Dec 23
The epidemic of overcharging
(This part of the post has been deleted)The truth of the matter is that companies overcharge unsuspecting patrons by obscene amounts all the time. Debating a charge is a difficult and timely, and most people won’t do it for the smaller things. I know I won’t debate them often enough to make it positive EV for people to overcharge me. More to the point, it is positive EV for companies such as Sprint or Verizon to overcharge nearly EVERYONE on their monthly cell phone bills because many people will miss it, and in response to those who find it they just pretend it’s a mistake. In a just world companies should be required to pay the hourly rate of whomever they overcharge for the number of hours it takes to get the bill right. The fact of the matter is the consumer has little recourse, and there is hardly anything that makes me more angry.This blog post has given me an idea. There should be a website with all major companies listed on it, and every time they overcharge someone “by mistake” that person should explain the situation on the website, the companies that do it the least would get the most business. Before I get an
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:30 am
I can confirm some of your suspicions about companies overcharging on purpose. I used to do billing for a major wireless provider and some managers had a policy of overcharging (by about 5-10%) a certain percent of their customers periodically. Those who didn’t complain got overcharged every month.
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:51 am
seriously dont you see all the mistakes you made? tbh I dont understand how you can be so good at poker and seem so dumb with taxes.
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:35 pm
wow, those emails make me want to tilt email that accountant….
holy shit, what a fuckface
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:58 pm
First of all, I have an accountant for you.
Second of all, http://www.ripoffreport.com/. I think that’s more like what you’re looking for.
It sucks that someone would do that to you, he crossed the line.
While you might not want to mention his name in regards to this post, you may want to make it public that you “do not recommend XXX accountant” in a separate post.
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Like phil hellmuth would have said it: “classy guy huh?… pretty sick”
December 24th, 2007 at 2:03 am
wow assuming you’re telling the whole truth that’s unbelievable, what a dumbass