http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20749320 en Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:52:03 EDT Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:52:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20757515 xpkranger : I'm not an attorney (but I do work for attorneys, [sarcasm]so naturally I'm an expert [/sarcasm]) so I can't speak to the legality of imbalanced contracts. Seems like a reasonable thing to do, but I would think that it would inherently leave itself open to too much interpretation.

I think it is very possible that the telco could have been in every manner well within it's rights to charge the giant bill, but when he statred squawking to the media and got an attorney who gets paid to squawk, the telco simply made a business decision not to press the issue. It would have cost them more in bad press than they could have possibly made from this one consumer. This way, the telco can look merciful and even magnanimous to this pitiful consumer.
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The early bird may get the worm, but the second rat gets the cheese.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20757515 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:54:08 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20753553 dnoyeB : I don't think so. If it were about that he would not have been able to get his bill reduced with an attourney. I think its more that if they intend to charge you an insane amount for a service then they really should not offer that service. The price he was charged is unreasonable and should never have been on the table. Even in a contract.

As you know, completely imbalanced contracts are illegal. At least in Michigan.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20753553 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:41:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20752037 morbo : unfortunately yes. this isn't about that issue though. it's about a contract and the terms of the contract that spells out cost for international roaming, etc.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20752037 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:20:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20751083 NOCMan : Is it fair to charge 62k when the actual costs for data, services, support etc, may only total tens of dollars not thousands.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20751083 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:42:03 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20750524 Dogfather : It's hard to, especially when telco agents themselves are often too stupid figure out the plans they're selling.

»Verizon's Dubious Math Skills]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20750524 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:39:05 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20749320 morbo : Lets be honest here--there will always be people that don't read the restrictions and differences in pricing with services. $62k for downloading movies is shocking to everyone. Economic darwinism. Idiots will always pay more.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20749320 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:21:08 EDT