Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Corporate scams

I currently use MetroPCS on a 3G phone. I have tried to view their Terms of Service page in the past, but it had been blank. Recently, I've been getting texts that I have used up the 4G data for the month. How can you use any 4G data on a 3G phone? You may be getting charged 4G speeds without getting it, but how would you know?

Recently I received a phone call from Telecheck saying that I owe them a $20 return check fee from a few months ago when Amazon claimed that I owed them $15 but later admitted they were wrong. There was never any check. When I called them back they claimed to have found another $20 fee to stick me with. Telecheck thinks it can refuse to accept my statement over the phone or the internet and insists that it must have me send it a form in the mail. Well, it's not getting its form or the money it wants to steal from me. Unrelated to the $15 snafu, Amazon wants me to send them a FAX to unblock my payments account.

Typing this on my phone reminded me of the autocomplete/autocorrect problem. Why is it so broken?