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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Verizon might add $2 'convenience' charge for you to pay your bill

via The Verge - All Posts by Paul Miller on 12/28/11

Verizon fee

You know how everybody loved that Bank of America monthly debit card fee thing? Or that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you pay Ticketmaster to let you print something out on your computer? Well, Verizon is apparently looking to get in on some of that feel-good action. According to Droid Life's sources, it appears that Verizon Wireless is looking to add a $2.00 "convenience fee" to bills paid online or over its automatic phone payment system. There are a number of still-free workarounds, including mailing an old fashioned check, or Verizon's obvious favorite: AutoPayment, but this seems a bit like a bait and switch after all the work everybody did to get away from paper billing in the first place. Also, it doesn't help that this is...

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