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  1. 06-29-2006, 01:02 PM #1
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    AOL Admits 40% of Subscribers Don't Have Computers

    Found it funny

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    LOL. now if a dell isn't technicially a computer would that mean 100% of AOL users don't have computers
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  3. 06-29-2006, 01:13 PM #3
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    "I kind of thought it was like subscribing to the yellow pages," said Lewen. "We kept getting copies of the phone book, so I thought AOL was doing that. I also wanted the virus protection, because it was flu season."
    This has to be a joke, no freaking way

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    "Well, I got the disk in the mail, and it said if I wanted to subscribed I should send money to these people," said Carl Lewen, an AOL subscriber in Kentucky who does not own a computer. "It never said anything about having to do anything with the disk. I thought it was kind of like a souvenir."
    LOL!

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    they would have to be so stupid or really retarded to send money for a service that they are not intending on using. it just doesn't make any sense...
    but yes a good joke! indeed
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  6. 06-29-2006, 01:43 PM #6
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    They called and tried to cancel but AOL would not let them do that.
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    Time Warner said last week that AOL lost 646,000 subscribers in the third quarter, reducing its subscriber count to 22.7 million U.S. members as of Sept. 30. It lost two million subscribers year over year. The revelation that 40% of its subscribers do not own computers could not have come at a worse time.
    Good, i hope they loose all of thier customers, but i guess with all the retards paying for a service they dont use that wont happen anytime soon.
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  8. 06-29-2006, 02:54 PM #8
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    I like the time stamp also. =p

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    Well it doesn't matter it's so true. I'm stuck with AOL on the weekdays... my parents are ******************** so 56k it is... well only my dad. My mom has dsl. Anyway they have the worst customer service ever and they are the worst company ever. EVER
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  11. 06-29-2006, 05:38 PM #11
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    what!!!! they still offer that type of service? i thought they worked primarily with their instant messaging service as of lately.
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    Aim is free isnt it? They need to make money some how, so i guess they have resorted to shafting the ignorant.
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    Its probably because if you buy a new computer best buy or circuit cirty you need to sign up for 1, 2, or 3 year contract AOL, compuserve etc. to get the extra $200 rebate but during 1, 2, 3 years they figure that dial is too slow. they want to cancel but they can't so they end up getting dsl or cable and dial up at the same time. but in the end the comsumer ends up paying more than the $200 rebate. thats just an exmaple I don't know the exact price now.
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    well, they make plenty of money from aim.. you dont pay for google do you? its all ads. they got more annoying with their ads though, they started having some dumb video ads that popped out of nowhere, so i switched to trillian...
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    Quote Originally Posted by cky2k6
    well, they make plenty of money from aim.. you dont pay for google do you? its all ads. they got more annoying with their ads though, they started having some dumb video ads that popped out of nowhere, so i switched to trillian...
    yeah i use trillian too for AIM and msm. but I use Yahoo messenger because I actually use some of its features.
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    "Microsoft admits 75% of users use illegal windows"

    Wouldn't matter to MS, so this wouldn't matter to AOL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Delirious
    Aim is free isnt it? They need to make money some how, so i guess they have resorted to shafting the ignorant.
    they didnt "resort" to that.. thats what they have been doing since the company was created.
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    You mean Norton Anti-Virus won't protect me from the Flu!?
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    Wow, there are some really sheltered people out there in my country. People in America, as in generational Americans, still haven't heard of the internet?!!

    Must be mountain people living in the boonies.
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    Volume 2, Issue 38, November 16, 2004

    Guys.. this is XS News

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    The world: Because the whole world hates you, and you don't even know why!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Thorry
    Volume 2, Issue 38, November 16, 2004

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDude
    You mean Norton Anti-Virus won't protect me from the Flu!?
    And I've been going outside with wet hair!!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gryph
    They called and tried to cancel but AOL would not let them do that.
    Thats basically true. Have you ever tried to cancel an AOL account? I had to cancel my mothers for her.
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