AOL is forever
Friday July 3, 2009
Categories: Consumerism
Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal writes about how America Online is trying to screw him out of $103. It's a pretty outrageous story. I've been on AOL since 1994, when it was a cool new thing to have....
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I'm sorry Rod, but AOL was never cool, even in 1994.
I've been on the Internet about 20 years ago (back before the web existed) and I distinctly remember when the Internet first started going wrong. It was signaled by the arrival of the hordes of AOL lusers, when they were granted access not just to email but to other Internet services, especially USENET (coincidentally in 1994).
And it's been all downhill ever since :)
I'm pretty sure AOL was never cool.
CompuServe was always cooler than AOL could even hope to be. RIP.
AOL -- "America Outta Luck."
Anybody else remember Prodigy?
Oh, oh, I remember Prodigy--the one with the incredibly complicated user names consisting of a string of numbers & letters!
I gotta agree about AOL --- it was way inferior to CompuServe which unfortunately it took over and destroyed.
I know someone who still has a Prodigy e-mail address.
You (or Julie) need to check your bills more closely. It's very easy for companies and even outright scam artists to slide charges in on people who are inattentive. I've had issues with issues with Time Warner, Verizon and even a bank sneaking in mysterious little fees on me. And in Michigan some years back there was a widespread fraud whereby some "company" was charging 20$ against peoeple's phone bills. If you called them to complain (which I did) they apologized very politely and immediately reversed the charge-- but enough people failed to notice it that they must have made a small fortune. The customer service rep at Ameritech (whom I had called first) implored me to go to the state authorities on this since the phone company itself, not being a victim, was powerless to lodge a complaint, but she was geting a dozen calls a week about this scam.
I was just doing our finances yesterday and noticed a charge from late last year that I believe to be in error. I don't even remember buying something from this company either. It is a lesson learned for sure. I will be keeping a closer eye when things come through on my debit/credit cards.
I was just doing our finances yesterday and noticed a charge from late last year that I believe to be in error. I don't even remember buying something from this company either. It is a lesson learned for sure. I will be keeping a closer eye when things come through on my debit/credit cards.
Dishonest, scummy company. We spent hours on the phone trying to quit. We quit, but then they charged us anyway. We tried to get AOL to reverse the charge, but to no avail. So our credit card company reversed it for us. Then, AOL turned it over to debt collectors.
Scumbag company. Dishonest company. I will never do business with them, any company that owns them, or any company they own.
It took us several tries to get out from under AOL. when they threatened to send bill collectors after us, my husband informed the customer service representative that he would get a lawyer. he was so ticked that we could hear him all the way on the second floor - he was in the basement.
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