phone bill charge

[torex]

my dyslexia kicked in one day when I was calling pizza pizza.Instead of dialing the number 967 1111 ,I accidentally dialed 976 1111 ....as soon as the other side answered I realized my mistake and hung up. On my bill I see a charge of $25 for the call and the duration time is literally 3 seconds.

Am I liable to pay for the call? , could I call Bell and dispute it maybe?

 

[katetoronto]

You could try to dispute it. My grandmother has dementia and is known for calling long distance numbers and racking up her phone bill calling people all over the place. We have disputed these calls and the phone company is usually nice enough to take off the charges.

Might as well try - what have you got to lose? What WAS the # you called that resulted in such a large charge for a few seconds anyway?

 

[torex]

it was some chat line or sex line,I did'nt listen long enough to find out because I realized the mistake and knew that these type of numbers charge

 

[stinkynuts]

I bet you they chose that number so that people would mistakenly call their number instead of pizza pizza. Even if only 1/10 of 1% of people made that mistake, due to the enormous volume of business that occurs, they would rack up quite a bit at $25 a call.

 

[zzap]

Just call bell and tell them exactly what you said here... they will remove the charge no questions asked.

 

[zzap]

Basically you called the number so yeah you have to pay. I had the same problem a few years ago and the total bill was over 900 bucks. .

How the hell did you dial so many wrong numbers to rack up $900 in charges? No wonder they wanted you to pay... jusy didn't look right to them.

 

[xarir]

Programmed 976 1111 into speed dial and kept hitting it by mistake?