my shocking moment of the day

[MRCN RCE]

so yeah, sprint says i owe them this much or they're cutting off my service. anybody wanna donate??obviously this is a SERIOUS screw up, but i thought i would share this with you guys has anybody else had a ridiculous bill come in the mail before??

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[Kamikaze]

All I can say is (removed)... major screw up...I would demand a free month due to their screw up saying you owe them... and threaten that you'll disconnect your service with them just as they threaten to do the same to you...You think they would check and recheck before sending a bill for that kind of amount... I guess it's no different than when I deposited 400 into my checking account and the next day I had $40,000 in my account... I was going to try to withdrawl it all, but they caught the error before I could do anything...

[coldmm803]

wow, hope u save your bills and have your last one showing a much smaller payment

[MRCN RCE]

yeah i talked to them earlier because i received a strange recorded phone call (before my mail even came in today), and the lady told me how much i owe, which is nothing near that much. when i opened the letter and looked at the total, i was like (removed) for a minute, then i just laughed.my mom came over to visit, and she wanted to call to see if she could get them to give me any type of credit. they said there were other letters that went out showing stupid amounts of money too, but they won't give anyone a credit. so she said she's gonna be writing letters loli asked my mom, "what if i would've just had the money and sent a check without seeing what the problem was, do you think they would've called me asking why i sent em so much money??". i doubt it

[kunkstyle]

I'd do a credit check to make sure it's not an ID theft issue. There's an actual $85,000 bill that occurred here a few months ago. The guy thought he could use his cell for a modem so he wouldn't have to pay for a cable connection. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calga....html- - - On a side note, did you notice that you blacked out your last name on the header of the bill, but not on the letter itself?

[MRCN RCE]

lol actually kunk, i didn't notice that. i just did it fast, and didn't double check anything. i just wanted to black out my weird last name so you guys wouldn't make fun of me actually i don't care if my name shows up on there, i just wanted to block my account #, so at least i got that one right the story you posted is crazy. 85 grand?? mine was just a computer error, the lady at sprint said my account had no extra charges, and i'll owe nothing more than i usually pay per month

[kunkstyle]

Quote, originally posted by MRCN RCE »i just wanted to black out my weird last name so you guys wouldn't make fun of me With a last name of 'Kunkel', I hardly have any right making fun of last names...Glad to hear it was just a clerical error. Convince them to give you a month or two free for emotional trauma Yeah, the kid here was an idiot. He signed up for an unlimited monthly web browsing fee, so he assumed that meant that he could use it as a modem and get his unlimited browsing that way. They should have made him pay the full 85k. Nobody warned him that his bill was so high. *sigh* Another case of stupid people expecting the rest of us to prevent them from doing stupid things.

[MRCN RCE]

yeah, it seems like people want us to excuse their stupidity more than i want people to excuse my french at least my phone bill wasn't as bad as this guy's:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12247590/

[kunkstyle]

At least that bill isn't as bad as this bill:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24328818/Sorry. Had to. They were linking to it at the bottom of the article you posted and I just couldn't resist.

[MRCN RCE]

i seriously LOL'ed after just reading the headline. i had to calm down before i could read the actual article. good find i love this site

[lovemyraffe]

I'd suggest to stop calling those 1-900 numbers.

[jwalcik]

Quote, originally posted by lovemyraffe »I'd suggest to stop calling those 1-900 numbers.Or at least cut back on the texting

[MRCN RCE]

do i really have to stop calling 1-900-GV-IT-2-ME?? those are some really nice girls that are just trying to pay their way through school. i just want to help them

[kunkstyle]

1-900-GV ? There's a genvibe hotline?!?!

[MRCN RCE]

haha i wondered if someone would say that

[ColonelPanic]

They had whats his name from Office Space write the code for their accounting software, he put the decimal point in the wrong place again. always screws up on some mundane detail. I'm glad you really don't owe that much, that would suck. Think they'd let you finance that out for 5 years like you would a car if you really did owe that much? (removed)

[wyatt89]

Quote, originally posted by kunkstyle »At least that bill isn't as bad as this bill:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24328818/Sorry. Had to. They were linking to it at the bottom of the article you posted and I just couldn't resist.That's pretty funny, too bad it's not banned everywhere...it's really annoyingWell...I should get some for my little nissan truck >:D

[NibCrom]

Haha! Sprint sucks!

[Whelan]

Verizon FTW!And your name is actually not considered what we call PII. Personal Identifiable Information. In other words using just a name cannot get you other peoples IDs. Things like SSNs and other things will. Just two cents from my company which is an HR outsourcing business. Hewitt.