Verizon Bad Math

http://media.putfile.com/Verizon-Bad-Math

It's hard not to listen to the whole 2 hours of this.

You might not enjoy it if you aren't a nerd.

EDIT: It's actually not 2 hours. Putfile reports it wrong for some reason - it's actually about 25. Check out the guy's blog starting here.

Last edited by BigKaboom2 on Tue Jan 30, 2007 3:03 am, edited 1 time in total.

.002 cents is .00002 dollars. It's either user error by the person who programmed the rate into the computer, or its false advertising. I couldn't listen to the whole thing but I have seen it before. Wonder if he got his money back.

How about a summary for those who don't have 2 hours to spend?

A guy is recording a phone call to verizon customer service. He is being charged .002 dollars for each kilobyte of airtime(internet I guess) he uses on his cellphone when he is in Canada. He has an unlimited plan in the U.S.. The rate given to him by the company before he went to Canada was .002 cents per kilobyte. He used 35,000~ kilobytes, around 35 megabytes of data. He is being billed for $71 when it should be $0.71. He is debating with several verizon reps and using math to try to proove his point. The representatives just don't get it.

The blog I just linked to in the edited first post has a few other examples of this, one in which the exact same problem happens to someone named Peter, and another where someone calls to get a quote after the incident and once again is told .002 cents.

I can't help but crack up at every instance of the statement "There's no such thing as .002 dollars..."