{"id":728784,"date":"2010-05-18T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T13:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005869"},"modified":"2010-05-17T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T03:50:08","slug":"man-gets-verizon-to-forgive-18k-phone-bill-after-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/728784","title":{"rendered":"Man Gets Verizon To Forgive $18K Phone Bill After Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/verizon-thumb-158x118-40446.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let your child run off with your cell phone. Not unless you want to risk the chance of the whippersnapper racking up $18,000 in charges and having to tangle with the service provider for the length of a presidential term in order to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/ticker\/2010\/05\/verizon_forgive.html\">get it overturned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Boston.com has a story about a man who went through such hell and has finally gotten his way, convincing the company to stop bugging him for the money. The man&#8217;s son, who was in his early 20s, tethered daddy&#8217;s phone to his laptop and made the data charges explode.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us to another piece of advice: Don&#8217;t tether your phone to a computer unless you&#8217;re sure you&#8217;ve got unlimited data. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/ticker\/2010\/05\/verizon_forgive.html\">Verizon forgives balance of $18,000 cellphone bill<\/a>)&#8221;><\/a> [Boston.com]<br \/>\n<em>(Thanks, David!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let your child run off with your cell phone. Not unless you want to risk the chance of the whippersnapper racking up $18,000 in charges and having to tangle with the service provider for the length of a presidential term in order to get it overturned. Boston.com has a story about a man who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33AA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}