http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/my-last-hundred-bucks-lunch-lunch-and-below-market-wifi/ Everything About Money You Were Too Polite To Ask Wed, 22 May 2013 11:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/my-last-hundred-bucks-lunch-lunch-and-below-market-wifi/#comment-34885 Megano! Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:19:56 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23268#comment-34885 $10 INTERNET WHAT KIND OF PARADISE DO YOU LIVE IN!? $10 INTERNET WHAT KIND OF PARADISE DO YOU LIVE IN!?

]]> http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/my-last-hundred-bucks-lunch-lunch-and-below-market-wifi/#comment-34859 noralo Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:36:20 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23268#comment-34859 Who's your internet provider? I had an infuriating call with mine (Verizon) yesterday over a similar $5 increase in which the "agent" told me I had been notified, then with much prodding (after telling me it was on page 4 of a mysterious bill, when I have paperless billing and my bills don't exceed 1 page), admitted that the notification wasn't visible to me anywhere online, but notifications are just a courtesy. So even though he lied, it doesn't matter, because I was never owed anything in the first place, except some inexplicable $5 increase. Utilities! Can't live with em... Who’s your internet provider? I had an infuriating call with mine (Verizon) yesterday over a similar $5 increase in which the “agent” told me I had been notified, then with much prodding (after telling me it was on page 4 of a mysterious bill, when I have paperless billing and my bills don’t exceed 1 page), admitted that the notification wasn’t visible to me anywhere online, but notifications are just a courtesy. So even though he lied, it doesn’t matter, because I was never owed anything in the first place, except some inexplicable $5 increase. Utilities! Can’t live with em…

]]> http://thebillfold.com/2013/02/my-last-hundred-bucks-lunch-lunch-and-below-market-wifi/#comment-34843 TARDIStime Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:40:48 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=23268#comment-34843 DISCOUNTS! Just ask for them - I used to freak out about it, too, but it's totally not even a thing for sales people! Yesterday, I organised a whole new phone plan on IM with a sales person while I was meant to be working. It took like 10 mins, and was so very, very straightforward! And the best bit is because all of the chat is in writing, If they don't waive the payout from my old handset like they said they would, I have written evidence to the contrary (emailed to myself and saved in my folder for bills) that I can email to whomever needs it to prove otherwise - double the convenience compared to doing this bullshit on the phone. DISCOUNTS! Just ask for them – I used to freak out about it, too, but it’s totally not even a thing for sales people!
Yesterday, I organised a whole new phone plan on IM with a sales person while I was meant to be working. It took like 10 mins, and was so very, very straightforward! And the best bit is because all of the chat is in writing, If they don’t waive the payout from my old handset like they said they would, I have written evidence to the contrary (emailed to myself and saved in my folder for bills) that I can email to whomever needs it to prove otherwise – double the convenience compared to doing this bullshit on the phone.

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