EDIT: Of course, now that I think about it, if they don't have enough money to reactivate the phone...how the hell are they going to afford a lawyer?

[ September 01, 2001: Message edited by: The359 ]

First of all, did you really expect me not to read this post? Shik throws the URL of this board at everyone he knows, of COURSE I come here.

Second, I think I'll just put forth a few pieces of information that others reading this might want to know, and that you may even not have known:

That "near-constant use" was LOCAL INTERNET DIALUP, which cost you nothing. A quick email to Shik or myself would have found this out, but did you bother? No.

It may in fact have been a Verizon screwup, or it may have been that you never bothered to REMEMBER MY NAME when you called them, so how on earth could they have known who you wanted to switch it to? I called them, Shik called them, but since you hadn't bothered to leave your SSN with Shik, we could not authorize the switch ourselves.

You seemed willing enough to go to Verizon and ask them to clear it up when my girlfriend was flirting with you all innocent-like.

And for someone who left the electric bill unpaid for the last two months, you're doing an awful lot of worrying about bills not getting paid...

Just last week, we get +35 degree C, and the winter of 99, the coldest temperature was -32 degree C, and that's WITHOUT windchill, with windchill it's like -40 or 50 or something.

I acutually got 2 days off school ever since I've been here at Calgary due to the excessive amount of snow fall.

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Originally posted by BlueElectron:
Man, I bet none of you live in a city with worse weather the mine, I live in Calgary by the way.

Just last week, we get +35 degree C, and the winter of 99, the coldest temperature was -32 degree C, and that's WITHOUT windchill, with windchill it's like -40 or 50 or something.

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Now then, Manji, you should have called Tesla when you found out that the phone line had not been switched to their billing information. It would have been the polite thing to do to see what the problem was. If it was a hassle with Verizon (like Tesla says), then you could have quickly straightened things out. Point is, you really should have called Tesla.

However, I'm not saying this is simply your fault. It isn't. Tesla, you should have made the effort to call Manji when Verizon demanded his social security number instead of essentially saying "screw it" and using the phone line while it was still being billed to Manji.

What we have here is a failure to communicate. My advice is that, Tesla and Manji, y'all talk this out and figure out something to do besides going to small claims court. With the present information available, the case would either be thrown out by the judge or decided in favor of the defendent. So email each other, call each other, meet somewhere, do whatever it takes and save yourselves the hassle of appearing in court to have a judge decide. Talking this out and settling it yourselves would be much less expensive. In Harris County, it costs approximately $300 to bring a case before a small claims judge. That's more than enough to have Verizon reconnect and reinstall a phone line. Add to that at least a day's worth of wages lost because y'all have to appear in the court. In short, it's not worth it to take this to court over something so small and so easily settled on your own.

Never trust anyone to do anything that in anyway shape or form deals with your money.