French Woman gets a phone bill for 11,721,000,000,000,000 Euros
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[quote]A FRENCHWOMAN who received a telephone bill for an amount equivalent to nearly 6000 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 southwestern 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 ($14.92 thousand trillion) to close her account.
"There were so many zeros I couldn't even work out how much it was," she said.
Ms San Jose's alarm mounted 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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That would be a bit of a shock, no clue how they even make that mistake...
That's like the cost of the Earth
They didn't realize they made a mistake when they billed her 14.92 thousand trillion?
Or: How to fix the economy in 2 simple steps
something tells me she wouldn't be able to pay that
Did she even had , that much cash !
Man, inflation's that bad, huh.
October 11th, this is extremely late. Like a year old.
[QUOTE=Plateau;37989952]Did she even had , that much cash ![/QUOTE]
Most likely she, do not !
"Sorry, there is really a mistake, lady. Let me fix that." *Adding a zero*
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