I try to be responsible about my cell phone bills trying my hardest not to get more than 1 payment behind. I even got mad at my family members that had their cell phones or home phones cut off because they didn't pay their bills. I don't know how someone can get a $1,000 or more racked up on the phone bill but it happens!
I split with my ex-girlfriend and she promised that she would never take advantage of her keeping the cell phone I got for her IN MY NAME!
Well she made one payment about a month after we split and it was only for half her bill. A month after that I began to get the calls from the cell company to pay MY bill. This was not fun and I did contact her, she promised to pay it off within the next month. So I gave her the benefit of the doubt but she didn't pay anything. I got the calls again.
This time I was mad, MAD! I cancelled the phone, told them to mail the bills to my new address, and I would start making payments. I was being very nice and at this point I wanted to cut all ties to my ex. I had to pay almost $500 and started making $50 payments each week. I thought all was good now.
Wrong! I got the new bill and there was $400 more in charges! She had phoned the cell company and made them reconnect the phone even though I told them NO one else had any authority to make changes to this account. The phone company took no responsibility in their wrong doing and I now had almost $900 to pay back. I'm happy to say that she was not able to reactivate that phone again.
It took me about 6 months to pay this off because I had just moved and was working crappy jobs but thankfully living with some good friends.
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