I found a plan I can live with. Mostly people call me, so I went for a plan that allows unlimited incoming calls. It’s still way too much money, but compared to the plan I had to support my Blackberry, I was happy.

Imagine my surprise when my cell bell for September was almost $100. Breathe … breathe … It was a good thing I opened the e-bill after hours. No customer service representative should have to listen to me with a full head of steam … AND … they’re not going to go out of their way to help you if you’re unpleasant.

This afternoon I called my provider to ask for the details of a $29.05 charge for “Charges and Long Distance”. Turns out it’s for text advertising. Someone is spamming me and I’m paying for it. Apparently I consented to this .. hmm .. don’t remember doing that ..

While I had my Blackberry I didn’t notice, but now I’ve trimmed my bill back it was obvious. The representative says I had to sign up to be advertised to AND pay for it. I have to wait until the next text message arrives to find out who’se doing this. You can be sure I’ll have something to say to the company.

To their credit, my service provider did credit this month’s charges. I looked at back bills to discover I’ve been receiving these messages for 4 months .. I paid $108.49 for someone to spam me with text messages. Somehow e-mail spam doesn’t seem so bad after all … at least you can create a filter to throw them into the trash.

Stop whining .. do something .. I take a deep breath and ask the representative to block this type of text message .. sorry ma’am, I can only block ALL text messages and we don’t make any money from these messages only the company that’s sending them .. okay that’s a little hard to believe, but she just took almost $30 off my cell phone bill, so I’ll let it slide.

Next month, I look forward to a normal cell phone bill.

Am I the only one that’s been caught by these charges?