Verizon Taking Pricing Cues From The Onion
from the life-imitates-fiction dept
Every so often, somebody starts a minor uproar on the web by not getting an obvious joke, oftentimes from the pages of the satrical newspaper The Onion. Of course, sometimes it can be quite hard to tell if The Onion is kidding, such as in a recent story called "Verizon Introduces New Charge-You-At-Whim Plan". It details a new pricing plan from the telco, with "widely varying, but always high" charges, determined through "an unjustified, arbitrary and, if you'll allow us to boast, frankly unjustifiable method". Anybody that's ever paid a phone bill can get the joke, but given Verizon's recent news that it would stop collecting a USF recovery fee to its DSL customers, but replace it with an essentially off-setting "supplier surcharge", the story hits closer to home for some people.
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Onion proves it ! by Maria making pictures on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 1:03pm
Yes I agree with you this story of Verizon is a mess of it's messiest kind.
I think Onion does a good job by summerizing the whole truth about Verizon in an artistic way.
Thank you for sharing this story with me !
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by Anonymous Coward on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 1:28pm
Verizon has nothing on airlines when it comes to pricing.
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Links by pandlcg on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 1:37pm
Both of your first two links take you to the same page.
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by Guard on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 1:41pm
Removing charges to make room for more charges! Yay.
And btw, that link to the Onion article points to the preview "Man didn't get abortion joke" article, not the Verizon article.
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Re: Links by Carlo on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 1:43pm
fixed, thanks.
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Links by Dee on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 1:46pm
Here's the Onion Verizon spoof for all interested.
Verizon Introduces New Charge-You-At-Whim Plan |
The Onion - America's Finest News Source
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by Anonymous Coward on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 1:52pm
Hate the salon registration....
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Sounds familiar... by Sanguine Dream on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 2:04pm
I signed up from Sprint DSL and they told me my first bill was gonna be a little larger than the usual bills. They said is was gonna be about $150-$180. No problem. So when I get my first bill of $270 I wasn't happy.
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by Count Porkula on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 2:30pm
Great article and oh so true.
No one can deliver satire like the Onion.
(remember when Xinhua picked up the Onion's article about Congress installing a retractable dome over the capitol building?) :)
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Onion by krum303 on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 2:57pm
Life imitates fiction every day when it comes to The Onion's story with the great title, "Drug Deal goes Great!"
Gotta love The Onion.
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Blasted Adblock! by Anonymous Coward on Aug 21st, 2006 @ 10:28pm
Can't even make use of the Salon pass using Firefox + Adblock... oh well?
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Can you say... by Wizard Prang on Aug 31st, 2006 @ 8:55am
www.southwest.com ?
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