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| *Libertie* |
 Feb 14 2007, 08:29 PM
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So my brother, 18, has been using the phone a LOT lately. Last night I found out that he's actually been calling some girl in Australia. I didn't know about this or I'd have said something, but he told my mom that he was just using regular anytime minutes. When I found out about this, I flipped out and showed them the Cingular site where it had the rates listed (upwards of $3 per minute!). This prompted my mom to check out her phone bill. The grand total is so unbelievable that it needs to sit on its own line:
SIX. THOUSAND. DOLLARS. My mom's credit is already bad enough, so this is a nightmare. I'm gonna have to go with her and take out a loan so she can pay the bill, and I honestly don't know what's gonna happen to my brother. This is insane. |
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Feb 14 2007, 08:39 PM
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 Don't wake ghostie.  Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
Holy crap, Dani!! Six thousand dollars!? I can’t imagine running up a bill that high. The highest I ever ran mine up was a few hundred over for calls to Boston. If I were your parents I’d make him get a job and pay for it all. He’d also being doing every chore I could imagine AND have no phone privileges for a very, very long time. I wouldn’t ever be able to do that to my mom, she works so hard to pay bills. Your brother, although I’m sure he’s a swell guy, needs a crash course in responsibility.
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| *Intercourse.* |
Feb 14 2007, 08:45 PM
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Woahh. Stroak of Genius on his part.
I hope everything works out well though. You need to tell your brother to go get a job and pay you guys back every last dollar. How old is your brother? |
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Feb 14 2007, 08:45 PM
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 Pocketful of Sunshine Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 8,690 Joined: Nov 2005 Member No: 289,004 |
WOW.
 The most I've had for a bill was $400.  I checked my T-Mobile bill today.. $239.64. Obviously, there is something wrong since I have free texting and haven't gone over my minutes...I know a lot of people on house arrest. Wait, that's kinda irrelevant. QUOTE(Intercourse. @ Feb 14 2007, 5:45 PM)  How old is your brother? QUOTE(Libertie @ Feb 14 2007, 5:29 PM) So my brother, 18, OH. And hasn;t your brother heard of Skype? 
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Feb 14 2007, 08:46 PM
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 chinky Group: Official Designer Posts: 2,566 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 434,437 |
Oh shit. I'd kill your brother if I was your mom.
I always call people within my network, Cingular. I tend to check my minutes every now and then, just to make sure I don't go way over. Btw, good luck with your problem. |
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| *Uronacid* |
Feb 14 2007, 08:46 PM
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Man, that's absolutely incredible... xD
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Feb 14 2007, 08:46 PM
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OMG IS HE CRAZY, HE SHOULD PAY IT HIMSELF. OMG. I'd die if that ever happened, so sorry Dani.
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Feb 14 2007, 08:47 PM
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SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS?!
Ohmygod. I don't think our electricity and gas bills are even that high. Does he have a job that he can pay your mom back with? Knowing his mom credit problems, he really shouldn't have been calling some girl in Australia.  I really hope everything works out.
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Feb 14 2007, 08:48 PM
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 Home is where your rump rests! Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 4,235 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 451,969 |
My brother would have to lock himself in his room to protect himself from our mom and I'd have to sneak in food five times a day.
As for your family, I actually feel most sorry for your mother. That's a terrible thing that he did to her and she's really the one suffering. 
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Feb 14 2007, 08:54 PM
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And here I thought my 150$ overage fee was bad..
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| *Libertie* |
Feb 14 2007, 09:11 PM
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QUOTE(kayceeisms @ Feb 14 2007, 7:48 PM) As for your family, I actually feel most sorry for your mother. That's a terrible thing that he did to her and she's really the one suffering. Oh, no kidding. She's been breaking down at random intervals ever since we found out. I feel horrible for her. And my youngest brother is scared for Danny Ray (the one who's in trouble), and I'm basically just sitting here thinking about how we're gonna handle the financial troubles. |
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| *mishyerr* |
Feb 14 2007, 09:14 PM
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O_O
My mom would slaughter me if I did that. |
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Feb 14 2007, 09:22 PM
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i'm so bored. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 1,261 Joined: Oct 2006 Member No: 473,614 |
HOLY. he didn't think about getting a phonecard or anything?
my mother would disown me. does your brother have a job? make him pay it all back. |
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| *Libertie* |
Feb 14 2007, 09:28 PM
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^He has a part time job at DQ, it's not nearly enough.. He's seriously dense enough to have thought all this time that it was only using anytime minutes. =\
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Feb 14 2007, 09:29 PM
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I'm Cattt. :] Group: Validating Posts: 1,722 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 130,831 |
Wow. Okay. And I thought running up a bill of 1500 dollars was a lot.
He should pay at least some of it back. He's 18. He can get a part-time job. I don't even use up a lot of my minutes. I have 600 minutes I can use for every two years. That was when I went to public school and my mom and dad made me call them to make sure I was okay when I got off the bus. Now that I have online schooling, I only use it like once every week for less than a minute. I still have 600 minutes because that is the cheapest and lowest number of minutes for the plan. The rest of the minutes I can use on other things. I am not allowed to text because my dad yelled at me for running up my bill to $40. And that is a lot less than $6000 |
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Feb 14 2007, 10:53 PM
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The only thing I can recommend is to not keep it over his head for very long. I'm sure he feels very guilty. If he doesn't, your mom should tell him he has to leave for a month. That would teach him some sort of responsibility andshow him how precious a skill money-conservation really is. Also, obviously, never ever give him another cell phone, or make him get a prepaid tracphone. I honestly feel for you. My brothers a fuckup too.
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Feb 14 2007, 11:39 PM
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crap thats like a year of college tuition for me in hawaii...
damn good luck with that dani. hopefully the girl was worth it. speaking of australian girls.. 'rose' ahem anyway... lol i hope everything works out for you love. |
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| *Libertie* |
Feb 15 2007, 12:29 AM
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Aubrey - Speaking of Rose, where did you get all those pictures of this girl? Jeez XD
But yeah, that's MORE than a year's tuition for me right now. It's more than what my car cost. To say that this is a large sum of money would be an understatement.
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| *slammin shelby* |
Feb 15 2007, 12:31 AM
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Ohh that tops me
My most was 2,000. |
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Feb 15 2007, 01:01 AM
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 vivacity Group: Official Member Posts: 3,183 Joined: Jan 2007 Member No: 495,247 |
Six THOUSAND? You gotta be kidding me...
I spend the most minutes in the entire household and never have I ran up the bills, except for texting. Six thousand dollars could feed tons of poor people in poor countries.... |
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| *kryogenix* |
Feb 15 2007, 01:16 AM
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QUOTE(Intercourse. @ Feb 14 2007, 8:45 PM) Woahh. Stroak of Genius on his part. I hope everything works out well though. You need to tell your brother to go get a job and pay you guys back every last dollar. How old is your brother? lol Damn, he shoulda called collect. |
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| *StanleyThePanda* |
Feb 15 2007, 01:34 AM
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LIBI, It is so good to see you posting again!!!!!#$%&^%$#@ [/offtopic]
Anyways, $6,000!??!?!?!  That is... insane, for lack of better words.The highest I've gone over was like... $73 or so. Gah, I know I'd be dead if I went over that much.... |
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Feb 15 2007, 02:15 AM
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 What the fack. Group: Official Member Posts: 6,164 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 8,519 |
Daaaamn.
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Feb 15 2007, 02:20 AM
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omg something like this happened to my best friend. she didnt know she was getting charged with every text message cause she thought she was on an unlimited plan. so she texted away and she ran the bull to 900 dollars.
i feel bad for you guys cause thats a freaking whole lot. but you know you should try calling your phone company and asked them if they can investigate the calls, sometimes they will lower the bill down. my friend posed as her mother and got the bill to go down from 900 to 680 dollars. so try to talk to the company and tell them you didnt know it was three dollars a minute. but for your brother he deserves it. lol ahah. sorry i feel bad for you guys i hope you guys get out of this fine. |
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| *stephinika* |
Feb 15 2007, 03:03 AM
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$6000!??! And I thought a phone bill over $150 was bad...oh man...thats actually quite...insane.
 I wish your brother luck. =p
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