Re: Beware of VERIZON'S THIEVERY!

You call someone long distance - they answer, but you both put the phone
down and no one actually talks - this goes on for 30 minutes or more.
Should you pay for the call?? (Certainly - it was the connection you pay
for,
not the conversation)

You rent an apartment or pay a mortgage. You go on a month's vacation.
Do you ***** and moan about that month's payment because you didn't use
the dwelling for that month?



"Freedom Fighter" <liberty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Robert Coe" <bob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 21:31:00 GMT, "Freedom Fighter" <liberty@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>> : "RNess" <richard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> : news:_JKdnYgXoZQH3lzZnZ2dnUVZ_qGdnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> : > Do you honestly think that the mechanism that bills these calls
>> : > is smart enough to know if you were successful - or not?
>> : >
>> : > Please get real - you called 411, you got connected - you got
charged.
>> : > The charge is for the call - and that is how it's billed - real
simple.
>> : >
>> : > *****ing about this is moronic and shows a high level of naiveté.
>> :
>> : To the contrary, it exposes how greedy corpserations manipulate such
>> : cir***stances to maximize their profits, even when the way they do so
>> : amounts to thievery. Charges should only apply when an actual service
is
>> : rendered. I do not believe that Verizon, with all the technology at
their
>> : disposal, cannot implement this so that their customers are not
subject to
>> : unjustified charges. The reason is that profits are all that is
im****tant to
>> : them, and they couldn't care less about ethics and fairness.
>>
>> Fair enough. But with all the cor****ate greed and sleaze rampant in
this
>> country, can't you find something more significant to ***** about than
a
>> beasly $1.48?
>
> I wouldn't miss the $1.48 at all, but there is a principle involved
here. If Verizon or any other greedy corpseration 
> gets away with this with one person, they make very little. But more
realistically, with say 1000 people a day? 
> Perhaps 10,000? That amounts to grand larceny!
>