Posted on 12/29/2011 10:12:36 PM PST by Lmo56
Verizon Wireless to charge $2 for one-time payments by credit card, online or by phone.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Verizon Wireless, the country's largest cellphone company, said Thursday that it will start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit cards.
The company said this "convenience fee" will be introduced Jan. 15.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
I guess I will have to just pay at the store with cash? I mean luckily there are a ton of stores around. I have one about 1 1/2 miles from the house.
I can go one better, my power company failed to credit my account( I am on automatic pay) and wanted $3.75 to talk to a real live person about it.
I can go one better, my power company failed to credit my account( I am on automatic pay) and wanted $3.75 to talk to a real live person about it.
The funny thing is, electronic payments like this are much cheaper for the company to handle, since they don’t need a human involved in the process.
Okay fine,no online payments..... from now on I’ll go back to requesting tree killing paper statements and use my bank’s no charge bill pay system. However I will specify the Verizon status as bank generated check..... Verizon...stuck on stupid....policy change in 4....3....2
Great.
They don’t charge for using an e-check.
Go ahead and wait in that line at the store. I have a smile from ear to ear than I dumped Verizon a long time ago.
Next, check you contract to see if it allows them to charge the $2. I'd be looking to see if the change would release me from the contract (if I was unfortunate enough to be a Verizon customer which happily I am not).
Verizon and Verizon Wireless, I learned to my chagrin, are two different companies within the same corporate entity, or were a few years ago. I tried to pay a VW bill at a Verizon office (or vice versa) and ended up being run around town. Under whichever name, it’s probably my least favorite company to have to deal with. If I weren’t so lazy, I’d change providers.
motherless bloodsuckers..!
I dumped those bloodsuckers 3 years ago.
I can go with that. I bought a Dell PC baack in 03 on their credit line, No interest if paid in 12 mos. Well on final pmt the wife forgot to add $0.34 to the check to pay it off. Dell wanted to charge the whole years interest to my account. Had to email them to reason. Even offered to send five bucks for the error. The emailed me back stating that they would do this one time,like they were doing me a favor.
I am wondering about the contract thing. One of our lines is under contract til next fall, but the main one and one other are up in February. I always pay on-line on their site. We have had Verizon for years and have had pretty good service, but this will tick me off. It will come into play when the 3rd line is up and we certainly will not be signing a new contract or buying new phones.
I will never go back to Verizon. They burned me for a couple hundred bucks after they made a deal. And were jerks about it. Then customer service was incompetant. Give me AT&T or Sprint my current. If my Sprint phone drops a call I am still thankful it is not Verizon.
You did an excellent job fighting your case.
Big deal about nothing. I pay all my bills on line, all charge a fee for credit or debit card payments. I pay with electronic checking and there is no fee. Credit card companies charge retailers a fee, this is only being passed on to us.
Their online phone billing redirects you to a payment service..and although I’m not totally computer illiterate, I could never get the thing to work right. When I called to pay by phone, they wanted a surcharge. I’m back to paper bills and the check is in the mail.
Merchants agreement? Isn’t that usually something like $2 +1% or something like that?
Ok. “Fine”. (No, it’s not fine, however...)
A “debit card” should never incur any “fees”, since it is no different than an
“E-check” or electronic check. Or a paper check, that’s the point.
Note to Verizon: Maybe if you hadn’t spent billions subsidizing iPhone sales, you wouldn’t have to resort to an action that is annoying the living HECK outta your customers.....
But they are famous for ‘you don’t use it, you lose it’ prepayments for several months in advance.
And meanwhile, Verizon is trying to tell me that I somehow enrolled in paperless billing two months ago, which I never do.
Why am I starting to feel like a sheep being led around by robots anymore?
This is getting ridiculous.
Thats why I use a Pay-as- Go cellphone
No contract BS
Just add money with credit card when need more time
Right, cause we are SOOOOO much for “Free Market” that we just rejoice in getting screwed.
Of course there is a fee they incur, but how much in ‘fees’ would they incur in hiring real live people, including workers comp, unemployment insurance, etc... to handle paper checks?
This has nothing to do with ‘passing the cost’ along and all to do with screwing over people with contracts.
Sorry, your Obamanomics 101 class must have forgotten to teach about cost comparison because your argument does not hold water.
I have told them, send me a bill (business account) so I have a hard copy to show the IRS if they come knocking. No bill, no payment, and no account in the future (--with them, I'll just move to another provider where I already have an account).
The online is a benefit to THEM. It costs way less for them to take electronic payments.
Let them process all the paper. See if they like it better than the strenuous online payment that they have to struggle to accept.
Another option is to go to another company when your contract is over.
We the People are tired of being “nudged”
Yes, I am one of the few that doesn't have talker's elbow because I have to call everyone I know to tell them about the last Matlock or rerun of a 1969 football game or (Heaven forbid) an episode of “Twilight”
Now with the post office having trouble, it’s possible that it’s only a matter of time when we’ll have to go online altogether and be charged even more?
They’ll get us by our azzes one way or another.
Tracfone has been very very good for me.
They have costs sure ,, but those costs were built into their fee structure ,, now you’re paying for those costs twice ... What ticks me off is that you can no longer use the old standard .. get a bill in the mail and pay by check ... because every single company that still bills that way plays games with the received mail ,, holding some of it back each month and reporting it LATE to incur fees ...
I switched to MetroPCS last year ... I pay $100/month for 4 smartphones with unlimited talk , text , e:mail and internet.. they take payments with no surcharges at company stores or their website (franchise stores add $3 to your bill for their fee).
Verizon scraps $2 fee
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Well, that didn’t take long.
Verizon said Friday that it was scrapping a controversial $2 fee for one-time bill payments announced just a day earlier. The announcement had immediately sparked an uproar online from customers irate about the prospect of incurring further fees simply by paying existing ones.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/12/30/technology/verizon_fee_canceled/index.htm
but yahoo finance doesn’t seem to have their panties in a wad about the new Dodd-Frank ATM fee..
My debit card is issued by VISA. The same rules apply.
Are you declaring that frequent mobile phone users, many of them young persons, would be watching or have any interest in Matlock, a program that went off the air in 1995 and starred then-70 year old Andy Griffith?
Are you declaring that frequent mobile phone users, many of them young persons born in 1990 or later, would have any interest in a football game from 1969?
Are you declaring that 'Twilight' is episodic television? It is, in fact, a series of big-screen films.
It seems you may not have a landline after all. You appear to have a telegraph.
Twilight is just more vampires. The topic has been overdone in the last few years.
They'll never top Nosferatu.
Talkies are a passing fad....
Twilight is just more vampires. The topic has been overdone in the last few years.
They'll never top Nosferatu.
Talkies are a passing fad....
I pay most of my bills through my banks electronic check service. It’s free.
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