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Verizon Adds $2 Fee For Month-To-Month Credit Card Bills
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Garth Johnston
Published Dec 29, 2011
Modified Dec 29, 2011
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Verizon! In the latest example of a corporation trying to nickel and dime its customers, the telecom giant has announced a new "$2 payment convenience fee" for people who, well, want to pay their bill. Basically if you are the kind of person who can't commit to auto-paying your phone bill and like to pay online or on your phone, well, your bill is going to be going up two bucks a month starting on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, January 15.
Yeah, there are ways to go month-to-month without incurring the fee—electronic check, a Verizon gift card, paper check in the mail, or paying in person at a Verizon store—but if you want to pay your bill online or on your phone, well, be ready to part with two hundred pennies.
So, why is Verizon doing this? According to Big Red, "The fee will help allow us to continue to support these single bill payment options in these channels [the still free options] and is designed to address costs incurred by us for only those customers who choose to make single bill payments in alternate payment channels (online, mobile, telephone)." So...basically Verizon (which is not exactly in the poor house) found a place where they could wring out a few extra pennies and is doing just that. What comes after this? Fees for accessing more than 100 cell towers in a month?
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