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Insurance fraud is neat
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Nitr0 posted:Insurance fraud is neat Rip local music venue near me that mysteriously burned down when the owner was denied the permit to bulldoze it to the ground due to its age
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Apr 13, 2021 15:56
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I mean I guess you’re saying that it’s justified because this poster has tried nothing and is out of warranty?
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Apr 13, 2021 16:07
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I was being facetious. (It actually happened though, some years back.)
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Apr 13, 2021 16:23
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always exploit corporations it is always morally correct
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Apr 13, 2021 16:25
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polyester concept posted:always exploit corporations Won't somebody please think of the poor insurance company
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Apr 13, 2021 22:28
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Scudworth posted:Won't somebody please think of the poor insurance company One of my uncles worked for London Life for decades, and uh... nah.
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Apr 13, 2021 23:33
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Scudworth posted:Won't somebody please think of the poor insurance company I do think about insurance companies, and invariably the thought is "gently caress those assholes." Oddly enough, it's the same thought that comes to mind when I think about banks and telecoms in Canada. grack fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Apr 13, 2021 |
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Apr 13, 2021 23:54
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I briefly worked at Economical (as a co-op working on software a decade ago) and what struck me was how inefficient, incompetent and yet stuck up their own rear end the whole organization seemed to be. I did learn that Ontario Personal Auto was by far the #1 source of fraud among all their products by a huge margin. I know a fraud investigator at Aviva and ooo-boy, the things some folks get up to. There are entire schemes to extract tens, hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurers in systematic ways. Anyhow, it's the $400 deductible that keeps that policy profitable, not people's aversion to lying about the cause of the loss. Insurers suck, if it works in your favour to say "oops I dropped it" and make a claim, go for it. Just don't try to do it with amounts they'll miss.
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Apr 14, 2021 02:18
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Mister Facetious posted:Rip local music venue near me that mysteriously burned down when the owner was denied the permit to bulldoze it to the ground due to its age RIP everyone who lived near that place that just got exposed to asbestos and maybe lead
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Apr 14, 2021 06:42
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Nitr0 posted:Insurance fraud is neat It loving is. drat good point.
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Apr 14, 2021 11:54
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Cocaine Bear posted:It loving is. drat good point. 
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Apr 15, 2021 08:14
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quote:The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) said the firms must offer wholesale wireless access to so-called Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), smaller outfits that can then resell the capacity at reduced retail prices and pass on the savings to consumers.
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Apr 15, 2021 22:45
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Won't someone please think of the Big 3 (definitely not colluding) Telecoms with 90% market share!
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Apr 15, 2021 22:50
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This doesn't fully open the door for pure MVNOs, only regional operators that already own wireless infrastructure in Canada. It is still a good first step.
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Apr 15, 2021 22:56
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I've seen some comments saying that this is lubing us up for the rogers/shaw merger
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Apr 16, 2021 00:02
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Why cant we mint a new a new crop of Dave Wireless, Mobilicity and Public Mobile loser-tier carriers every 4 years and let them be gobbled up as normal and just restock the lake telecoms over and over like we do with fish stocks?
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Apr 16, 2021 00:28
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Chris Knight posted:The big three - BCE Inc, Telus Corp, and Rogers Communications Inc - complain that the smaller MVNOs do not help build the expensive infrastructure needed to ensure service in what is the world’s second largest nation. Sounds like a good argument to nationalize the carriers to me.
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Apr 16, 2021 00:43
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Dave Wireless's not here man
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Apr 16, 2021 00:50
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what are the odds this outage gets used by rogers as an excuse to jack up prices because ~~infrastructure~~
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Apr 19, 2021 17:37
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Someone out there obviously lied about rebooting their pc and modem when Rogers tech support ask them to. Ruining it for the rest of us. I hope they track that bastard down.
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Apr 19, 2021 17:40
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I finally got the motivation to do my goddamn taxes and the CRA has to text me a 2FA code which I can't get until this poo poo is resolved. urghhhhh
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Apr 19, 2021 17:44
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https://about.rogers.com/news-ideas/a-message-from-jorge-fernandes-chief-technology-officer-at-rogers/quote:We have identified the root cause of the service issues and pinpointed a recent Ericsson software update that affected a piece of equipment in the central part of our wireless network. That led to intermittent congestion and service impacts for many customers across the country. I'm feeling really good our infrastructure right now. A software update from a foreign company on a single piece of equipment brought down Roger's entire cellar network. It's just that easy. Now the Swedes know they can cripple our telecommunications any time they want. 
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Apr 19, 2021 23:11
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Facebook Aunt posted:https://about.rogers.com/news-ideas/a-message-from-jorge-fernandes-chief-technology-officer-at-rogers/ Well now we just gotta second source from huawei I guess, you guys don’t want more outages do you?!?!?
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Apr 19, 2021 23:40
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Mercifully, service has been restored for me.
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Apr 19, 2021 23:40
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I wonder what Telus did differently, I didn't even know there was an outage for some people.
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Apr 20, 2021 00:02
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Mister Facetious posted:I wonder what Telus did differently, I didn't even know there was an outage for some people. The Huawei firmware spyware underwent additional QA before being released by the company.
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Apr 20, 2021 00:11
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Mister Facetious posted:I wonder what Telus did differently, I didn't even know there was an outage for some people. Millions of people tried to call and tell you about the outage, but they couldn't because of the outage.
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Apr 20, 2021 00:18
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Apr 20, 2021 00:39
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I love the "this country is just too drat large" argument, service outside of Canada's 10 largest cities is loving awful so how much are you really spending on the infrastructure in Smeaton, Saskatchewan?
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Apr 20, 2021 20:59
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A friend of mine is having difficulty with freedom mobile, they sold her a lemon of a phone (moto edge+ with major ghosting issues and turns the screen into a strobe light after long enough use) and according to the wireless code she's entitled to be able to return the phone within 30 days as a person with a disability. But the store has refused to process her refund and also refuses to get in contact with freedom mobile corporate who has told her that she should be able to return the phone. She just got told that it's going to take about a week or so to process the complaint through freedom but by then the 30-day period is going to have expired. This is really stressing her out and she's wondering what her options are. Is pursuing the complaint through freedom worth it? Should file something with the CRTC? Credit card charge back?
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Apr 23, 2021 00:12
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Go straight here and file a complaint. Include the detail of the store address, the date, exactly what they told her. CCTS complaint is the only thing that carriers bother to follow through with. https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/phone/cprstccts.htm
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Apr 23, 2021 00:20
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First Rogers had a day long outage, now Distributel is trying to match it. Their entire phone network cross Canada has been down since around 10am. (although it's mostly voip, so that really doesn't mean much).
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Apr 27, 2021 15:56
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gently caress bell. Really. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-customer-deal-recording-data-1.6004451
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May 3, 2021 15:07
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slidebite posted:gently caress bell. Really. Pretty much exactly what my dealings with Shaw were like. Cancelling felt real good. Looking forward to experiencing similarly terrible customer service from Telus in a couple years and repeating the cycle all over again.
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May 3, 2021 16:44
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Gonna death grip my unicorn plan until Telus shuts down Public Mobile out of sheer spite.
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May 3, 2021 17:41
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Mister Facetious posted:Gonna death grip my unicorn plan until Telus shuts down Public Mobile out of sheer spite. I mean they tried to do this a bit ago before public backlash made them cancel it I think someone in legal really hosed up making a lifetime pricing deal for that bad boy. Tons of marketting for it as a "we will never change the price" plan....
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May 3, 2021 17:51
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Yeah I remember that, that's why I said they would shut down the entire reseller just to get us remaining few.
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May 3, 2021 18:06
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slidebite posted:gently caress bell. Really. Recording all of your interactions with telecoms is a big-brain move we should all emulate ...
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I got a full price bill from fido take out of my autopay after switching to shaw and I was girding myself for a hell of calling in to wrestle a refund and a cheque just showed up with the remainder after pro-rating in the billing cycle! I was very surprised. Between this and getting automatic refunds for an air canada flight cancelled due to covid (although I did have to wait a year) it has been pretty good. Was there a legislative change that forces the telcoms to give refunds because a couple decades ago I switched off of Rogers with about $50 overpaid and it was a devil of a time getting them to cut me a cheque.
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