Posted on 09/12/2004 6:12:31 AM PDT by OkieDokieSmokie
I remember when AOL folks began to show up on the internet. Interesting.
Contact the credit card company and tell them that aol is no longer authorized to collect from your account.
If a person ever gets "suspended" or "booted" this is a way to close the account. That can happen in a number of ways, even throough sending so many letters in a short timespan (something to do with spamming).
AOL Elections 2004: Straw Poll
Current Electoral Vote Estimate:
Bush: 535
Kerry: 3
Remember, You can't spell A$$hole without AOL
AOL Time Warner is onboard Kerry's Titanic. I'd just cancel, as they won't care what reasons you might offer.
Response: "...Effective way ...?"Probably not. While I have heard the stories about continued billing after cancellation of the service, when I quit it did not happen.
Send the main office of Time Warner a typed letter of complaint.
No, AOL was on its way down the tubes before Time Warner bought it. TM just helped finish the job. I used to work in their chat rooms when it was still owned by Steve Case, etc. It was bad then.
One of the things that really ticked me off about AOL was when they went to unlimited access and then never bothered to provide extra dial-up numbers to connect with. And once you did finally get connected (sometimes it took an hour or more), you kept getting pop-up windows asking you if you wanted to stay connected.
I hated AOL and got rid of it when they screwed all the geneology & history chatroom workers. We covered chatrooms on AOL in exchange for free AOL each month. On a Friday night, they demanded we provide them with our updated account information. I was out of town for the weekend and didn't have any of it with me. I wrote and asked if it could wait until Monday, which was a holiday and I'd be back home. I never got a response back, and on Monday morning, when I tried to access my account, it was blocked. They also ended up blocking a whole bunch of peoples' accounts. I gave them a week to get the whole thing resolved and get my service back. They didn't and I told AOL and the people I worked with in the chatrooms I wouldn't be back. I understand that the same guy who created that fiasco pulled another doozy on the folks who work in these AOL chatrooms. It had to do with him selling the rooms and either not advising the people who work in them, and/or never made arrangements with AOL to keep the rooms open.
Short answer: no.
Long answer: noooooooooooo.
It took me three months to stop them from billing me when I cancelled in 2002. A letter to AOL, CC'ed to my state's AG, finally got them to stop the charges (and got me a refund) but THEN they started telling me I'd been such a good customer that they were giving me 'credits' to my account (and continuing my service) kept me stringing-along for another four months and ALSO, somehow, increased the number of snail-mailings and adverts I got from them.
My final recourse was to just log on and continually "F*** F*** F***" all over the system until there were enough complaints to bann me and finally kill my account for-good. THIS, incidentally, also stopped the mailings.
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