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I would pay it all now, too.

Submitted by Aryn on April 29, 2008 - 16:17.

I would pay it all now, too. But yeah, people get angry when they suddenly get billed for something that they know they should have been paying all along. My dad wasn't billed for power for an entire year, then he got a huge bill. No problem, he paid it and called to ask if they could keep him on the annual plan.

But it turned out that it was a mistake. A mistake they repeated the next year. The customers sued on the grounds that it wasn't fair to expect them to pay this huge bill all at once - even though they should have known that they'd have to pay at some point -- and they won! The court ruled the power company could only back-bill for two months and forced the company to send rebates to everyone who'd paid the full amount.

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