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From: lrosen@sunybcs.UUCP (Leonard Rosenblum)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: A typical utility story and a proposal
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Date: Sun, 26-Jan-86 14:54:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 26 14:54:06 1986
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> Ok, this sort of stupidity has happened to many of us, what I wonder is:
> 
> Why can't I do something like sign a form which says look, here's a
> credit-card number, if you are about to do something stupid like shut
> me off over less than (pick a number, $25) then I give you authority
> to just send in a charge slip and we can settle it later. Add a reasonable
> ...
> a thing, as for me I'd be willing to gamble $25 or $50 against ending
> such stupidity as I described above, if I got annoyed I assume I could
> 	-Barry Shein, Boston University

No, I would not be willing to pay for their error.
A credit card number is the same as billing you since you can still
contest the charges and not pay.
Perhaps what you would like to do is overpay the utility say $25-$50
so you always have a credit.  Better yet, how about sending them a
seperate check (like a secuity deposit) calling it an error deposit
that they can cash only when they make an error?

I figure, if they make an error once, a deposit will not change it,
they will just take it too.

-- 
<<<--- Lenny --->>>
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