Monthly telephone billing for adult sites
Are there sites out there offering this as a payment option? Below is my orginal post about this in another thread :
You may know more about it than I do, I happened upon this as a victim.
I am a pretty busy person, and didn't check my telephone bills for accuracy... I just paid. I moved in June and began to look over my telephone bills because I had changed a lot of services and wanted to make sure I was being billed correctly. Well there was a $24.95 charge from Integretel Inc. underneath this charge was something to the effect of "for questions about these charges call 1-888-xxx-xxxx." Also listed was the web site www.integretel.com which has changed dramatically in the months since June. At that time, the whole site was complete bullshit. You couldn't figure out what they did or sold, or if they even did/sold anything. It was unreal, me and my partner had a good laugh about it. So, I called the number...I was on hold for atleast 40 minutes being bounced around the "I'll transfer you to the person who does that" game. Each time the new person would answer, I'd have to give my whole story and then they'd say "let me transfer you to the person who handles that." Finally I said , "No, don't transfer me!" This particular woman must have had a glimmer of a soul left because she stayed on the line with me. She told me I had been being billed $24.95 a month since November 2001. I was outraged! She said that my business had signed to be on their online business directory. I told her that I had not signed up for any such service and furthermore, who in their right mind would pay $24.95 a month to be on their list which I still have yet to see? So in conclusion, I got her to cancel my account and I got off the phone in total disbelief that Bellsouth would be in business with these scam artists. I consider myself to be a savvy individual and I was taken for a total of $499.00 over a 20 month period. And I did not even know of the ability to charge someone's phone bill a monthly fee for service unrelated to the telephone. I thought then and now, "How scary would porn webmasters be with this ability?"
This is not about my $499.00 or the fact that it was a scam- I made this post to talk about billing. Is this the next big thing in billing? Is it being done?
Edit: It was nothing related to calling/dialing anywhere. It was a monthly charge to be on their list that was billed to my telephone bill.
http://www.integretel.com/about/1-2.asp
http://www.integretel.com/contact/4-1.asp
You may know more about it than I do, I happened upon this as a victim.
I am a pretty busy person, and didn't check my telephone bills for accuracy... I just paid. I moved in June and began to look over my telephone bills because I had changed a lot of services and wanted to make sure I was being billed correctly. Well there was a $24.95 charge from Integretel Inc. underneath this charge was something to the effect of "for questions about these charges call 1-888-xxx-xxxx." Also listed was the web site www.integretel.com which has changed dramatically in the months since June. At that time, the whole site was complete bullshit. You couldn't figure out what they did or sold, or if they even did/sold anything. It was unreal, me and my partner had a good laugh about it. So, I called the number...I was on hold for atleast 40 minutes being bounced around the "I'll transfer you to the person who does that" game. Each time the new person would answer, I'd have to give my whole story and then they'd say "let me transfer you to the person who handles that." Finally I said , "No, don't transfer me!" This particular woman must have had a glimmer of a soul left because she stayed on the line with me. She told me I had been being billed $24.95 a month since November 2001. I was outraged! She said that my business had signed to be on their online business directory. I told her that I had not signed up for any such service and furthermore, who in their right mind would pay $24.95 a month to be on their list which I still have yet to see? So in conclusion, I got her to cancel my account and I got off the phone in total disbelief that Bellsouth would be in business with these scam artists. I consider myself to be a savvy individual and I was taken for a total of $499.00 over a 20 month period. And I did not even know of the ability to charge someone's phone bill a monthly fee for service unrelated to the telephone. I thought then and now, "How scary would porn webmasters be with this ability?"
This is not about my $499.00 or the fact that it was a scam- I made this post to talk about billing. Is this the next big thing in billing? Is it being done?
Edit: It was nothing related to calling/dialing anywhere. It was a monthly charge to be on their list that was billed to my telephone bill.
http://www.integretel.com/about/1-2.asp
http://www.integretel.com/contact/4-1.asp
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