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.
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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.
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.
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