Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!pollux.usc.edu!papa
From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tymnet -> BIX 33% rate hike effective immediately
Message-ID: <21053@usc.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 89 18:20:41 GMT
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Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA
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If you are a BIX subscriber, you might have been 'doublebilled' on
your Tymnet charges.  I got double-billed 3 times, until I quit BIX.
Quite a large number of BIX users found themselves being double-billed
on the Tymenet charges.  Who knows how many others have been ripped off
the same way and don't even know it (those who don't check their credit 
card statement).  The double billing started at the same time that the
new flat rates went into effect.  As of last month, the double billing
snafus were still happening. It is possible that a formal complaint
to the FCC will be filed against BIX.  If you are a BIX subscriber,
and have not checked your credit card bills, you'd better do that.

IMHO, since the new flat rates were instituted on BIX, BIX has become 
an unusable system: incredibly slow; often 'shut' for lack of
lines.  The software itself is worse than the 'average' bbs (no clear
screen; text continuously scrolls).  All this apart from the billing
frauds (and I call it fraud because BIX has been aware of the double
billing overcharges for months and has done nothing to fix the problem).
I consider BIX the WORSE system overall of all the public networks I 
have used.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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