Re: Speakeasy can lick my salty balls!

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MeKuN join:2004-07-21 Eugene, OR	reply to kapil Re: Speakeasy can lick my salty balls! Im just confused. Why didnt they just raise rates instead of making a bogus fee. It makes no sense to me at all. They just come off looking like greedy asses instead of just greedy.
MeKuN join:2004-07-21 Eugene, OR	to forum · permalink · · 2006-08-25 20:05:20 ·
insomniac84 join:2002-01-03 Schererville, IN	Because companies aren't forced to include fees in their advertised price. So they made up the bogus fee to try to make it seem prices aren't going up.
insomniac84 join:2002-01-03 Schererville, IN	to forum · permalink · · 2006-08-25 20:11:11 ·
whatthe join:2003-05-13 Urbandale, IA	Why are telco's allowed to charge all these bogus fees? I can't think of any other industry that is this bad. I swear a land line bill is 2X the advertised rate. Haven't other sectors figured out how to buy off the politicians?
whatthe join:2003-05-13 Urbandale, IA	to forum · permalink · · 2006-08-25 22:50:40 ·
rip_sketches join:2002-05-25 Dallas, GA	The fees aren't/weren't meant to be bogus when they were first implemented. Take the Universal Service Fund for example, a fee the government imposed on carriers to subsidize communications services in rural areas. In practice, say in an apartment complex where a mile of copper would serve 100 customers, tacking this fee on was supposed to help offset the cost of running 10 miles of copper just to service one single customer. The reality today is that the copper is already there yet they continue to charge this fee to DSL customers only to turn around and NOT continue building out their service in the more rural areas as it was meant to be used. They were only using it to pad their bottom lines while it didn't have to be included in the advertised prices. Just color me suprised at the low amount of responses to this story as this was one of the biggest HOT-Button issues when I first joined up here at DSLR.
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cork1958 Cork join:2000-02-26 Fruitport, MI ·Verizon Online DSL ·Charter Pipeline	reply to MeKuN said by MeKuN : Im just confused. Why didnt they just raise rates instead of making a bogus fee. It makes no sense to me at all. They just come off looking like greedy asses instead of just greedy. You mean they come off looking like the people they are?!! -- Spread Free Opera. Fastest browser on Earth or in Cyberspace!!
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