Man receives $218,000,000,000,000 phone bill

[Sphexi]

At $5/min that's over 77 million years to rack up that kind of bill.

 

[xrax]

he should just tell them to dig up his dad and try to collect from him.

 

[her209]

Obviously, the guy called his father. Connection fees are $1 Trillion per minute to the afterlife.

 

[Brazen]

I wonder if the phone company just though "what the heck, let's send out a $218 Trillion phone bill to some random dude. If they pay, we are all set for life. If they don't pay, no big loss."

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: Brazen
I wonder if the phone company just though "what the heck, let's send out a $218 Trillion phone bill to some random dude. If they pay, we are all set for life. If they don't pay, no big loss."

other then the fact no one could ever pay that bill that would be a great idea.

 

[JS80]

Imagine the $218 Trillion accounts receivable that bill created in their accounting books haha.

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: JS80
Imagine the $218 Trillion accounts receivable that bill created in their accounting books haha.

The only way this would have slipped through is if it didn't actually record in their books at that amount. I can't imagine how anyone would let this through if it hit the books.

 

[tjaisv]

Originally posted by: lozina
Verizon execs are taking note

😀

 

[tjaisv]

Originally posted by: SarcasticDwarf

Originally posted by: allisolm
Wow! I thought the $10,000 water bill I once got was bad. Lots of people got those due to a software changeover malfunction, and I was certainly glad that they didn't have the ability to draft my account to pay the bill!

Yup. People always ask why I don't have automatic bill payment, and that is the reason why. It is 100x easier to fight a bill BEFORE you pay it than to try and get your money back.

agreed

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Kenazo

Originally posted by: JS80
Imagine the $218 Trillion accounts receivable that bill created in their accounting books haha.

The only way this would have slipped through is if it didn't actually record in their books at that amount. I can't imagine how anyone would let this through if it hit the books.

If it was automatically generated with no one monitoring the journal entries, it's possible. But then again if it didn't get stopped/noticed at billing (the billing people didn't notice their total billing was 20 times world GDP), I wouldn't be surprised if it got posted to their accounting system.

I have a feeling it was a computer error and the billing folks let it through to see what kind of reaction they would get.

 

[PHiuR]

:shocked:

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: everman
This man is obviously a wraith spy communicating long distance with operatives in the Pegasus galaxy.

Maybe, but I think someone is getting rich on this deal, I mean really rich.

 

[thescreensavers]

well he prbaly hit #90 which I think is the write number so that any long distant calls go thru that number

 

[Eeezee]

All of the money saved on the Hot Deals forum was charged to this guy's phone bill.

 

[imported_KuJaX]

Awesome, I know what telephone company to invest in.

 

[jiwq]

that might mess up his credit rating a little

 

[Shame]

He should not have said a word, and just sent them a check for $218 trillion, giving them the worse accounting nightmare ever...

 

[thescreensavers]

funarel is cheaper lol. basicly anything that can kill u is cheaper