Imagine if your phone bill was so large that it had to come in a box. That is just what happened to iPhone customer Justine Ezarik, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Her 300-page iPhone bill was sent to her in a large cardboard box that cost AT&T $10 just to mail. AT&T is the sole service provider for the iPhone in the United States.
Lest you think that Ezarik rang up a million dollar phone bill, well let me tell you that wasn’t the case. The bill actually amounted to about $275, more than an average bill, perhaps, but hardly worthy of such a physically large bill that is pages and pages long.
How did it happen? Well, you see, Ezarik loves to send text messages, and every single message that was sent by her iPhone or received to her iPhone was listed on that bill. “On average, I usually send 30,000 to 35,000,” she told a local news station. AT&T said that it rarely sends out bills in boxes, and that customers do have the option of selecting e-billing.
Ezarik is shocked at the amount of waste the bill generated in paper and the box itself. She is using the experience to get the word out and promote e-billing as an alternative to bills in a box. She even created a video that she posted on YouTube and her personal blog. The video has already been viewed more than 200,000 times.
Unfortunately, she says, the publicity may be having an opposite effect. Instead, her video seems to have generated some competition from other iPhone users. “A lot of people said, ‘I’m going to beat you next time. I’m going to get more pages,'” said Ezarik.
If you want to see Ezarik’s video for youself, you can visit her blog at TastyBlogSnack.com.
Mary Ann Romans also writes for the Frugal Living Blog here at Families.com, where she shares money saving tips for today’s families.
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