I see a hate mail battle brewing

[wdfifteen]

I got a letter from JNR collection agency. $239 for damage supposedly done to AT&T equipment on one of my residential properties. I have never had AT&T service or any AT&T equipment on my property. AT&T has never contacted me about any damage to any of their equipment, so this is obviously bogus. The letter requested that I call them. No way. Once they get my phone number they will hound me day and night.
I wrote them a nice letter, telling them there must me an error. This could go on for a long time.

[GH85Carrera]

Good luck. We had a collection agency call and demand we make a mortgage payment to them or they would foreclose. I told them go right ahead. Since I have no mortgage I am damn sure they can’t foreclose.

[john70t]

You do charge for your professional time, don't you?

To properly address this issue first they must:
-JNR collection agency should identify they are a legitimate licensed company (by a chamber of commerce or accredited agency or other)
-Identify their headquarters and where assets held,
-Agree to your term&conditions in notarized writing.

[wdfifteen]

The plot thickens.
There was a satellite TV receiver on the roof of my rental house when I bought it in 2013. It was out of service and I basically ignored it for the year I spend remodeling the place. I knew it was there but just thought of it as something that I needed to take down and throw away eventually. I had not authorized ATT to put it there. Subsequently, and without my knowledge, my tenant ordered Direct TV satellite service. I don't know if they put up a new dish or used the old one. In August I had a new roof installed and the installers messed up the aim of the dish. My tenant, again without my knowledge, called Direct TV (which was then owned by ATT) to fix it. He also said he filed a claim with his insurance company to pay for the repair.
So I think this claim from ATT for "equipment damage" is probably related to the satellite dish. If it ever gets beyond, "You owe us money hand it over" and to a real discussion of how much money is owed to whom. I will tell them that if they came onto my property and installed a satellite dish without my knowledge or permission in order to further their business ambitions, they they owe me money for the privilege of using my roof.

[SpyderMike]

When I cancelled Directv they said for me to go ahead and keep all of the equipment...they didn't seem too concerned about the value of the equipment I still have years later (Dish, LNBs, DVR HD Receiver).

[T77911S]

there is a code you can dial that will block your number, I forget what it is.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by T77911S

there is a code you can dial that will block your number, I forget what it is.

In the US it is: *67 then the number.

In Australia (Just in case you ever decide to visit out vast and beautiful land ) it is:

From a home phone, dial 1831 then the number you’re calling
From a mobile phone, dial #31# then the number you’re calling

I do this when calling customers from my mobile. That way they can't call me after hours expecting instant support.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by SpyderMike

When I cancelled Directv they said for me to go ahead and keep all of the equipment...they didn't seem too concerned about the value of the equipment I still have years later (Dish, LNBs, DVR HD Receiver).

It's disposable, cheap, made in China crap....and probably obsolete anyways...even runs of coax as the LNBs, etc. change...btdt with my parents....

When I cancelled Directv years ago, they did try to charge me for a dvr I had purchased in the early daze from Bestbuy....they insisted my "purchase" was a lease....I still had the receipt

[legion]

Insight Communications used to be my local cable provider. They were awesome. All of my service calls went to a building in town and were answered by people that could actually fix problems. I had cable and broadband through them. I purchased a cable modem from them in 2005.

In 2009, they got bought out by Comcast. Without ever making any changes myself, my bill doubled over the next four years. It seemed like every six months they would give me new channels for "free", and six months after that there'd be a substantial increase to my bill. They had some awesome data analytics, as they sorted channels into unrelated packages. In other words, if you like watching Discovery, History, Smithsonian, and Science, they are each in a different channel package.

I cancelled Comcast in February 2013. They owed me a refund for most of my last month of service. It never came. I would call them, and they would tell me that I would get it in 90-120 days. I'd call them 90 days later and get the same story. After TWO YEARS of making these phone calls, they finally told me that they were keeping my refund because I never returned my rented cable modem. I told them that I never rented a cable modem, I purchased one. They told me they don't allow customers to purchase cable modems. I told them that I purchased it from Insight, their precursor, and had used it continuously ever since. They told me there was no way they would have allowed me to use equipment that wasn't rented from Comcast, therefore I must have rented one. I told them to look at my past bills for a rental fee. I finally got my refund 120 days later.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by SpyderMike

When I cancelled Directv they said for me to go ahead and keep all of the equipment...they didn't seem too concerned about the value of the equipment I still have years later (Dish, LNBs, DVR HD Receiver).

Many years ago i cancelled dish network. they told me I needed to remove the dish from my roof and mail the receiver part to them to keep from getting charged for it.

I told them my eyesight prevented me from getting up on the roof, they said never mind. Keep it.
Obviously a scam on their part.

BTW, I was telling them the truth about my eyesight.... I simply couldn't see myself doing what they wanted

[masraum]

Comcast is run by Beelzebub

[sammyg2]

At the risk of being told I have my tin foil hat on too tight:

It's well-known and documented that organized crime (mafia, the syndicate, the mob, etc) has had a foot-hold in the unions, construction, drugs, prostitution and gambling.

What is not as well-known is their involvement in the trash collecting business and more recently, cable TV service.

They buy off and/or extort public officials into giving them lucrative contracts and take over and start jacking up prices, lowering service, and ripping off customers.
This was most prevalent back when they could still get non-competition clauses. IOW when only one cable provider was given a contract to serve a town. Basically a built-in monopoly.

Not all cable providers are in bed with organized crime, but some are. The other ones just seem like it