Money: Today, I discovered our AOL billing information. Turns out we've...

By Jay - 02/08/2010 17:23 - United States

Today, I discovered our AOL billing information. Turns out we've been paying for dial-up via automatic bill paying that we thought we cancelled in 2000. $1,800 later, we called to cancel. Customer service congratulated us on being loyal members for over 13 years. FML

I agree, your life sucks 20 669

You deserved it 30 854

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By bug20 - 18/07/2016 09:27 - United States - Wooster

Today, I received an almost $400 bill for Internet services I don't even have. When I called and talk to them they told me I still owe them $77 because I didn't catch it within 3 months. FML

I agree, your life sucks 13 251

You deserved it 998

By broke bitch - 23/06/2015 04:15 - United States - Hampton

Today, I got a call from my cable company in regards to a bill I didn't pay. I paid the bill two weeks ago in full, but they never told me the account changed when my name was put on the account. So now I owe $170 more, and my ex-roommate is getting a $140 refund in the mail. FML

I agree, your life sucks 26 475

You deserved it 2 322

By secret - 11/03/2010 05:18 - United States

Today, I found out the electric bill I have been paying was on my old house. I found this out when they shut off the power to my house. FML

I agree, your life sucks 15 862

You deserved it 20 285

Infrastructure

By fedUPwithPEOPLE - 31/07/2014 07:35 - United States - Enterprise

Today, the city shut off our water, because they said we didn't pay the bill. Turns out, it was sitting on their desk the whole time. I guess sending someone out to turn off our water was easier than checking to see if we'd actually paid the bill. FML

I agree, your life sucks 45 473

You deserved it 3 221

By Broke - 27/03/2009 00:24 - United States

Today, I was entered into an online contest where they announce your name on the radio and if you call in within an hour they pay your bills for you. I'm unemployed, so I got really excited when they announced my name. My call wouldn't go through - I hadn't paid my phone bill and the line was disconnected. FML

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You deserved it 28 668

Can't buy me love

By Anonymous - 23/11/2020 04:02 - Japan - Okayama

Today, I realized while paying bills on my phone I fat-fingered which credit card I was paying and sent 299 to a paid-off card instead of 200 to another one. Now I'm going to have overdraft fees too. FML

I agree, your life sucks 661

You deserved it 437

Leave us alone!

By J.. - 27/04/2021 17:01

Today, I've been receiving a lot of calls from my telephone company, offering combo packages with internet, Netflix, Disney+ and whatever the fuck. We had previously resigned from their services, because the company never had the intention of fixing an outage that was caused BY THE SAME COMPANY. FML

I agree, your life sucks 826

You deserved it 66

By GetMoney - 01/10/2009 01:22 - United States

Today, I realized that 6 months ago I signed up for a 3 day trial for a porn website that turns into a $30 membership after 3 days. I completely forgot the day after and never viewed it. I've spent $180 so far. And I can't remember my password. FML

I agree, your life sucks 10 383

You deserved it 66 250

By Anonymous - 30/09/2009 02:11 - Canada

Today, I received a surprise "absolute final notice" email for payment of an overdue fee from the university I withdrew from 6 months ago. Turns out, my old landlord has been hoarding their letters to me. As a result, my credit is now in the shitter and I had to pay an extra $120 in interest. FML

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You deserved it 2 892

By Anonymous - 28/02/2013 07:19 - United States - Portland

Today, I found that someone had paid off my $16,500 student loan. I was so excited that I called my family and posted on Facebook about how awesome it was. Then I called the loan company and found out that they had just sold my loan to another company; no one had actually paid it off. FML

I agree, your life sucks 30 484

You deserved it 14 192

FailVader 0

Monday 2 August 2010 23:28

Wow, fail. AOL should be changed to "LOL"

rexcanis 10

Monday 2 August 2010 23:34

#1 How would you not notice the monthly billing deduction from your bank account? #2 Why do you even have AOL on your computer still?

Comments

VerTicalSnipes 5

Tuesday 11 October 2011 5:19

Hey number 55 are you stupid?

Victoire_W 0

Thursday 20 October 2011 11:37

34 got removed.

ellosarah 0

Thursday 29 March 2012 22:56

I think you mean 12, because it's 2012. Not 2013

Cinn_fml 22

Friday 30 March 2012 13:02

They would have been customers for some time prior to when they cancelled the bill/account. Also, it was posted in 2010.

VoodooPriestess 16

Tuesday 8 April 2014 6:50

The same thing happened to my aunt. She was so pissed.

fml_ipad 2

Wednesday 4 June 2014 23:08

They are illegally stealing people money and it says aol when it is a different company so you can't sue them, the did that to me

razoron333 3

Wednesday 13 August 2014 16:53

Wait they bill you for Alfheim Online?! I need to do something real quick. Jk

jasonrellet 22

Tuesday 11 October 2016 8:00

I work on computers for elderly people as a side job and when I find one of my clients has AOL, and they have something wrong with their computer, I tell them their first problem is that they still have AOL, and then their next problem is whatever they say is wrong.