Saving Money With A Simple Phone Call
9 September 2006The Weight of Money has a post on three phone calls she made that saved her some extra cash - ranging from $3 to $40. What’s the common theme? Some company she pays bills to had an error in dealing with her, and she spent 5-10 minutes getting them corrected. If you don’t check over your bills, no one else is going to do it for you. The company you owe money to only has an incentive to correct things if it helps them - and either way, they don’t spend too much time going over things. You know your own situation, and you’re the one who will have to get an error corrected. And even a small amount of money is probably worth that 10 minute call. If you’re saving $40, then it’s a no brainer.
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One Response to “Saving Money With A Simple Phone Call”
October 13th, 2006 at 2:22 pm
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