Mythbuster Tweets His Way Out of $11k Phone Bill

Remember the $11k phone bill that Mythbuster Adam Savage got from AT&T for using the internet in Canada? It looks like the bill has been dropped. Pretty funny how fast you can get things done when this stuff happens to a celebrity with a huge following.

"Today the tweeps became twoops. Just got off the phone with AT&T and they've taken care of everything to my great satisfaction.#twitterrules," Savage wrote. But though Savage's story may be an extreme, he's not the first – nor will he likely be the last – to suffer a cellular bill snafu.

sad thing is he could probably afford the bill, but the normal guy who does it without knowing would probably be stuck with the bill and no way out......funny how people who have the money are never forced to pay it but the people who dont have it are expected to.

I agree Lamont. Wouldn't have been dropped so easily, if at all, had he not been a celeb.

I wonder if i can tweet my way out of my legit bills...

Fuck celebs and the ass mongering they get from sheep.

Originally Posted by CryingGod

Fuck celebs and the ass mongering they get from sheep.

You do realize that AT&T was conning him, right?

actual costs: 25 cents
what we pay: 11k

and its not even crack

More than being a celebrity I think what matters is the press you can generate.

I have read of plenty of "average joes" who create a large enough snafu to get out of things like this. If I was in the same situation but managed to get [H], Gizmodo and several other tech sites to put it on their front pages and then call some local news stations to try and cover it etc etc it would be dropped

Just so happens Adam can create that sort of press almost instantly because he has a large following to begin with

Mythbuster: celebs get special treatment.
oh man they lost that one.

Ya phone companies sure love to screw with people. Also cable companies.

I was going to say the same thing.

It's like health insurance. If you don't have it, not only do you have to pay the full bill, but you are billed 5 times MORE than if was an insurance claim.

The unfortunate just keep getting hit on the head with the farking hammer.

Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston

sad thing is he could probably afford the bill, but the normal guy who does it without knowing would probably be stuck with the bill and no way out......funny how people who have the money are never forced to pay it but the people who dont have it are expected to.

Just blame AT&T, and not Adam Savage.

Originally Posted by jroe52

actual costs: 25 cents
what we pay: 11k

and its not even crack

sums up everything perfectly. gotta love our corporate legal system.

Originally Posted by spacetrader

sums up everything perfectly. gotta love our corporate legal system.

just like the RIAA, etc heheh.

$50 in songs, $12 billion lawsuit from RIAA.

Originally Posted by jroe52

actual costs: 25 cents
what we pay: 11k

and its not even crack

But their highway robbery is endorsed and supported by the government. Go capitalism!

We need to put a stop to people saying the word 'tweet' before it gets out of control. 'Tweeting' is simply gay. You're not tweeting or twooting or whatever the fuck...you're posting on a social network site. Birds tweet.

interesting thread. If you continues to follow Adam's twitter feed you would find that he thinks the policies in general need to be changed for all. Not just an exception for him.

I dont get the whole mass following of twitter, I've used it for about two days and realized its pretty dumb, I'll stick to facebook for now

Actually normal people have gotten out of big bills many times as well. They are usually pretty nice about it if it is a one time thing that happened by accident.

Everyone in that story, with the possible exception of the $218 trillion dollar bill, is, or should be, on the hook for those charges. Are they outrageously high? Of course they are, it's people being stupid, not paying attention to the fine print, not actually reading terms & conditions, that gets them the ridiculous charges. They all want to cry foul and say they didn't think it would be so high - maybe they should have looked into it beforehand?

Of course, all you have to do now is cause bad PR for the company in question and they drop the whole thing, even if they are completely in the right. Bad bad corporation! You're ruining America with your long, boring policy documents!