Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Polytx/Verizon?
Are you being robbed? Haven't you had the sneaking feeling that your cellphone company was padding your bill? Come on. How could anyone know they weren't defrauding customers of millions of dollars each billing circuit? Take Verizon as an example. Nothing like the old Bell system where you automatically received a monthly billing of every call you made long distance. Most businesses give you a billing receipt for every purchase when you pay at checkout. Verizon only gives you a total and, like Jimmy Carter, says "Trust me." There's no way to check their accuracy except by paying them even more money to do what other businesses do as part of your purchase. Congress needs to have hearings on the charges made by all cell companies, a check to learn if Americans are being defrauded to death, and a law that makes cell companies itemize calls. ***