VonGuard's Journal: New Job, new home, new life

Heavenly god, I am reduced to blogging on Slashdot! Of course, this is because my current living situation is utterly without broadband. Or even narrow band for that matter.

So life continues to truck along, even though my only access to the internet comes at work. i'm there now, naturally, and of course, writing a pointless blog which no one will ever read is work, right? I should be getting paid 25 an hour for this! You know it.

So how about a bit of a discussion on obscene billing practices? The first ones to bring this to my attention were Ticket Master. When you call them for tickets, the first thing they will do is tell you that the seats you want are unavailable, and that the only seats open are whatever is the most exspensive. Course, you can always buy all those seats they won't tell you about on their website. Nice.

Nevermind the exhorbitant fees they charge.

Then there are cell phone companies. They will ALWAYS bill you for anything they can think of that's even minorly plausible. Then, you have to wait on hold for an hour to discuss the fees. Sprint loves to do this. You have to wait on hold to discuss yer bill, even if you call them from a Sprint PCS store.

Then there are banks, particularly Bank of America, who's policy is "Fees first, fixes later." They love over billing because no one ever calls them and complains. if you do complain, they will often throw $40 at you to get you to shut up. Kinda scarry.

But the absolute worst people out there, the most monsterous vilains on the Internet are those lame assholes with T-shirts and stuff that never send them out. They invariably use paypal, who is impossibly to deal with on the phone. You'll never get yer money back. ever.