AOL Can Go to Hell

I, too, have been with AOL since 2.5. I belive I even have a 2.5 floppy around somewhere! I do get pissed at the quality of service at times, but I have no plans to change. Those of you who try to call Customer Service to be disconnected are going about it all wrong. The quickest solution is to have someone report you for a TOS violation! :wally

Barbitu8, i scratched cuss words into them, tic-tac-toe games on another, anarchy symbols, and a swirly doodle around the words fuck aol, and anarchy. these disks are trashed. Fucking them up makes me feel better.

Hell, the Circle K stores around here have stacks of AOHell disks on the counter, free for the taking.

I want to cover the ceiling in my bedroom with em. :smiley:

Blockbuster video similarily used to have tons of Prodigy internet service discs all around the freaking place. My friends and I would take a bunch and devise different ways of breaking them, or seeing how far across a parking lot they could be thrown. The answers to our queries turned out to be that they’re pretty hard to break, but they can be thrown a pretty good distance.

I would suggest you perform similar experiments yourself; covering a ceiling with AOL discs strikes me as being just too constructive for what they are. AOL needs to always be associated with destruction!

barbitu8, I’m glad you had a good experience with Earthlink.

Unfortunately, I canceled my short-lived service with them when I discovered they had lied to me about the the amount of webspace available with my premium account.

Altogether my family and I have been sent four and a half thousand AOL CDs, now what is truly impressive about this is that I live in New Zealand, about as far away as it is possible to get from being able to use them :).

You have to wonder what they were thinking

Well, I called my ISP (Broadgate01) on a Monday when my connection cut out, and they stayed on the phone for two hours verifying my settings, called back the next day to see if anything had changed (and stayed on for an hour going through all the settings again), sent three guys to my apartment on Wednesday do check the building’s router and my apartment connection, then sent three more guys on Friday (I was busy Thursday) to check my computer’s hardware, where the problem was found. All for free.

Now would AOL do that?

Not only would they not, they didn’t come close. When I couldn’t connect, they told me, in effect, to go to Hell. At least Earthlink tried, but they didn’t come out and I wouldn’t expect them too as their nearest service guys are probably many miles away. They advised me to have my connection checked and the outside wires checked, which I had done. Every thing was OK, but I still couldn’t connect. I did spend hours with them on the phone, however.

Quickest way to unsubscribe from AOL?

Cancel the credit card it gets charged to.

I’m totally with you on this one. AOL is like the a turtle on my computer. Everything takes about 5 minutes to load. I tried to install Earthlink but whenever I try to get to the other account I THOUGHT I set up, I couldn’t do it. It said I had more than one account but. . .

Anyone know how to get to the other one I set up?

HERE HERE!!

I’ve been (regrettably) using AOL since version 2.0, and I too remember being able to have multiple screen names on. Then, this feature disappeared, and now what solution do they haev for you? Why, just purchase another account and pay another $21.95 a month. Bullshit, to me it sounds iffy when they could just re-implement the technology.

Though, perhaps with multiple SNs for each account on simultaneously, the load placed on AOLs servers would be too much, with their “millions and millions” of subscribers.

I just extracted a refund from AOL! Yay me! January 2000 when I moved to Australia, I set up AOL (nope I didn’t know how bad they sucked, they weren’t in NZ and silly me just thought they were an ISP like any other). They sucked. I used them for oh, 5 days?

3 months later they began billing me $8 a month. I didn’t notice until about 3 months ago and finally I wrote them a letter calling them unethical. A service rep just rang me and get this! They will refund the last 6 months but they cannot check how long they have been leaching $8 from my account and whether or not I have actually used said account because they don’t keep records! Arseholes! That can’t be legal! But anyway after I made a few choice comments about the company which employed him, he agreed to refund what he could.

Having seen said records, they do indeed exist. AOL keeps very specific usage logs on their members. Or at least, they did back when I had access to such information.

I, too, just gained victory over AOL. After being billed for AOLbyPhone twice on my bill, I called up and spoke to a very nice and helpful young woman named Jennifer. After explaining to Jennifer that I had not signed up for the service and had not used it, she, without hesitation, immediately cancelled my enrollment in this pay service and refunded not only my lost $9.31 through AOLbyPhone, but also credited me $9.95 for my next month’s service in apology for AOL’s error.

God I love AOL. :smiley:

Hundreds of dollars? Try thousands, maybe even tens of thousands. Although I have no first-hand experience, AOL’s rep in the legal biz is that they employ Walmart and Ford style obstruction to drive up the cost of litigation to the point of crushing most lawsuits.

I’ll file in the local small claims court. Probably get a default judgment.