No wonder I'm broke!!!

[countrygirl12]

I am not sure why you would only check your bills once a year.   I do not do auto pay.  It takes less than 15 minutes to sit down at the computer and manually pay each bill myself.

Vickysue - if you have the sports channel then you will pay the fee all the time not just when you say you are watching it.

[countrygirl12]

I took on a power company once because of a stray voltage deal, it got really ugly and they tried every trick in the book to make me out to be a crazy woman that was making it all up, I even had a guy stand on my back porch and tell me to face it I was a energy HOG!!!  21 years they had a line under ground that was leaking into the ground and they were charging me for all this power, I lived alone and month by month my bill keep going up, as the underground line got worse.  I was even lugging my laundry out so as not to use my electric dryer, all the electricians in the town were in their pockets already so hiring a person to find the problem wasn't working and when my bill hit 375.00 dollars running nothing but what was needed to just get by, I asked a friend who was a Master Electrician from Holland if he'd come to Minnesota on vacation  and I'd pay for the trip....  He took me up on the offer and with my requests of bring me a Steiff Teddy Bear and a coco clock he showed up and kicked the power company in the butt, he called the trouble shooters line to report outages and explained what he had found and within one hour my yard looked like a power convention with guys walking around scratching their heads and rubbing their chins, My buddy and I sat on the steps watching,  and after they finished doing what they did to fix it I had a bland new power line with a pole . Guy says we will be in contact with a refund offer.  Following month with every thing running in full tilt mode my bill was 67.00 so the same people who had called me a crazy woman show up with some stupid offer that wasn't  worth answering the door and i kindly told them to strike a trail and I called a Lawyer I ended up getting refunded for 10 years of over payments  a hand written " I'm sorry letter"  from the jerk who called me a energy hog and power free for Nov and Dec  of the coming year so I  could have a X-mas like no other with tons of lights! I should have gotten more but the fine print on your power contracts in Minnesota states "fixed in a timely manner"  and  their Big Gun Lawyers twisted that statement into their favor !  I guess 21 years was timely for my problem to get tended to in their eyes!!

If you could prove he stood there and called you an "energy hog" you could probably get him fired.

[6265AT99]

I seem to recall learning in history as a child that a REVOLUTION was started over BEING OVER-TAXED!!!!  Seems maybe we need another one!!!!

[countrygirl12]

I seem to recall learning in history as a child that a REVOLUTION was started over BEING OVER-TAXED!!!!  Seems maybe we need another one!!!!

It will never happen.  Besides that revolting against the government is stupid to get back at a company.  The thing to do is stop doing business with that company.  But people won't do that.  I turned my cable off several years ago and won't be turning it back on.  If enough people turned off their cable not switched companies but turned it off and found other things to do with their life it would hurt them.

[PGS28]

I had a cable company to slip in those sneaky fees like that years ago, so glad I left them.