DH makes $400k/year and is on the phone arguing with the gas company over $50

[Anonymous]

If it bothers your husband this much, maybe he should start a go-fund-me page.

[Anonymous]

I admire people who do this. They are such an annoyance to the company, they provide a spur to make companies put in controls to prevent such poor billing.

But I'm a free rider of their efforts. I would say I got off cheap for $50 and would let it go.

[Anonymous]

I agree with OP.
We only have a finite number of hours before life is over.
There is an opportunity cost to spending an hour on the phone haggling over $50.

[Anonymous]

Um…that’s normal. You shouldn’t have to pay something that you don’t owe.

DH is doing your dirty work. When my DH does this, I am grateful.

[Anonymous]

This is why your DH makes $400k/yr. Never scum suckers leech off you and nickel and dime you.

[Anonymous]

He can’t help it that the phone conversation is so inefficient. Let him go.

[Anonymous]

Do we really know whether or not the $50 charge is legitimate ?

[Anonymous]

My DH took on a pro bono case where he spent hundreds of hours of his free time arguing over a liability of his client's that was only a few hundred dollars. Winning the case led to a precedential opinion. It sends a message to big companies not to take advantage of consumers just because they can. The principle matters more than you realize.

[Anonymous]

I think he should go for it.

I spent 5 months getting money back from Amex and American Traffic Solutions for incorrectly charging me for a highway toll that I paid cash for -- and then charging me ANOTHER fee for every day of my rental, because there was a transponder in the rental car. This fee was charged every day of my trip for days I didn't drive on toll roads wasn't using the transponder and there was no way to remove the transponder from the rental car to prevent it from being scanned.

When I told Amex that they could deal with American Traffic Solutions on my behalf or lose me as a customer for the next 40 years, they refunded my money.

So, your husband? Yes. Get that money back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH took on a pro bono case where he spent hundreds of hours of his free time arguing over a liability of his client's that was only a few hundred dollars. Winning the case led to a precedential opinion. It sends a message to big companies not to take advantage of consumers just because they can. The principle matters more than you realize.

Yes!

I'm the rental car poster. I believe it made a difference, because rental car companies changed how they do things. My assumption is that enough of us complained, and I know people were pissed because I found complaints about American Traffic Solutions on the internet. Horrible company.

[Anonymous]

He’s mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore!

[Anonymous]

I just got a bill from Delaware for 80 bucks on an unpaid 50 cent toll (79.50 in penalties) from years ago for a car I didn’t own or drive from when I was nowhere near Delaware.

Op’s hubby has given me hope!

Also apparently DE has no way to enforce it but still pisses me off

[Anonymous]

Folks, call on your medical bills too. Pretty much all medical bills are negotiable. I managed to get $40,000 of medical bills down to around $9000. It took me about 2 hours on the phone. This was a number of phone calls had I had to call the hospital, doctors, labs etc all to get negotiated rates.

I called A/P at each location. I'd tell each phone answerer that we really could not afford the bill and what was the best price that they could give me.

[Anonymous]

OMG, OP. Do you make any money?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Folks, call on your medical bills too. Pretty much all medical bills are negotiable. I managed to get $40,000 of medical bills down to around $9000. It took me about 2 hours on the phone. This was a number of phone calls had I had to call the hospital, doctors, labs etc all to get negotiated rates.

I called A/P at each location. I'd tell each phone answerer that we really could not afford the bill and what was the best price that they could give me.

No insurance?