Well, a fine slap in the face from Microsoft… Turns out that when you cancel your gamertag for the XBox Live service, you cannot recover it in the future… Most people wouldn’t care here, but I do for two reasons…
1. Moguai is mine on their service, i’d have preferred to keep it…
2. If you port your old gamertag up to XBL for the 360, you get a free copy of Halo3…
As I can’t port up, I can’t do the deal :(…
Why did I cancel my XBL you ask? Well, in 2003 they overcharged us, and refused to refund us as their systems “didn’t allow” for it; so I had my creditcard company do it on their behalf and told them where they could put it…
So, now I’m on XBL as Gremelin, but still wanting to take part in the XBL thing to get a (second) copy of halo3…
So we look at the Qwest house line bill today, $75… Wait… It’s usually $56 you say? Well it turns out they’ve found yet-another way to nickle and dime us… The Usage Fee…
The usage fee charges us per minute of how much we use our phone, we’ve never signed up for this “service”, nor would we… Why would I want to be charged per minute to talk on my landline phone to people in my area code (there is no LD on this line)… Idiots…
We call in, and supposedly we’ve “always” had this… Funny, I’d know if I signed up to be gang raped… So they’re issuing a credit, but their not sure “how far back” it will go, joy…
I find it funny, that i moved my second line to Vonage, and am contemplating moving the main line to Comcast… Why you ask? Because this crap is costing way too much…
We have 3 cellphones, 1 house line, and 1 VOIP line; I have no problem having two VOIP lines ;)…