Oh wow - this is a good laugh.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:55 am

http://insignificantthoughts.com/2006/0 ... lling-aol/

Poor guy is trying to cancel his AOL account.

Rosediamond · Post by **Rosediamond** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:09 am

Holy crap, that poor dude. What kind of customer service is that?? I know it's hard to cancel pretty much everything without the lecture spiel, but GEESH. . .

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:44 am

yeah.. AOL's impossible to get rid of. I had to call a preist to excorcise it.

Rock_dash · Post by **Rock_dash** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:47 am

legostargalactica wrote:yeah.. AOL's impossible to get rid of. I had to call a preist to excorcise it.

An Ex-AOL user. At last your deep dark secret is revealed.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:51 am

rock_dash wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:yeah.. AOL's impossible to get rid of. I had to call a preist to excorcise it.
An Ex-AOL user. At least your deep dark secret is revealed.

i was young! i needed the money!

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:54 am

Link doesn't seem to be working for me...

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:55 am

Linkara wrote:Link doesn't seem to be working for me...

he's busy saving Zelda, give him some time.

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:06 pm

I tried AOL when I was desperate for an internet provider out here in the country. It did not work. Period. Because of the poor quality of my rural phone lines, I couldn't stay connected for more than a minute. I spent more hours on the line with their support people than I did installing and using the service. Eventually both I and the support person agreed that it was just impossible for me to use AOL.

I asked him to take me off their mailing list. He said, "Oh, can't do that. We're very aggressive."

He wasn't kidding. I got wave after wave of mails, pleading with me to 'return to AOL', each one with CDs. I'm still getting them, over a year later. They've spent a lot of money sending me junk I could not use even if I wanted to. I can't see this as good business practice. It looks like they could go bankrupt from wasted mail charges.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:08 pm

RemusShepherd wrote:It looks like they could go bankrupt from wasted mail charges.

we can always pray for that.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:58 pm

Actually, I found out that if you play it right, you can probably get away with 3 or 4 free months of AOL. Just threaten to cancel your account at the end of every month and they'll offer you a month free if you change your mind. They did it to me like 3 times.

Jollyrodgers4 · Post by **Jollyrodgers4** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:05 pm

AOL has been screwing a lot of people lately. Even when your account comes off as cancelled they still bill you for the month. They're very tough to get rid of and they have been making false charges on peoples bills since they started

Ian Moulding · Post by **Ian Moulding** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:28 pm

legostargalactica wrote:
RemusShepherd wrote:It looks like they could go bankrupt from wasted mail charges.
we can always pray for that.

Prayer is not enough. I say we declare holy war. It really shouldn't be hard to convince people that AOL is the source of evil in this world.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:32 pm

I finally got rid of AOL when they realized I stopped making payments afer 5 months.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:58 pm

I know nothing of AOL from an early time I was scared to death of its evils so never witnessed them first hand, but that does sound like its best not to have experienced this type of hell.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:10 pm

AOL is just another ISP in Australia - and quite a small one too.

- Joel Fagin

Rock_dash · Post by **Rock_dash** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:15 pm

Joel Fagin wrote:AOL is just another ISP in Australia - and quite a small one too.

- Joel Fagin

Is it still America Online, or is it named after some other country there?

Austia Online?

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:32 pm

rock_dash wrote:Is it still America Online, or is it named after some other country there?

Austia Online?

No, it's still America. That's probably why it isn't popular. I think American Express has the same trouble.

And... "Austia?"

- Joel Fagin

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:31 pm

Joel Fagin wrote:
rock_dash wrote:Is it still America Online, or is it named after some other country there?

Austia Online?
No, it's still America. That's probably why it isn't popular. I think American Express has the same trouble.

And... "Austia?"

- Joel Fagin

i think he meant Austria.

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:36 pm

legostargalactica wrote:
Joel Fagin wrote:
rock_dash wrote:Is it still America Online, or is it named after some other country there?

Austia Online?
No, it's still America. That's probably why it isn't popular. I think American Express has the same trouble.

And... "Austia?"

- Joel Fagin
i think he meant Austria.

Austria and Australia are the same country. Like Holland and the Netherlands, Canada and Can-eh-da, China and Japan.

BEHOLD THE POWER OF EDIT!

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:46 pm

DarkMagician wrote:Austria and Austrailia are the same country.

Yeah, it's great having a famous action superstar (and politician!) like Arnie coming from our country, not to mention the Vienna Boy's Choir.

Oh, and "Australia" has only one "i".

- Joel Fagin