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I had to go out of the country, so I overpaid my AT&T internet bill so it would cover 2 months and rounded up by ~10 cents to the nearest dollar amount.

First month bill, no problem. Second month bill, no problem.

Third month bill should be $amount -credit, nope. They took my credit, listed it as an underpayment and applied a fee.

So I go to the store; they can't help with account issues, you have to call.

I call, sit through the waiting music, get a rep who get a rep is quite obviously doesn't care. No "Sorry for our obvious billing mistake" or anything. They correct the account and ask if I will pay right now, I decide that I will since I don't trust their system to update in a timely manner.

The rep then has the audacity to talk about how AT&T charges a convenience fee to pay via phone but they are going to waive it this time.

AT&T fiber and Xfinity cable are the only options in my area....

I still can not understand how they made that error in the first place. It's not like accounting, credits and balances are a new thing. The bill even showed the credit transaction correctly, showing it coming out of the bill balance owed.



> I overpaid my AT&T internet bill so it would cover 2 months

That's a bit XX century, why not have some form of automatic payment?

(Not that it wasn't moronic of them, but you probably hit what now is a corner case ...)


I do set up auto payment when I am sure the bill will be stable, this was while I was still in the introduction rate and I wanted to be aware of when the price change hit.

Now the question is, since they messed up what should be a simple accounting transaction, do I trust their billing system to have unfettered access to take funds from my bank :)


It’s AT&T - no, don’t trust them with anything. Preferably not even with being their customer.




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