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| Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
> In article < 459e30a5$0$68960$742
ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
> SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
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> hehehehehe Many years ago I got two simultaneous offers--one per phone
> line--from AT&T. These were checks for $100; according to the very fine
> print on the back, my cashing the check was authorization for AT&T to
> switch me to their long distance service.
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> I happily did so, knowing full well I had a long-standing PIC freeze on
> each line.
Well I did the same thing (with a $50 check), but I never got enough
back that way to compensate for what an earlier telephone offer
promised. They had offered six months of $30 per month credits, which
turned into, IIRC, six $15 credits. A coworker got the same offer and
was similarly screwed by AT&T.
No one ever called me to demand that I actually switch by releasing the
freeze, after I cashed the check, but IIRC, I got a letter explaining
that I needed to release the freeze in order to change to AT&T.
It's amazing to me the prices some people are still paying for long
distance, including intra-LATA. With something like TalkLoop, you pay
only 2¢ per minute, and it's very convenient with their no-PIN dialing,
and the ability to store frequently called numbers in their system. It's
a lot cheaper even for calls within the Bay Area, since AT&T charges 6¢
per minute for a call that's only going about 35 miles away. The only
time I really went crazy was when I needed to send a FAX to a number
that was not local. I ended up signing up for Faxaway, which charges $1
per month and about 10¢ for every five pages sent (free incoming).
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