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Related: About this forumWoman Slammed With $15 Quadrillion Phone Bill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/solenne-san-jose-phone-bill_n_1956329.html
Solenne San Jose, French Woman, Slammed With Quadrillion Dollar Phone Bill
The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble Posted: 10/10/2012 10:44 pm EDT
There are large phone bills and then there are insane phone bills. Solenne San Jose, a woman from Pessac, in the Bordeaux region of France, received an utterly insane one.
After she terminated a contract with the phone company Bouygues Telecom early, San Jose was told that she would have to pay a cancellation fee. The exact amount would be sent in a final bill to her home in late September, the company said, according to the French news provider Sud Ouest.
The bill she received was for a mind-blowing 11,721,000,000,000,000, the Herald Sun reported. That's around $15 quadrillion.
"There were so many zeros I couldn't even work out how much it was," San Jose told Sud Ouest. And though it seemed like an obvious billing mistake, San Jose had a hard time convincing the phone company that was the case.
According to Sud Ouest, representatives at Bouygues Telecom initially insisted the amount -- nearly 6,000 times larger than France's 2011 GDP -- would automatically be withdrawn from her bank account.
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Solenne San Jose, French Woman, Slammed With Quadrillion Dollar Phone Bill
The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble Posted: 10/10/2012 10:44 pm EDT
There are large phone bills and then there are insane phone bills. Solenne San Jose, a woman from Pessac, in the Bordeaux region of France, received an utterly insane one.
After she terminated a contract with the phone company Bouygues Telecom early, San Jose was told that she would have to pay a cancellation fee. The exact amount would be sent in a final bill to her home in late September, the company said, according to the French news provider Sud Ouest.
The bill she received was for a mind-blowing 11,721,000,000,000,000, the Herald Sun reported. That's around $15 quadrillion.
"There were so many zeros I couldn't even work out how much it was," San Jose told Sud Ouest. And though it seemed like an obvious billing mistake, San Jose had a hard time convincing the phone company that was the case.
According to Sud Ouest, representatives at Bouygues Telecom initially insisted the amount -- nearly 6,000 times larger than France's 2011 GDP -- would automatically be withdrawn from her bank account.
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Woman Slammed With $15 Quadrillion Phone Bill (Original Post)
bananas
Oct 2012
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left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)1. What I was thinking ....
E.T. finally phoned home.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)2. And Republicans are having a hissy fight
over a couple trillion dollars here and there to run our entire country!
The most amazing part of this article is that they insisted there was no mistake. Do they hire people who are really that stupid? All I could say to them at that point would be "go ahead an try to automatically withdraw it, I would love for you to do that".
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)3. ..would automatically be withdrawn from her bank account
"According to Sud Ouest, representatives at Bouygues Telecom initially insisted the amount -- nearly 6,000 times larger than France's 2011 GDP -- would automatically be withdrawn from her bank account. "
Plus an overdraft fee, of course.
bodem1955_om
(16 posts)4. whoa
how did THAT happen? Astonishing..
Javaman
(62,530 posts)5. Those roaming charges are tough! nt