Can I afford it?

[vilakins]

This is part of an e-mail I got today from my ISP. (Orcon, you know who you are.)

Your current account balance is $0.00.

This balance needs to be paid within 10 days of the invoice date.

You can see how this balance is made up and see a complete breakdown of invoices and receipts online at our website.

They go on to give a snail-mail address to which I can post a cheque.

Comments

[trixieleitz]

Oh, dear, we were with them until we got DSL. Their brain-dead tech support completely failed to address anything relevant to the FC posting problem I was having.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I'd send the cheque at once. Who knows what might happen otherwise... a final warning?

[executrix.livejournal.com]

The two accepted tactics in that situation are:
1. For nice people: send them a cheque for $0.00.
2. For not-so-nice people: send them a cheque for $0.01 and make them spent $5.00 to issue you a refund.

[veritykindle.livejournal.com]

Hee! This is almost as bad as when my former University kept sending me a bill for -$42 (yes, that's *negative* 42 dollars *g*) I kept wondering if I should write them a check, too. ;)