer as a .wav file. We've kept our telephone's built in answerer, but if someone calls when the line's busy, it goes to the computer.
Because of the geographic limitations of this particular neighborhood, we can't get any over-the-air TV, so we have to have cable. Having just one bill for all those services is handy.
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Thank you, Martin - I've got that site bookmarked now!
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How aboutthis for a scam. My daughter in law returned to her parked at capitol centre and found a large scratch down one side that wasn't there when she parked.
Later that day she was telephoned by the police saying her car had been reported as being involved in a hit and run in Manchester Road.
It hadn't, she hadn't been anywhere near Manchester Rd. It transpired it was an Asian man trying to con his insurance company. Fortunately the scratch was repaired fairly easily with that T wax stuff.
