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Daniel DeVirgilio of Beavercreek, Ohio was understandably shocked last week when he received a letter from Time Warner Cable. DeVirgilio, a 26-year-old engineer, had apparently failed to pay his cable bill, and owed the provider a chunk of cash -- $16.4 million, to be exact.Turns out, the company made what it's calling a "human error" in calculating DeVirgilio's bill. An employee reportedly typed in the wrong total, which triggered an alert from Time Warner's automated system. DeVirgilio was notified that his credit card had been rejected for insufficient funds, but the card was never charged. Time Warner has promised to resolve the issue.
DeVirgilio, for his part, seems to have taken the snafu in stride. "Had I known this I would have bought Showtime," he told the Dayton Daily News. "Five bucks more for Showtime is a bit much, but heck -- $16,409,112. Who cares?"
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Subscribe to commentsTimetotalkMar 29th 2011 6:58AM
Good thing he doesn't have RCN it would be triple that amount!
BBMar 29th 2011 7:26AM
And they wonder why people are struggling! You just wonder how many "human errors" these megacorporations make and some people don't catch.
maxiesmom067Mar 29th 2011 8:08AM
Good thing it wasn't the IRS. They'd put him in front of a firing squad, take all his worldly goods and send his family a bill for the ammo. "Mistake? What mistake? We don't make no stinking mistakes!"
wmacdanielMar 29th 2011 8:10AM
Time Warner really sucks That's why I went satillite
dls031568Mar 29th 2011 10:33AM
BIG NEWS.... Time Warner is owned non other then David Rockefeller him self.... Greedy prick that he is, This man souled get free cable for life for the inconvenience!!
neugentkMar 29th 2011 11:01AM
Cable TV should actually be free. The endless commercials will drive any sane person to commit a felony. There are some 30 minute shows that are actually 16 minutes long and 14 minutes of commercials. What a rip-off.
Congress, the Senate, no one can fix this travesty.
If someone wants cable for free, by all means let them watch the commercials. However, why should the American public be bogged down with all of these commercials when we are paying to watch TV.
That should be a crime.
nvdesertdreamerMar 29th 2011 11:35AM
@neugentk, Where I live, I have On Demand. Good Morning America on regular tv is 2 hours. On Demand 54 minutes. 66 minutes of commericals. Then there is Charlie Sheen, $1.75M for 16 minutes of work, insanity at best.
ckwMar 29th 2011 12:22PM
Back in the 60's when cable was trying to get a foothold in tv the first programs were free for several years. I remember that all they showed were the Japanese Godzilla films. The cable companies kept pleading that they be allowed to charge for their services because THAT WOULD GUARANTEE NO COMMERCIALS AT ALL ON CABLE TV PROGRAMS. !
As soon as they were allowed to charge, they began paying off politicians to rescind the order that cable tv be provided to the public as a free service. Ask Ted Turner and his ilk.
I knew they were lying then.
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MikeMar 29th 2011 12:26PM
I remember when the first non-commercial channel aired. In my area it was called OnTV. Trouble was, you had to switch from commercial TV to OnTV and back if you wanted commercial channels. Then, more pay for TV without commercials came out. But people(the public) didn't want to keep switching back and forth, so the cable companies started airing commercial TV. When that happened, the channels we were paying for that didn't have commercials got the sneaky idea that the public wouldn't notice if commercials creeped back in. Well, a little wasn't too hard to put up with. But as time went by... you now see the results. As everyone now complains, there are more commercials on TV than ever before. And, sadly, it appears nothing can be done short of more regulations. Thank goodness for Turner Classic Movie channel.
AlMar 29th 2011 1:07PM
Time Warner it figures just take a lookat AOL (Always Off Line) That is the most screwed up websight on the internet i don't know if Advertiser's know that 3/4 of the internet viewer's have switched to FireFox. Their so called Techs have no idea what you are talking about when you ask them about any problem with AOL. So iam not surprised to hear about that (Human Error)