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AWS in a class action lawsuit...only a matter of time for Cingular fot the same thing

justinwilliams

May 17, 2005, 10:16 PM
The short of it.


I got a pamphlet in the mail naming the defendant "AWS" and a large customer database as the plaintiffs. Anyone who cancelled service within a certian date (can't remember the dates) is being sent this notce to join the class action lawsuit.

Any who, they are filing the class action lawsuit against AWS for not disclosing that if you cancel you service you will be billed for the full month, not a prorated month. I will be anxious to see what comes of it as Cingular does the same thing.
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austin316

May 17, 2005, 10:32 PM
justinwilliams said:
The short of it.


I got a pamphlet in the mail naming the defendant "AWS" and a large customer database as the plaintiffs. Anyone who cancelled service within a certian date (can't remember the dates) is being sent this notce to join the class action lawsuit.

Any who, they are filing the class action lawsuit against AWS for not disclosing that if you cancel you service you will be billed for the full month, not a prorated month. I will be anxious to see what comes of it as Cingular does the same thing.



Thats a joke and a ahlf, there was T&C for 20 years with that in there, and it also never stated there was a proration,except that your first bill will ALWAYS be prorated.

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VOLVORacr

May 17, 2005, 11:46 PM
Just another example of cry babies that don't read their contracts. Get over it. We could give then a recording of T&C on a CD word for word and they still wouldn't listen to it and then cry when they think something is unfair. 😢 😢 😢
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Cellboob01

May 18, 2005, 12:32 AM
Just another example of cry babies that don't read their contracts.


They must have read the part stating that "no class action lawsuits can be filed" was null and void if the clause of the contract is found to be unenforceable. (Which is the majority of places)

Additionally, kudos to companies trying to keep our judicial system from consolidating cases, thus increasing court workloads and trying to prevent efficiency.

Mega kudos to the states that call shenanigans on such blatant infringements on rights.

Bottom line, the contract isn't always legal in your state regardless of what it says.
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austin316

May 18, 2005, 2:27 AM
Thats ok, i had this idiot call in , saying that his wife is meantally ill and she did not know what she was doing when she got a service, and should be held liable for it, or the cancel fees, and when i looked at the bill and asked how a mental patient could leave new york ,fly to florida and then london and germany, he got all defensive and told me that they were both mentally defected, at which point i am starting to believe if they thought that story was going to work.

I tell them they can fight in court over that,and then he said he can't afford they are just students and students ahould not be forced to endure hardships, and i told him that deadbeats should not travel to europe on our dime and then cry poor, they hung up
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davidg4781

May 18, 2005, 2:39 AM
That's rediculious. It amazes me the stuff people think up to try to get out of their bills. I hate it when I go over my minutes or something, and my bill is a bit higher, but I bite it and move on.
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Tail

May 18, 2005, 8:37 AM
To Cellboob, customer's of AWS were informed on there Nov 2003 and June/July 2004 invoices that if you cancel your service in the middle of your bill cycle, you get charged for the whole month of service. Not only that, but this is a common billing practice with EVERY wireless provider. It's displayed clearly in every provider's Terms and Conditions.
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GWFOX

May 18, 2005, 9:24 AM
The CA lawsuit is pretty worthless. I received the same pamphlet in the mail. The reward is either a 50 minute calling card or a 100 minute calling card. It all depends on which bracket you fall in.

I'd like to point out something though. I signed into a employee plan with my old company. I never signed nor gave a verbal authorization for a contract. When I left my old job, ATTWS changed my agreement from the employee plan to a local plan. It should have been a national but whatever.

Point of my story is that when I went to cancel I got hit with ETF and full month billing. Big deal about the full month billing. ALL the carriers do full month. Why? Simple. Carriers (at least VZW) will give you the entire month to use and your service te...
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davidg4781

May 18, 2005, 2:36 PM
It's not like that with just every wireless provider, but just about any service that you prepay for your services, such as internet and cable.
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texaswireless

May 18, 2005, 6:32 PM
And then you make me laugh.

Confusing, frustrating and funny.
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repCB

May 18, 2005, 1:59 PM
I can't believe a legitimate lawyer would actually go for that. This I gotta see...
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jramossteel

May 18, 2005, 6:27 PM
I don't see Cingular having a problem with that because the contracts state that we want 30 days notice to end the contract, in reality we use that to get you until the end of your cycle just because it makes it easier than having to prorate bills that are already printed 😁
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