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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / September 2003Article: Cingular to not return payment checks
In the San Francisco Chronicle 9/5/2003 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/05/BU3 01388.DTL "...The change being made is that Cingular will debit payments electronically from customers' bank accounts. Checks will not be sent to the bank for clearing and thus will not be returned with bank statements. Customers will still have to send in checks, though. This is how the debit process will be initiated each month. Cingular just won't go to the trouble of sending them on, thus saving the company a considerable amount of money -- although it won't specify the exact sum. ..."  SignatureFrank Harris in San Francisco Frank Harris <frankbhX@XcompuserveX.com> wrote in message news:<bjcs59 > Customers will still have to send in checks, though. This is how the > debit process will be initiated each month. Cingular just won't go to > the trouble of sending them on, thus saving the company a considerable > amount of money -- although it won't specify the exact sum. ..." This is cause for being able to terminate your service without a termination fee. They are going to have to notify customers of the waiver of the termination fee for cancellations. > Frank Harris <frankbhX@XcompuserveX.com> wrote in message news:<bjcs59 > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > a termination fee. They are going to have to notify customers > of the waiver of the termination fee for cancellations. They already have in San Diego, CA. I got the notice in my bill late last week. They don't really explain much except that they won't be returning your check and that your payments will now go through as electronic debits. According to the article you can opt out of it. You can bet that I will be calling on Monday to do just that. My cancelled checks have saved me more than once over the years (not with Cingular, other companies.) Why wouldn't presenting the official bank record showing the debit amount save your butt just like presenting a cancelled check? The debit shows who it was paid to and for how much...eeek people have some strange addictions to paper checks don't they? > > Frank Harris <frankbhX@XcompuserveX.com> wrote in message news:<bjcs59 > > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > checks have saved me more than once over the years (not with Cingular, > other companies.) > Why wouldn't presenting the official bank record showing the debit amount > save your butt just like presenting a cancelled check? The debit shows who > it was paid to and for how much. Well my bank doesn't charge me for returning my checks, so why show them a copy of my statement when I can send them a copy of the check? > Why wouldn't presenting the official bank record showing the debit amount > save your butt just like presenting a cancelled check? The debit shows who > it was paid to and for how much...eeek people have some strange addictions > to paper checks don't they? ------------- It's much easier to prove that you only atuhorized a certain amount when you have the written record in your hand...mistakes happen, especially when humans are entering number after number, mistakes are bound to happen. ------------- >>>Frank Harris <frankbhX@XcompuserveX.com> wrote in message news:<bjcs59 >>> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >>checks have saved me more than once over the years (not with Cingular, >>other companies.) Not Really Here <this.is.a.fake@adddress.com> wrote in article <070920032006204161%this.is.a.fake@adddress.com>: > According to the article you can opt out of it. Ah, I see that now. So if you can opt out, then it's not a contract breaking tool. I guess they're in hot water for not informing people of the opt-out option unless they inquire about it. Personally I can't see why people don't just automatically charge their cellular bills to their credit cards. One less paper or electronic check to write, plus miles or cash back bonuses. > Frank Harris <frankbhX@XcompuserveX.com> wrote in message news:<bjcs59 > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > a termination fee. They are going to have to notify customers > of the waiver of the termination fee for cancellations. Why exactly would this be cause for early cancellation? Cingular is simply going to present checks electronically instead of physically. Many merchants are switching to this faster, cheaper and more efficient way to accept checks. I haven't dug out my last Cingular contract in awhile, but I don't recall it saying anything about what forms of payment they accepted or didn't accept. I was given two opportunities to void my contract in my last two-year extention- once when they changed the coverage area, and once when the changed the fees for call-forwarding. I didn't take either "out" as I was happy with my service. I just don't see how not returning a check to your bank constitutes a material change in the contract. They are still accepting check payments, but they are processing them as EFTs- heck, Wal-Mart's been doing that in my area for over a year. >>Frank Harris <frankbhX@XcompuserveX.com> wrote in message news:<bjcs59 >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > are still accepting check payments, but they are processing them as EFTs- > heck, Wal-Mart's been doing that in my area for over a year. OMG! Do people still actually scribble some ink on a little piece of paper intended to represent some handwritten amount of money and present it for payment of goods or services? Okay, I'm only being partly facetious. :) There's only one reason I still use checks, they can't (won't) deal with electronic payments. The blank checks around here (assuming I could even find them), are still preprinted with ____99 in the date field. Needless to say, I absotively hate those little strips of paper! Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' ICQ = 35253273 "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur Hello, How can I find opportunities to void my contract? Is there a website or something I can go to? Thanks. ---ParaG > >>Frank Harris <frankbhX@XcompuserveX.com> wrote in message news:<bjcs59 > >> [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > with ____99 in the date field. Needless to say, I absotively hate > those little strips of paper! > OMG! Do people still actually scribble some ink on a little piece of > paper intended to represent some handwritten amount of money and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > with ____99 in the date field. Needless to say, I absotively hate > those little strips of paper! I'm with you. Between using my credit card, automatic debits, on-line bill pay from my bank, and the occasional use of those green pieces of paper with the dead presidents on them, I probably write out maybe a dozen checks a year, and NEVER carry a checkbook on me. Heck, I pay mine in the store, in person. Checks have this nasty habit of getting there too late, and then taking way too much time to clear the banks. A payment made by check can actually cause a cancelled contract- it takes too long to get from your mail box to their bank, back to your bank. Frank Harris <frankbhX@XcompuserveX.com> wrote in article <bjcs59$t9a$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com>: > In the San Francisco Chronicle 9/5/2003 > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > -- > Frank Harris in San Francisco > Heck, I pay mine in the store, in person. Checks have this nasty habit > of getting there too late, and then taking way too much time to clear > the banks. A payment made by check can actually cause a cancelled > contract- it takes too long to get from your mail box to their bank, > back to your bank. And this is precisely why I stopped using checks altogether. I get a payment notice, I access my account electronically, schedule an EFT, and I get another notice when the EFT occurs. If I feel like it, I could download my entire account history into Quicken, or just glare at it on screen. Personally, I don't care if they know they've been paid, my account history says they got paid - and any further discussion about non-payment is a problem between my bank and them, not me. Signaturejer email reply - I am not a 'ten' ICQ = 35253273 "All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of what we know." -- Richard Wilbur |
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