This week I took part in the Carnival of the Vanities #204. It was really well done and he made excellent use of pics in the post. You can check it out here:
http://spookyaction.blogspot.com/
I won’t be updating myquo.com until next Friday, as I will be leaving for my honeymoon on Monday morning. My wedding date has been a big secret, but if anyone I know has stumbled across my blog, now you know. I look forward to writing about my financial experiences while in las vegas when I get back.
See you in a week.
Written by admin on August 18th, 2006 with no comments.
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Having wanted to get a DVR for the past year, I finally took the DVR plunge 4 months ago. I excitedly hooked up my DVR and began to record my favorite tv shows. Even better is the ability to pause live tv when my fiancée wants to discuss something in the middle of my favorite shows.
Imagine my surprise today when I looked at my cable bill statement online; my bill was $18 higher than it should have been. After looking at the details, it seems that I had been charged with a HBO/Cimemax package. A package that I did not sign up for, one that I did not even know that I had…
At first I thought they made a mistake and mistakenly charged me for the package. After all, mistakes do happen. But upon further digging, I saw that I was signed up for a “free” trial of the package when I signed up for the DVR.
The representative who signed me up mentioned nothing of the “free” trial 4 months ago. Of course, it may have been in the fine print of the paperwork that I had to sign, I’m not sure. I scanned through it and don’t remember anything about it.
Needless to say, I’m a little annoyed. I guess it is common practice for the cable company to deceive its customers by sneaking “free” trial packages into their products.
When I called my cable company and explained the problem, they were happy to make a “one time credit” to my account to reverse the charges. Which of course I thought was sweet of them since they were the ones who created this mess in the first place.
Let this be a lesson to you. Be sure you carefully watch what the companies you are dealing with are trying to pull. Don’t assume that they’ll just sign up for what you ask for because it’s likely that they’ll try to sell you everything that they can.
Written by admin on August 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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