Your Rogers bill is available
Cats: Canada|… but Rogers is not.
That was the situation this morning when I logged on to pay my bill.
Because I’m on a personal campaign to slay the rip-off dragons of the Canadian cell phone industry, I take every opportunity to stick a needle in their eye.
I signed onto their website this morning after they phoned yesterday to remind me that my bill was overdue. There were lots of virtuous apple-pie-and-motherhood statements about “service in a secure environment 24/7.”
But when I attempted to pay my bill in this 24/7 service environment, I was told that
Rogers is unavilable for a planned upgrade as part of our continuous efforts to improve your service with Rogers.com … blah blah blah…
I don’t begrudge the occasional take-down of service but I do begrudge the 24/7 promise, particularly when it comes from a Canadian cell phone rip-off artist like Rogers.
Americans and Europeans laugh at the way Canadians are charged. We pay three times the rate, depending on where you look to compare. It is nothing short of highway robbery. And cell phone barons are getting rich off our failure to kick up a stink. Americans would never stand for it.
So come on Canadians, drop the nice act for just once and give em hell. Otherwise we’ll look like patsies, poor patsies.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I have a cell phone. I have never used it though. Down with Rogers!…but not the chocolates or sugar Rogers.
I suppose moderation is the key with either Rogers.
GT, I have been busy here and out of town. My e-world is the first to be sacrificed when I get busy. Also you have been ‘typing’ a lot about stuff I know nothing about…Idol, Sex in the City, cell phones, Lars, Martha Stewart,…
You need more remotely located rouge neck guy stuff.
June 9th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Thank you for the anti-Roger’s support. I’m imagining some mixed martial arts applications delivered to their infrastructure or something.
I’ll work on the red neck lumber-guy angles.
June 10th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Say, isn’t “rogering” a euphemism for “f**king?” Coincidence, I think not.
June 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
WP, of course, rogering, exactly
Why didn’t I think of that dreamy witticism for my headline. Damn you.
June 10th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Our son tried to pay his Rogers bill at our local Rogers store last week. They would only take a cheque or Visa, they would not take cash or debit. They said the payment would be put in a courier envelope and shipped to another location within the province. When he asked them for a receipt they took a ballot entry for the local main street shoppers give-away contest, flipped it over on the blank side and wrote out his receipt. OMG, that’s not quaint anymore, is it?
Today he went to pay his final Aliant bill since moving home from university for the summer. He had the bill with him and the young clerk said that since his account was closed (he just received the bill today) that they were not able to process the payment. OMG — that’s not quaint either, WTF???
We need more competition — BRING IT ON!!!
June 11th, 2008 at 10:11 am
YAM, those are crazy stories and the price you have to pay for this absue.
Yes it’s time for competition
June 14th, 2008 at 5:47 am
“Why didn’t I think of that dreamy witticism for my headline. Damn you.”
You don’t spend half the day with your mind in the gutter (nor even two minutes, I imagine. Insert winky face here).
June 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
WP, why am I not surprised?
May 11th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Charged for INCOMING calls? My credit goes STALE after 30 days?
NO SERVICE.
CHEAP PHONES.
Give it up!!!
Rogers, Telus. You suck