"Verizon Wireless has decided it will not institute the fee for online or telephone single payments that was announced earlier this week."

"Announced", my ass! It was leaked!!!

well looks like vz snapped out of their crazy minds, lol

That's right, bitches!!!

LOL.. Typical BIG Co..

Annouce something that no one will like and then a few days later announce it's not gonna happen..

That way the "LOOK" like they actually care..

I was not looking forward to switching. That could have been the last straw.

You guys need a regulatory authority which looks after the interest of the consumers and controls the wild urges of wireless providers. Thing is that there are only three major carrier services and they can form a cartel. Its on the govt. to ensure that consumer rights are protected.

it wasn't the customer response that spooked 'em,,, it was havin' the FCC sniffin' around...

I take full credit for this due to my angry tweet response when they tried to say that there were ways to get around it yesterday on twitter. You're all welcome.

well I guess I can take them off the axis of evil

Big wireless companies are like liberal governments, There is never a tax hike or increased fee they don't like

Verizon must have listened to customers for a change.

Another reason why it was good that the AT&T, T-mobile merger didn't go through.

Starting to get in the mood... let's call it a year!

Get those berrys rocking with BBM Music

"Convenience fee"your bank charges for using out of network atm's.why no outrage about that.

Enough is enough! I've had with these monkey fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!

Just look for a raise in the amount you'll have to pay monthly, does verizon charge customers for their "Network Upgrades" or system access fee? And by charge i mean tell you that you have to contribute to the 'Network improvement fund'

Round 2 (DING!), Verizon counters with a new $4 service fee.

gotta love how they said "at this time..."

Power to the People!

I'm proud to be Canadian! If a carrier up here ever announced such a fee, we'd throw poutine at their office windows then we'd run and hide in our igloos. We'd later apologize, of course. :)

When it got out that vzw was tacking on this fee, I suggested that in return they agree to pay a $2.00 inconvenience fee every time their network goes down. Its only fair, right?

Having to pay to pay your bill is outside the realm of reasonable.

This was AT&T'ish of them....

Tim

My God Man!! How old is that picture? Is that an 8330 on the sign in the window?

i think in return if they try this again.... we should just not pay our bills on time...

what a big ass free publicity stunt VZ pulled off there with a cheezy comment: "At Verizon, we take great care to listen to our customers"

why I remember paying a convenience fee at the gas station so I didn't have to get my fat tush out of my car and pump my own gas. JUST MAIL THE BLINKING CHECK TO THEM pay for a stamp and be done. BOO HOO I NEARLY HAD TO PAY $2. I remember paying $50 + fees for 50 minutes without roaming, voicemail, or free nights and weekends. get a grip people, no bitching about the new home buyer tax that our loving government has attached to the 2 month "tax cut"

It was ridiculous anyway. I'm not on Verizon however I read their many points of how to avoid a fee and thought to myself, they can go to Hell"

http://www.ChelliesWorld.com

"Can you hear US now?"

I think big red did proposed it just to seem like they were doing their customers a favor by "listening" and then cancelling the $2 fee. They are the demons and they are the gods! Big corps...

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I have a sense that in this particular case the bean counters developed this idea and Marketing caught wind of it a little too late before it leaked out.

Unless there is a valid reason (like the company is really small or the fee charged to the merchant is stupid high) there is no reason to charge a fee to pay your bill with a CC.

Dan

That's great marketing by Verizon. That's free publicity.

I'm in Canada so this does not affect me either way, but if they want "to encourage customers to take advantage of the best and most efficient options" why not offer a discount even for a limited time to get people to switch to automated systems like direct debit, automatic credit card payments and so on? Now that's incentive and good marketing. Everyone loves a discount no matter how small!

I think they just learned how to spell F-C-C...

LOL! This only shows are ridiculous the leadership of this company. As soon as the FCC says they will look into it, they back down! I wonder what you are really hiding VZ?. If the FCC wanted to vigilant, they would just be all over them and investigate all of their business practices. uess what, they might find out a few things I'm sure!!

My Canadian couterpart above says it well. Give an incentive, that will increase the payment to come in and settle your cash flow problem. This is really the issue I think as they are trying to increase revenues...Decrease the paper invoices, trust me this is HUGE savings for companies as we are going into a more Green enviroment. Cost saving per invoice: Statement of avg 2sheets, Envelope, stamps, machinerie maintenance, manpower to cover the whole process (not that I am for this piece, relocate the job somewhere else please!). When you think of it, it adds up to about at least $4-5 per customer / per month! Do the math!

I wrote a small piece in the original blog of this VZ 2$ charge, what a crock and a rip off! You wanna fire your customers, that's the ticket VZ!

If I remember correctly, credit card merchant accounts also don't allow for different charges based on credit card payments. This might also violate their merchant TOS. I know, with my business, I can't charge more to a client to offset the credit card payment fees 'll incur with my merchant account provider.

I'm glad to see that Vzw is at least listening to the negative press that came from the announcement and responding accordingly. It's like the banks backing down from wanting to charge a monthly fee for using debit cards. Consumer outrage can work.

Jeez, what's with the 8330 in the store window? I wouldn't be surprised if there were dinosaurs instead of cars going down the street...