A Letter
A letter I got from my accountant’s office today:
April 18, 2008
Dear Ben,
Your 2007 tax returns were acknowledged as accepted by the IRS and the State of Illinois on April 15, 2008. There are balances due of $—.
Make your checks payable to “US Treasury” and “IL Dept of Revenue” and mail your payment voucher on or before April 15, 2008.
Sincerely,
Your Prompt Accountant Who Took A Month And A Half To Get Your Taxes Done…In The Nick Of Time!
Luckily I sent in my checks on the 15th, but if I hadn’t, this letter definitely would have reminded me to send them eight days ago. Thanks, Accountant!
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Mike Harmon
I am getting similar voice mails, emails and USPS mail from AmX ever since I canceled my gold card two weeks ago.
VM: “This is NOT a sales call. You need to contact us immediately about an important matter regarding your account.”
EM: Your account is seriously past due. You have a past due balance of $0.00, of which $0.00 is due immediately.
This is indicative of my experience with them. The past 4 times I’ve had businss trips, I called them to tell them, “I’m travelling to “somewhere city” and will be using my AmX card for hotel and expenses. I expect to spend “$amount” on my card.” I get to said hotel in “somewhere city”, check in, they swipe my card and say it’s been denied. So there at the front desk I’m calling AmX to find out WTF is going on. “Oh, I’m sorry Mr. gayCMEguy. I don’t know why this happened, it’s in the system that you called, and the account was cleared for the charges.” Four times in a row. And they wonder why I cancelled my account and don’t want to pay $125.00 annually for this level of incompetent customer service. F-you very much AmX. Visa, it’s where you want to be.