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Article #620997Re: going off-line
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:32
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 23:32
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On 2/23/2018 3:16 PM, Dave Garland wrote: > On 2/23/2018 9:42 AM, jmfbahciv wrote: >> I fired AOL yesterday. Curiously, the droid was more interested in >> getting me to change my password than dealing with the business >> of cancelling. She insisted she help me change the password and >> I could not get her to understand that I was using my "dial-up" >> phone line to talk to her and couldn't change it if I wanted to >> (and I did not want to). > > I don't know if it's still true, but it used to be that AOL was almost > impossible to cancel. Especially if they charged you by credit card, the > charges would keep on appearing. Watch suspiciously for any transactions > that would indicate they haven't actually discontinued your account. That's why they call it "A ... Oh Hell!!!". ;-) In Canada, that would be "Eh ... Oh Hell!!!". -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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