| reply to lflarry1
Re: Verizon DSL price changing options One interesting thing about the FUSF fee on the DSL service is that it's not a regulated fee.
Sure VerizonOnline is charged FUSF fees by the people who provide VOL the actual lines (Verizon BroadBand VzBB) but VOL is not required to charge this fee to their customers, in fact they arent supposed to collect it as a fee. Read their info on the FUSF fee you'll see that they are "passing through" the cost they are being charged for the line by VzBB.
I thought that's what the base price was for, instead some greedy exec got together with a marketing guru and decided that they could still advertise a rate of $29.95 or $34.95 (soon to be $37.95) and hide the FUSF pass through.
Let's put it this way, if you buy a candy bar from a store for $1 (the advertised price of the candy bar) you'll get charged sales tax, no biggie. But what if when you were checking out the store clerk said on top of this there's a candy bar storage fee as it costs a lot for him to put candy bars on the shelf and his rent just went up he's just going to pass this cost on to the consumer. So he still advertises the candy bar for $1 but after sales tax and this "pass through" fee you end up paying $1.87 (.07 tax and .80 pass through fee).
I'm surprised that someone hasnt sue'd verizon on this yet for false advertising... |
