Let me get this straight, Verizon wants to charge me $2 for paying my bill?

[spidey07]

Using a credit card doesn't make you a dead beat. I use my credit cards for everything. Personally I enjoy the several hundred dollars of free money I get back every year. It is possible to use a credit card and pay it off every month.

So you thinksmokey is free?

 

[Dulanic]

Yes. If u cannot pay your bills properly than you have much greater problems. Most all utities work this way. Pay your damn bills.

I do pay my bills you pretentious ass.

 

[spidey07]

I do pay my bills you pretentious ass.

If you pay them according to what you agreed then this doest affect you.

 

[Engineer]

If you pay them according to what you agreed then this doest affect you.

I have never in my life seen someone lobby for the corporations over his fellow man in all of my life. Do you even use Verizon? If so, why does this even matter to you? If they raise your rates, just move on to another or ask them to lower it back down? It is as simple as that, period. Damn man.

 

[OverVolt]

If you cannot pay your bills with using a last minute credit card you are a deadbeat who cannot manage their bills properly.

Consequences to poor behavior should be painful. Ka fees.

If one is using a credit card to pay bills one has much deeper finacinal trouble than one is realizing.

Spidey none of their competitors had a similar fee. Why would you argue for more fees?

I have about a years worth of bills in the bank. Since that more than likely makes me better at paying my bills how about I get them to charge you a $2 fee since I'm better at it.

This is probably the worst possible time -ever- to be throwing fellow people under the bus for corporate profits. If Verizon's competitors don't need a similar fee to make a profit then why does Verizon? If a company is a failure I switch companies. Such is the way of capitalism.

 

[x-alki]

Looks like the OP is off the hook
http://news.yahoo.com/fcc-looking-verizon-wireless-2-fee-201035877.html

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Its like in China when you get executed infront of the firing squad. The bill for the bullet get sent to your family.

 

[boomhower]

So you thinksmokey is free?

It's free to me. It's not to those that don't pay there balance every month and pay the high interest rates rewards cards come with.

Credit card fees are a cost of doing business. None of my other bills have a charge to use them. Only thing I can't pay with a credit card is my water bill and car payment. They are just trying to squeeze out more profit, can't say I blame them. It just didn't work in this case.

 

[CPA]

Looks like the OP is off the hook
http://news.yahoo.com/fcc-looking-verizon-wireless-2-fee-201035877.html

Congratulations, you all saved me $2. Whoops, I don't pay with a cc, so it doesn't save me anything. Congratulations to the rest of you. Now, we can move on towards the utility companies, right?

 

[Engineer]

Congratulations, you all saved me $2. Whoops, I don't pay with a cc, so it doesn't save me anything. Congratulations to the rest of you. Now, we can move on towards the utility companies, right?

Sure. Anything to lower costs for the consumer is GOOD.

 

[CPA]

Sure. Anything to lower costs for the consumer is GOOD.

Good, as long as we're all in agreement that this is more than just some big, bad, evil corporation trying to nickle and dime us to death.

So, when does Dave start the posts about the government surcharges?

 

[destrekor]

And here lies the stupidity.

Prices are 2 - 3% higher to cover CC fees, and people love it because they "get back" 1% from the CC company.

In the case of Verizon, these fees have been part of their cost of business forever, and they just wanted to add a few hundred million dollars per year to their revenue at virtually no cost. Soon they'll add a surcharge to cover the cost of their corporate jets used for executive "retreats".

This is likely not something to pad their revenue stream, at all.
This is likely an attempt to try and get back into the comfortable revenue stream they once knew, before they introduced the iPhone on their network.

Apple mandates a $450 subsidy on the iPhone, so Verizon is losing more money up front than they are comfortable parting with. They have resorted to numerous other shafty avenues to recoup what they figure was once theirs all along... just look to 4G-capable premium phones at $300 on contract. LTE (besides the cost to implement the network) doesn't really add anything noticeable to a phone's cost. They are using higher prices like that to try and average out how much Verizon is paying for subsidies, so that the stockholders are appeased.

And yep, I'll be sticking with Verizon still... I still have unlimited data (w/4G ) and their overall service (I accept growing pains, I'm realistic) is fantastic.

 

[sdifox]

If Verizon is really so pissed about CC surcharges, they are big enough to not take CC payment period.