Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn't Use (dslreports.com)

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Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn't Use (dslreports.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday September 16, 2016 @06:00AM from the insane-internet-pains dept.

A Verizon Wireless customer says she received a bill of $9,100 for hundreds of gigabytes of data usage which never consumed. The woman told the Cleveland Plain Dealer she was on Verizon's 4GB shared data plan, and like any normal person, the bill of $8,535 from Verizon for consuming 569GB of data in a matter of few days doesn't compute well with her. The problem, as DSLR reports, is that when she tried to find out what caused the data usage, Verizon website told her "the activity you are trying to perform is currently unavailable. Please try again later." She couldn't and switched to T-Mobile, after which Verizon charged her a penalty of $600.

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New form of measurement? by Nidi62 · 2016-09-16 06:03 · Score: 5, Funny

If $600 is now referred to as a "plenty", what would the $9,100 be?

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1. Re:New form of measurement? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-09-16 06:10 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  One and a half decaplenties.
2. Re:New form of measurement? by SeaFox · 2016-09-16 08:54 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  If $600 is now referred to as a "plenty", what would the $9,100 be?
  She should just cut them a check for $91.00 -- they'll consider the bill paid in full.
"a plenty of $600" by Anonymous Coward · 2016-09-16 06:10 · Score: 2, Funny

Thank you for writing the needful.
SpeedTest by Thelasko · 2016-09-16 06:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Now we know what happens to all of that data that's routed through /speedtest.

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Re:sue first by jetkust · 2016-09-16 06:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Chase was trying to take his turnips because they though they had blood in them. So he threatened to sue them, but lost interest in the turnips already well before Chase gave them back.