Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!chinet!patrick
From: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PC Pursuit pricing amendment
Message-ID: <7410@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 8 Jan 89 14:19:05 GMT
References: <8901050251.AA14569@nessus.telenet.com> <2384@isis.UUCP> <7400@chinet.chi.il.us> <630@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Reply-To: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <630@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes:
>Either you have inside information, or your reading something into
>the messages which really isn't there.  Telenet has said that users
>will receive a bill on or about the 15th of the following month which
>says how many hours you are billed for.  They have not said what form
>this billing will take.  There have been many messages which ask for
>just such a detailed billing procedure, but none from Telenet.
>                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I think it is valid to question the form of the new bills.  A
>bill which simply lists total hours and cost due is unacceptable.
>Would you pay a phone bill which said "By mah reckonin' you dun 40
>hours of phone callin'.  You owes me $75."?
>
>The point is exaggerated, but it is still an unanswered issue.

The second letter from Telenet, which amended the original letter from last
weekend, referred to DETAILED billing after the initial 30 hour package was
used. If the bill for Pursuit even slightly resembles the bill for Telemail
(a Telenet product for which I have an account) or the billing sent to their
corporate customers, it will be *quite* detailed. The billing I get for
Telemail lists to the minute the amount of time I was online via the toll
free 800 number, for example, and the number of messages sent, etc.

The tone of your message makes it sound as if those people are real shysters
who practice mail fraud by sending out undocumented bills. 


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