Posted on 07/19/2006 10:24:02 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I'd think the proper answer to that is, "Fine by me. Keep it open until the end of time . . . but I'm canceling that credit card/closing that bank account, so AOL will get no money for the account you refuse to cancel."
AFAIK, these guys are just on the Outer Banks, NC
http://www.aginet.com/
if all the free discs and CDs that AOL has distributed were stacked end-to-end, I wonder how many times it would circle the globe?
The only thing I find useful from and AOL CD is the Internet Explorer installation.
I usually just hold the left shift key when inserting the disk so it doesn't 'autorun'.
Dude, that is a wonderful and profound question. With your permission, I will submit it to Cecil Adams, world-class know-it-all and proprietor of The Straight Dope. I will promptly report any answer I might receive.
That is exactly what I tell my aol pals...LOL! Works every time, too...simply amazing. AO-hell doesn't like not getting that $23.95 a month for their lousy service.
We did cancel a credit card, but not AOL and we forgot to transfer the payments to a new card. AOL kept on billing the old card and because dh was honest he accepted responsibility. The credit card company should have refused charges right away and we would have gotten things straightened out right away. Anyway the credit card company erased late charges but didn't clear charges on late charges and we have an unending mess.
Mrs VS
And for some reason, your question brings to mind one of the quips uttered by the inimitable Dorothy Parker, may God rest her incandescently wicked soul: "If all the girls at Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised."
Just cancel the credit card. I had to do this with both AOL and Earthlink.
Space is deep. People
are weird. Ayn Rand used to like
Charlie's Angels. Blech.
The golden rule of sales is to persist up to seven "no's".
AOL outlived it's usefulness years ago. It was the general store. The internet is the shopping mall. Just because the general store is glued to one of the entrances to the shopping mall, it doesn't mean it is the only way in.
In fact, it's the WORST way in.
I think the proper approach would be the one I used: after identifying myself I simply answered any sales question with "Cancel my account."
So what do you do for a living?
Cancel my account.
Do you have any hobbies?
Cancel my account.
Was there a part of AOL you especially liked?
Cancel my account.
Why are you so adamant about leaving AOL?
Cancel my account.
They did, in fact, cancel my account...in one phone call.
We had a deal at work where we could get AOL for 4 bucks a month. I had broadband, but set up the account and gave it to an elderly neighbor who took some interest in the internet. When she passed away, I had to do the cancellation thing. It took about 30 minutes, but I got there more thru persistance than screaming.
Non illigitimus carborundum, LOL
http://www.complaints.com/november2003/complaintoftheday.november20.9.htm&e=9797
quote:
This past summer AOL was unable to charge our credit card anymore and in September we get a collection letter for $47.
This is the very reason I tell all of my customers who use or have used America OFF-line, to cancel that POS just as fast as they physically can.
SM '72
I think there's some question about whether you can opt out of AOL.
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