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Anybody else have a high first bill?
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Check Your Bills!
hey everyone,
i suggest that you all take a minute to look at your at&t bills.
i was just looking at mine online and even though i selected the plan and added unlimited txt messages, they did not have that feature selected on my bill so they charged be for every txt message over 200 messages. Now i text alot and my overage charges were $500! i just got off the phone with at&t and they took the charges off but this is kinda ridiculous. just be sure you call check your bills b4 u pay!
-chase
hey everyone,
i suggest that you all take a minute to look at your at&t bills.
i was just looking at mine online and even though i selected the plan and added unlimited txt messages, they did not have that feature selected on my bill so they charged be for every txt message over 200 messages. Now i text alot and my overage charges were $500! i just got off the phone with at&t and they took the charges off but this is kinda ridiculous. just be sure you call check your bills b4 u pay!
-chase
Post the cost of your first iPhone bill
I have a 2 year contract and the 59.99 a month plan.
My first payment is 125.40...
How the **** do they figure. Did I pay for the entire month of June?
$36 buck activation....
$89....minus plan $29 figure in tax
I still cant account for 15 to $20 bucks. $29 in tax is 50% of the damn bill so it cant call be tax...
But I only used it to a few days in June, Holy ****.
I have a 2 year contract and the 59.99 a month plan.
My first payment is 125.40...
How the **** do they figure. Did I pay for the entire month of June?
$36 buck activation....
$89....minus plan $29 figure in tax
I still cant account for 15 to $20 bucks. $29 in tax is 50% of the damn bill so it cant call be tax...
But I only used it to a few days in June, Holy ****.
Apple probably didn't mention this, but ATT has about twice as much monthly taxes and fees as T-Mobile.
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Ehh taxes for my phone were around 8.00
68.49 total or so for the new plan.
However my original bill was 74.00 before I noticed they had charged me for a bunch of data I had used on my iphone. I was a existing customer and they never added my data plan right. They corrected it though.
68.49 total or so for the new plan.
However my original bill was 74.00 before I noticed they had charged me for a bunch of data I had used on my iphone. I was a existing customer and they never added my data plan right. They corrected it though.
???
24hr - 8hr (sleep) x 14 days (since iPhone) x 60 minutes / 10,000 sms = 1 text message every 1m20s you are awake.
So you basically just get up in the morning and start pounding away text messaging every 1 minute 20 seconds? Obviously you take breaks to eat and go to the bathroom, so basically all you do all day long is text? Come on, man ...
Maybe you need to slow it down a bit.
my billing period starts on the 1st of every month, so i was charged the $20 data plan for the last two days of june. i thought about complaining, but i don't think it's worth the hassle.
no activation fee here either. I also kept all 4200 of my rollover minutes. I figured re-uping for 2 more years would cost me all those minutes, but I guess not. Awesome
No, I've been an AT&T/Cingular customer for several years now. I thought I had read somewhere that there would be a $36 activation fee whether you are a new customer or not. I think it might have actually been during the activiation process through itunes.
From Apple's site under the Existing Customer tab (fine print):
"*Current AT&T customers, just add one of these data plans to your existing voice plan.
Minimum new 2-year wireless service plan and activation fee required to activate iPhone features, including iPod; plans are subject to AT&T credit approval."
Under *new* customers (fine print):
"Minimum new 2-year wireless service plan and activation fee required to activate iPhone features, including iPod; plans are subject to AT&T credit approval."
I hope I receive the same luck as you
I'm also an existing AT&T customer.
My first bill was $137.62
I knew that we were to not receive any discounts for anything to do with the iPhone, but I still called AT&T. I told them that the sales consultant told me I would get my activation fee because of the company I worked for (which he did), and the CSR was kind of to waive my activation fee.
So now my bill went down to $101.11
Not bad considering I saved $36.00
This is the story behind my bill:
- $59.99 base plan
- First added $10.00 for 1500 text messages
- Found out there was a cheaper addition with M2M text for $4.99
- Added $8.99 for 7pm nights
I knew that we were to not receive any discounts for anything to do with the iPhone, but I still called AT&T. I told them that the sales consultant told me I would get my activation fee because of the company I worked for (which he did), and the CSR was kind of to waive my activation fee.
So now my bill went down to $101.11
Not bad considering I saved $36.00
This is the story behind my bill:
- $59.99 base plan
- First added $10.00 for 1500 text messages
- Found out there was a cheaper addition with M2M text for $4.99
- Added $8.99 for 7pm nights
My first bill was $138 with the activation fee and prorated charges. Not out of the ordinary when getting a new phone with a new provider.
The one thing that did concern me was $20 in taxes and fees! That seems way too high. I came from verizon (i was on a voice/data plan) and the taxes were only $10/month, so my $90 plan came out to $100 every month.
Now I get on att with a $70 plan and it's looking like half of my $20 savings in plan charges will get eaten up in taxes, bringing me to a new bill of $90 a month!
That's not right! Is this normal for att to charge double in taxes and fees compared to other carriers or are they passing on hidden charges to us??
The one thing that did concern me was $20 in taxes and fees! That seems way too high. I came from verizon (i was on a voice/data plan) and the taxes were only $10/month, so my $90 plan came out to $100 every month.
Now I get on att with a $70 plan and it's looking like half of my $20 savings in plan charges will get eaten up in taxes, bringing me to a new bill of $90 a month!
That's not right! Is this normal for att to charge double in taxes and fees compared to other carriers or are they passing on hidden charges to us??
I was only charged the extra $20 for data. No activation fee.
I've always been charged roughly 20% in "taxes and fees" from Cingular/AT&T
I've always been charged roughly 20% in "taxes and fees" from Cingular/AT&T
Just got my most recent bill. $50. My previous bill was $48. (The difference being some directory assistance stuff.) This bill has the exact same features as I've had for a while now. No $20 iPhone data, no activation fee, nothing different at all. I have combined ATT billing so maybe there's simply a delay to these thinngs - I've logged on to cingular.com and made sure that my iPhone data plan is there.
i just got my first bill. its right on the money. the only thing i dont care for is the fact they charge you for the next months data a month in advance. so your first month you will be seeing a slightly higher bill. other then that it should go down. people stop freaking out, this is all something a simple phone call will take care of.
Pro-rated??
I just spent a half-hour talking to AT&T customer service.
I argued about being prorated.
I have no problem paying for 3 days.
My problem was the surcharges and other fees were NOT proportional to the pro-rate's.
After talking to the rep, then the rep's supervisor, and then the supervisor's manager, they said they'd call me back.
1 hour later I got a call, "For your inconvienience and the missunderstanding we've waved your activation fee, as well as the pro-rate".
$125.20 = $71.71
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8GB, 7 series lcd (can see pink dots, only with a magnifying glass at a 30 degree angle, lol), 59.99 plan, love it
I just spent a half-hour talking to AT&T customer service.
I argued about being prorated.
I have no problem paying for 3 days.
My problem was the surcharges and other fees were NOT proportional to the pro-rate's.
After talking to the rep, then the rep's supervisor, and then the supervisor's manager, they said they'd call me back.
1 hour later I got a call, "For your inconvienience and the missunderstanding we've waved your activation fee, as well as the pro-rate".
$125.20 = $71.71
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8GB, 7 series lcd (can see pink dots, only with a magnifying glass at a 30 degree angle, lol), 59.99 plan, love it
My bill is exactly what it should be. It is $84.53. I was an existing customer with a family plan, so I just added the $20 data plan to my existing $60 plan. My billing cycle began on 6/24 and they pro-rated the data charge to 16.67 which is exactly what it should be for the 25 days I had it that billing cycle. I was charged $7.27 in taxes, fees, and other charges. That's 9.4% of my bill. Not surprising there.
For those of you that think yours looks wrong, call AT&T. I don't know why any of you would have higher taxes unless your state charges more (I'm in CA).
For those of you that think yours looks wrong, call AT&T. I don't know why any of you would have higher taxes unless your state charges more (I'm in CA).