Pet peeves
Bills that are Due Upon Receipt. What is that? It's late the day you open it. Why not just be realistic and put Net 10 or Net 15? 
How can you possibly be expected to pay a bill, that you recieved in the mail, upon receipt??? 
Whew! Okay, thanks. I feel better now.  |
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| So what if the person never recieved it? I don't think I've ever gotten bills like that, all of mine have dates and late fees after that date. |
| Lol. What's to say I didn't receive it 2 weeks from the date I opened it? They don't know! When I see those, it's an open invitation to take my time-- if they really wanted payment by a certain date, they certainly wouldn't leave it up to the postal service to dictate a date. |
| My personal favorite is when you get a bill and it was due BEFORE the postmark |
| That's a good point, Jill. Plus, if it was truly payable upon receipt, they'd have to deliver it to you in person so you could actually pay it when you receive it. Not wait for the post office to deliver whenever.
I've gotten bills like that, too, Holly. Well, never that were due before they were mailed. But like Net 10 terms and you can see by the postmark they held the bill for 8 days from the date it was run before they mailed it. Grrrrr!!! |
| that is dumb, it's funny though, because the terminology is meant to mean "send it back ASAP"
but it reads "you're already late turd" how about when the first time you hear about a bill it reads "final notice" in bold on it? |
| I would hate that, too.
While I'm spouting off, let me just say, too, that I think it stinks that companies with which you already do business (ie phone company, cable company) are allowed to telemarket you to upgrade or change your service even though you're on the DO NOT CALL list. Just because they have your number, does that make it right? I don't like it. 
 Gosh I'm crabby today. Do you think it's because I've gone without chocolate for so long??  |
Beaureguard's Mom wrote: I would hate that, too.
While I'm spouting off, let me just say, too, that I think it stinks that companies with which you already do business (ie phone company, cable company) are allowed to telemarket you to upgrade or change your service even though you're on the DO NOT CALL list. Just because they have your number, does that make it right? I don't like it. Gosh I'm crabby today. Do you think it's because I've gone without chocolate for so long?? I hate the ones that have managed to get my cell phone # and telemarket that way. Umm...you're costing me minutes & money. Drives me nuts when they call it. |
Beaureguard's Mom wrote: While I'm spouting off, let me just say, too, that I think it stinks that companies with which you already do business (ie phone company, cable company) are allowed to telemarket you to upgrade or change your service even though you're on the DO NOT CALL list. Just because they have your number, does that make it right? I don't like it.
:It's the entire reason that I no longer have a home phone. Without exaggeration, 99% of calls were telemarketers so I was, essentially, paying almost $40 a month to be harassed. Last time I checked, harassment was a free service offered to me daily right here at work. |
Quote: Without exaggeration, 99% of calls were telemarketers so I was, essentially, paying almost $40 a month to be harassed. Last time I checked, harassment was a free service offered to me daily right here at work.
My thoughts exactly! |
| My biggest peeve is when you get a final notice and never received the original bill in the first place It's happen twice with me Arrrgh. |
Beaureguard's Mom wrote: While I'm spouting off, let me just say, too, that I think it stinks that companies with which you already do business (ie phone company, cable company) are allowed to telemarket you to upgrade or change your service even though you're on the DO NOT CALL list. Just because they have your number, does that make it right? I don't like it.
Ditto! My bank calls me all the time to get me to transfer credit card balances or sell me other stupid services they've made up. What a pain! |
| LOL!!I have gotten bills like his also.I know its wrong but I purposly make my bill late just so the company WILl call me,at this point I tell them..."Oh my goodness,I forgot ALL about this little bill,you see I just got back from a summer/winter home in Australia and I forgot ALL about it."The bill collector "WOW!!MAam that must be nice?"hehe!!! Its funny how thye react too the most exotic vacations!! One of my HUGE pet peeves is when im holding the door open for someone like at a store and they walk through and DONT say THANK YOU!!!!Usually people 1/2way through the door will say THANK YOU,so if I dont hear that i let the door go,OR once they walk through ill say real loud YOUR WELCOME!!!!!!GAWD~~ |
bestdogsx4 wrote: My personal favorite is when you get a bill and it was due BEFORE the postmark
Don't we ALL love that one! |
| I actually got a letter from a collection agency 2 1/2 years after my
gall bladder surgery for the anesthesiologist. I had never gotten any bill from them in the first place. Not one. I called them to point this out, and they didn't deny that they had never sent me a bill. Two weeks later my mother got a collection notice for the same office for the same Dr! Hers was only 1 1/2 years old- guess they were just getting caught up on paperwork. Excuse me for being picky, but when a letter comes through my post office marked "collection notice" on the OUTSIDE of envelope, I get a tad testy! I live in a very small town - and the people at the post office talk. I was offended. Like when you get postcards in the mail from somewhere claiming " We can help you repair your credit!" Not only do I not need their services, but that should be illegal! I am so sick of stupid people! Shellie |
| 2 1/2 years? Hmmmm, I'm not a lawyer, but they may not have the legal right to go after that after not demanding payment for 2 1/2 years.
Any ummm lawyers out there to give us contract law just for the heck of it? I say "just for the heck of it" because Shellie is gonna tell us she paid it many years ago anyway. |
ButtersStotch wrote: It's the entire reason that I no longer have a home phone. Without exaggeration, 99% of calls were telemarketers so I was, essentially, paying almost $40 a month to be harassed. Last time I checked, harassment was a free service offered to me daily right here at work. I signed up for a vonage internet phone a year ago. I've had no wrong numbers, no sales calls, no marketing calls of any kind. its 29.00 dollars a month and I can talk anywhere I want for as long as I want. I love it! |
| Look at SunRocket. I pay $199 a year (that's about $16.58 a month)
Also, add your line to the national do not call registry. You can do that at https://www.donotcall.gov/ |
| My biggest pet peeve is this....Ron keeps posting that nasty tick bite picture!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
deograine wrote: I signed up for a vonage internet phone a year ago. I've had no wrong numbers, no sales calls, no marketing calls of any kind. its 29.00 dollars a month and I can talk anywhere I want for as long as I want. I love it!
My bigger problem is that I don't want to answer the phone no matter who it is. These days I'm always looking for a way to make myself more inaccessible! |
| You could set up Clyde's answering service...he'll only pass to you the important calls...
And I agree with Darcy's pet peeve!! |
| Naaah I thought that was hilarious, especially the awful, awful and tragic side effects LOL. Poor, poor ron/george, Very Very glad we don't have ticks like that here!! |
| If they can't pronouce my last name correctly I either hang up or tell them she's not home. |
| Forms that say "detach bottom/top portion and mail" and are NOT perferated to tear!!! |
| I use two tactics depending on my mood: I'm the dogsitter while she's in jail and (in a sad, hushed tone) I'm so sorry you haven't heard, she died last night Either way they have no idea what to say and hang |
| My bank calls several times a month trying to get me to transfer credit card balances to them. I always tell them that I don't have any credit card debt (whether or not it's true at that moment). There is NOTHING on the call center script that tells them how to respond to that. I get dead silence while the call center employee tries to figure out what to say. Then I hang up.
But they keep calling back... |
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