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Verizon to start charging to pay your bill

Just saw this comment on the droid-life comments:

I just read it again and we can still pay for free online if we use our checking or savings accounts. They only charge for the debit and credit cards. ACH doesn't get charged. Still dumb as hell but at least there is a simple work around (at least in my case.) I only used my credit card to get points anyway. :)
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Since I use a saved checking account with routing #/etc, I guess it'll remain free for me. They seem to be only charging for debit or credit charging.
 
It's only if you pay with your debit card or credit card. There was nothing said about using your checking account. I always pay by my checking so the fees won't effect me at all. Unless Verizon decide to add that also.
 
No need to mail in your payment. You can still pay online using your check account. There is no fees for that option. Doube check with a verizon CS just to make sure though.
 
Yup, I'll just use my bank's bill pay option and have my bank send them a physical check for free, it'll end up costing them more to have someone process the check. Dumb ass VZ.
 
wolverine13 said:
It's only if you pay with your debit card or credit card. There was nothing said about using your checking account. I always pay by my checking so the fees won't effect me at all. Unless Verizon decide to add that also.
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The reason they're charging the fee for paying with credit and debit cards is because the banks charge them a fee when they take a payment via those methods. The banks don't charge Verizon a fee when you pay online via your checking account.
 
Is this in our contract? If they want to charge us extra that was never mention in the original contract, can't we get out of the contract?
 
kl68 said:
Yup, I'll just use my bank's bill pay option and have my bank send them a physical check for free, it'll end up costing them more to have someone process the check. Dumb ass VZ.
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Yeah - I'm sure it was someone's great idea, but they'll learn the hard way. ;)
 
I don't see this as that big of a deal. I mean, you can still pay with credit card as long as it's with the auto pay feature (that's what I do for credit card rewards). Even if they did it for that, I'd just go back to using my bank's bill pay service which is ACH debit. As long as you practice financial responsibility, not really an impact.
 
jkc120 said:
Just saw this comment on the droid-life comments:



Since I use a saved checking account with routing #/etc, I guess it'll remain free for me. They seem to be only charging for debit or credit charging.
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Not entirely true. You can still use your credit card to pay your bill as long as it's set up for autopay. It's the one-time payment method that will charge you the convenience fee if you use debit or credit.

JSK said:
Which is stupid as you can still use a card in-store to pay your bill.

How is that any different?
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Are you positive they won't start charging a convenience fee on that, too?
 
tbzj7 said:
Ah like was brought out the most expensive company keeps getting higher and higher...
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I can't disagree with the concept that they're getting more and more expensive, but adding a convenience fee to a convenience feature isn't really an example of it.
 
WA_Bob said:
Yeah - I'm sure it was someone's great idea, but they'll learn the hard way. ;)
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I think VZ is getting more and more arrogant, they think they're the only game in town, just like how Netflix used to think of themselves and see how well that turned out. And just like what the banks were trying to do with charging people for using their debit cards - that didn't turn out so well either. I hope VZ would learn from those other companies.

And another thing, I didn't see them give me credit for switching to online billing only and saving them money by not having to print out my bill and mailing it to me. I'm going to switch it back so they'll have to send me the hard copy of bill.
 
I use the Verizon android app to pay my bills. It's set up with my checking account. Would I still get charged the $2 for doing that?
 
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