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    Woman issued quadrillion-dollar phone bill

    A French woman who received a telephone bill for an amount equivalent to nearly 6,000 times the country's annual economic output has had the real amount she owed waived - after finally convincing the company they must have made a mistake.

    Solenne San Jose, from Pessac in the Bordeaux region of south-western France, could not believe her eyes when she opened the bill to discover she was being asked to pay 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros ($A14,676,614,570,049,452) to close her account.

    "There were so many zeroes I couldn't even work out how much it was," she said.

    Ms San Jose's alarm increased when operators at Bouygues Telecom told her they could not amend the computer-generated statement or stop the balance from being debited from her bank account.

    Only after a series of frantic calls did the company finally admit the bill should have been for 117.21 euros.

    Bouygues Telecom said the mix-up had been due to a printing error and a subsequent misunderstanding between the client and staff at their call centre.


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    And that's why you shouldn't set up bills to be paid by direct debit!

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    they probably issued the bill from an Apple device

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    women and phones! need I say more before I run and hide.

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    May the FORCE be with you!

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    Quote Originally Posted by SNOB View Post
    women and phones! need I say more before I run and hide.
    Don't generalise SNOB!!! I hate shopping, and I hate talking on the phone even more...

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    A phone company more useless than Telstra.... well I've learned something today!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hertryk View Post
    Don't generalise SNOB!!! I hate shopping, and I hate talking on the phone even more...
    Snap Hertryk!! I don't get the fascination with shoes either!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hertryk View Post
    Don't generalise SNOB!!! I hate shopping, and I hate talking on the phone even more...
    There are exceptions to ever rule thank God!

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    Quote Originally Posted by hertryk View Post
    Don't generalise SNOB!!! I hate shopping, and I hate talking on the phone even more...
    Come teach kel those tricks! I'll pay for your flights!
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    She should have just wrote out a cheque...

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    coz Stone Cold says so

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sheikh View Post
    And that's why you shouldn't set up bills to be paid by direct debit!
    That's where my 14 quadrillion dollars went.

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