stupid people love money
Oh I just have to talk about this fool. See, about 4 years ago we signed on with a security company. For a 3 year contract we got a couple door sensors, two motion sensors, and a control panel. By year two we couldn't be bothered to use it. Firstly it had bothered us too many times with false alarms, once while we were sleeping! I mean, not like we'd done it, it just would call the monitoring station and they'd call us, sitting quietly at home unaware!
Nevermind the problem that we could only come in the back door so we could turn it off, had to teach it to anyone we wanted access into our homes, or that it did in fact go off a few times too, during failed input efforts. Either we didn't get our fingers on it soon enough, or we entered something wrong either turning it on, or off, and it went off. Oh my goodness. And when there was a power outtage it wouldn't shut up either, beeping like a smoke alarm with a dead battery! Now we've already got a parrot and a dog, and used to have two parrots and three dogs. When something happened, they could really go off. Sam and Sarah and Timmy could still drive an intruder out even if the rabbit didn't help, and heck, even just having a fluffy white rabbit attack freaks out almost everyone I've ever met. So yeah, we didn't need the thing.
I started checking the dates and when the payments didn't quit coming out, I checked with the company. They told me to send an email with assorted details including personal data and account number to ensure it was me, and saying I wanted to stop. About six months later, since this wasn't getting me anywhere, I put a stop on the payment via the bank.
Now it was only $35 so we weren't hurting for it, but I was feeling rather cheated by now. First off because the product we'd bought was crap, but now because I had to put a cancel via the bank even after sending the required info.
A bill came in, stating we owed them for the remainder of the contract, please pay. I mean, for the service into the future I hadn't gotten, you know? Something like $279 I think it was. I collected all my paper into a folder and put it in a findable spot in case I got served for court and let it be.
A short time later we got some calls from some credit bureau thing. I didn't answer the phone but I didnt' research the number and name. A collection agency! I did a little investigation and discovered that my contract had what is known as an "evergreen clause" in it. I remembered being told about it. He said it was just for my convenience and that a simple letter to them would cancel it easily enough. Not to worry, he said. He was very assertive and hyper, in a hurry to get to the next sale and between him and now my husband making it seem like I was being a nervous nellie, I just signed the thing.
Now they wanted me to pay them for 3 years and technically, I legally owe them. However, from what I've seen of these things in court, they would lose the case and not be able to use the clause at all in future. Not only would they lose their pittance from me, but damage their profit model!
So I don't answer the collection agency. So she leaves me messages. She calls me on my cell phone since my home phone includes a blocking feature and I guess it lets the other party know they are on the list of blocked callers. She has never told me why she is calling, just tells me her first name as thoough we are old bffs and her number to call. now she whines about being bloccked on my home phhone as though i'm hurting her feelings. I can't help but wonder if she's simple minded. I mean, they never have answered your call and even blocked it, don't you think they know why you're calling and what it's about? They have clearly made their position very clear and it's time to do whatever it is you want to threaten to do if you could only get them on the phone! I mean, how much teeth would that call have if there's still no teeth in the messages? "I don't know why you've blocked me, I have to call your cell phone because I'm blocked on your home phone, please call?" I mean, like WHAT? She's a financial pitbull sent to try and force victims to cough up money and she wonders why I'd block her? Heheh. Too bad the cell phone can't do the same but really, I don't answer phones unless I know I want to talk to the other end. I suspect that's become the norm as our lines suffer constant robo call abuse day and night. If you want to get through, your best bet is an honest caller ID and a good reason. I don't answer long distance, I don't answer unknown, and I don't pick up for people who just want to annoy me about money. Money is a means to an end, it's fake nonsense that I use to convince people who hate me to give me stuff anyway. It's not worth committing crimes over. It's not worth abusing and hurting others over. It's not worth sitting on. It's not worth saving. It's not worth giving up more than your free time and resources for and only if you can immediately trade it for something real, like food and goods. It's not worth focusing your life on it. It's not pretty to look at. It has no value outside the value someone else places on it when they give you something for the stuff. It is worth exactly as much as the stuff they give you. Money is truly a hallucination we're all stuck in.
Nevermind the problem that we could only come in the back door so we could turn it off, had to teach it to anyone we wanted access into our homes, or that it did in fact go off a few times too, during failed input efforts. Either we didn't get our fingers on it soon enough, or we entered something wrong either turning it on, or off, and it went off. Oh my goodness. And when there was a power outtage it wouldn't shut up either, beeping like a smoke alarm with a dead battery! Now we've already got a parrot and a dog, and used to have two parrots and three dogs. When something happened, they could really go off. Sam and Sarah and Timmy could still drive an intruder out even if the rabbit didn't help, and heck, even just having a fluffy white rabbit attack freaks out almost everyone I've ever met. So yeah, we didn't need the thing.
I started checking the dates and when the payments didn't quit coming out, I checked with the company. They told me to send an email with assorted details including personal data and account number to ensure it was me, and saying I wanted to stop. About six months later, since this wasn't getting me anywhere, I put a stop on the payment via the bank.
Now it was only $35 so we weren't hurting for it, but I was feeling rather cheated by now. First off because the product we'd bought was crap, but now because I had to put a cancel via the bank even after sending the required info.
A bill came in, stating we owed them for the remainder of the contract, please pay. I mean, for the service into the future I hadn't gotten, you know? Something like $279 I think it was. I collected all my paper into a folder and put it in a findable spot in case I got served for court and let it be.
A short time later we got some calls from some credit bureau thing. I didn't answer the phone but I didnt' research the number and name. A collection agency! I did a little investigation and discovered that my contract had what is known as an "evergreen clause" in it. I remembered being told about it. He said it was just for my convenience and that a simple letter to them would cancel it easily enough. Not to worry, he said. He was very assertive and hyper, in a hurry to get to the next sale and between him and now my husband making it seem like I was being a nervous nellie, I just signed the thing.
Now they wanted me to pay them for 3 years and technically, I legally owe them. However, from what I've seen of these things in court, they would lose the case and not be able to use the clause at all in future. Not only would they lose their pittance from me, but damage their profit model!
So I don't answer the collection agency. So she leaves me messages. She calls me on my cell phone since my home phone includes a blocking feature and I guess it lets the other party know they are on the list of blocked callers. She has never told me why she is calling, just tells me her first name as thoough we are old bffs and her number to call. now she whines about being bloccked on my home phhone as though i'm hurting her feelings. I can't help but wonder if she's simple minded. I mean, they never have answered your call and even blocked it, don't you think they know why you're calling and what it's about? They have clearly made their position very clear and it's time to do whatever it is you want to threaten to do if you could only get them on the phone! I mean, how much teeth would that call have if there's still no teeth in the messages? "I don't know why you've blocked me, I have to call your cell phone because I'm blocked on your home phone, please call?" I mean, like WHAT? She's a financial pitbull sent to try and force victims to cough up money and she wonders why I'd block her? Heheh. Too bad the cell phone can't do the same but really, I don't answer phones unless I know I want to talk to the other end. I suspect that's become the norm as our lines suffer constant robo call abuse day and night. If you want to get through, your best bet is an honest caller ID and a good reason. I don't answer long distance, I don't answer unknown, and I don't pick up for people who just want to annoy me about money. Money is a means to an end, it's fake nonsense that I use to convince people who hate me to give me stuff anyway. It's not worth committing crimes over. It's not worth abusing and hurting others over. It's not worth sitting on. It's not worth saving. It's not worth giving up more than your free time and resources for and only if you can immediately trade it for something real, like food and goods. It's not worth focusing your life on it. It's not pretty to look at. It has no value outside the value someone else places on it when they give you something for the stuff. It is worth exactly as much as the stuff they give you. Money is truly a hallucination we're all stuck in.