 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 | $3.45 (new fees) - $2.50 (existing fees) = $0.95 hike It would be helpful if the news item actually included the correct math.
I find it interesting that people are canceling over $11.40/year. |
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| You guys must be reading something different than me. I see $3.45 hike placed in below the line charges.
That looks accurate to me. VT charges one price say $199 for year plan then is adding another $3.45 a month to that. No mention of the original $2.50 bogus charges.
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espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 | The $2.50 fee has been in their ToS since 2006.
See: »[ViaTalk] ViaTalk TOS Change October 4 2006 |
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Not really, I'm not paying the $2.50 a month right now, so this equals a $3.45 rate hike. Not only that, right now I don't have a bill, having been prepaid, so this equals a new bill, and something small and annoying.
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said by dcurrey:You guys must be reading something different than me. I see $3.45 hike placed in below the line charges. That looks accurate to me. VT charges one price say $199 for year plan then is adding another $3.45 a month to that. No mention of the original $2.50 bogus charges. A hike is an increase or rise, often sharp and unexpected, from what it just was. So the fee hike in this case is actually $0.95 (not so sharp, but definitely unexpected).
Definitions of "hike" from dictionary.com:
-to increase, often sharply and unexpectedly: to hike the price of milk. -noun
-an increase or rise, often sharp and unexpected: a hike in wages. -Idiom
Saying the hike is $3.45, when people have been paying $2.50 of that amount for over a year, is misleading. The way it is posted sounds like there was no "below the line" amount before, but now there is...and it's $3.45. |
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BPremium,MVM
join:2000-10-28
3 edits | said by [ CyberSultan  ]A hike is an increase or rise, often sharp and unexpected, from what it just was. So the fee hike in this case is actually $0.95 (not so sharp, but definitely unexpected). Not so sharp? It's a 38% increase, with no warning, without cause, effective immediately, and contrary to assertions of 2 months ago.
Yes, this is quibbling, and the increase is tiny by most measures, but...
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P.S. Agreed the headline is ultimately misleading, but the so-very-slightly-sensationalistic slant is one thing I like about Karl's headlines. 
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Don't confuse Karl with facts; it would destroy his one-way reporting that the world (corporations) is evil and he thinks all should be free or nearly free because he knows the Net and computers.   
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said by B:Not so sharp? It's a 38% increase, with no warning, without cause, effective immediately The sharpness feels to me more like getting poked by the back-side of a sewing needle. Stings a bit, but could be worse (like the other side of the needle). |
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