The saga continues.

[mbarrick]

Apparently the student loan people received the money and it hasn't been returned. They've ripped me off for $500. Isn't that just lovely. The bank has contacted them directly to get the money back. Meanwhile I still have enough money for rent, but nothing else.

And as a fun little sideline my ISP has fucked up as well. I was charged waaaay to much for my ADSL line. At first glance I thought I was being surcharged for bandwith but when I checked the fee schedule I realised that there's no way I would have come close to my allotment, let alone have gone over it enough to warrant the charges. I looked into it a bit and it turned out I was being surcharged for uploading a small webpage to my personal directory to monitor my servers. The FTP calls were being logged as dial-up calls that I was billed for.

Comments

[opium.livejournal.com]

That's stupid.
You have telus? You're supposed to get 5 hours of free dial-up per month if you have ADSL

Not Telus

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I'm actually with a third-party reseller. I've been with these guys since they were a dial-up BBS and generally get better service because of it. This whole fuck-up is related to the fact that I still use the old BBS interface via telnet and FTP. I was sending a 6K file up by FTP once a minute to monitor my server and the old BBS software was logging each connect as a "call" - I've only got two hours and seventeen minutes of connect time, (and it is "soft" connect time at that, I never tied up a phone line) but I think the BBS software logs each "call" at some set minimum (1¢ it looks like) - and I have over 36,000 "calls" logged. I've explained it in detail to the customer support people and they've passed it to tech guys to look into it. I'm sure they'll have it sorted out on Tuesday, but right now it is another $377 that isn't in my pocket.