Howard Gayle <howard@halserv2.hal.com> (05/09/91)
I just got new service from Pacific Bell. I chose to pay an $80 deposit rather than answer credit-application type questions. They claim they'll refund the deposit in one year, with 7% interest. This is a higher interest rate than any local bank money market account I know of. Too bad they won't take a bigger deposit! :-)
Henry Mensch <henry@ads.com> (05/12/91)
Hmm ... I wouldn't answer those questions either, and I didn't have to pay a deposit (although the first telebozo I spoke to was insisting that I had to turn up at a Pac*Bell office with photo ID before the installation date. Maybe I should have paid .. :) (this is recent experience ... like last month!) Henry Mensch / Advanced Decision Systems / <henry@ads.com>