Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount

Re:Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount by pgm8705 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:06AM (#37337339)

Seems like ATT may have screwed this up even worse. They seemingly dropped my autopay discount to $5 from $10 claiming that I am using a credit card, when I'm using my checking account as I always have for the past 10 years.

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Re:Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount by Bilal_io on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:21AM (#37337585)

Xfinity did the same. I had to switch from credit card to bank account to keep my $10 discount. If I recall correctly the deadline was July 31st

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Re:Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount by NoZebra120vClip on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:34AM (#37337752)

In these United States, it's rather perilous to use your direct ACH bank account. The protections around this method are so minimal, hope you'll never have a dispute with a creditor.

Which is exactly why ACH is the cheapest/most discounted method.

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Re:Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount by camhenlin on Thursday August 31, 2023 @10:36AM (#37337784)

Yep, not worth the additional discount for me. I'm not giving AT&T my bank account information or any authorizations around it

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Re:Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount by delfinom on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:01AM (#37338247)

Which is why I love credit unions. I roll with multiple checking accounts at no cost. It makes giving out ACH details less iffy ;)

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Re:Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount by salad-tycoon on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:11AM (#37338420)

I’m pretty terrible at this stuff but just got into a couple of CU and capital one, I’m branching out.

Help me understand, you have one checking account for one recurrent bill and then manually make sure that checking account has enough balance to cover that one recurring bill every month? That way nobody can drain your main funds, right? But what if there’s a big charge then you would be overdrafted?

I also saw qube recommended here on another thread as a simple way to make and close accounts easily (I think that’s the idea).

Unrelated, I like the extra protection credit cards give and the extra warranty and theft clauses. Hope visa and MC can get their act together.

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Re:Wireless carriers are messing with your autopay discount by 7thzero on Thursday August 31, 2023 @03:59PM (#37342890)

Same here. I think of this approach as a form of "financial firewalling"

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