http://www.nidrahb.com/directv The Individual vs. The Corporation Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:45:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en VICTORY! 4:30 p.m, November 14, 2007 If you haven't yet responded to the email sent to you, please don't do so now.  I got a call at the time and date above from the DirecTV office in Oklahoma and talked to Chris F., Rep ID 400604, who informed me that they had ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=1 I was raised badly by parents who before me were raised badly, and then sent off in 1968 to fight in the Viet Nam war.  This experience debilitated me for almost 30 years, but I bounced back somewhat admirably after going back to Viet Nam and spending 10 winters there between the ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=3 When I first moved into my shop apartment, I don't remember having TV at all for a while.  On the main rental house, where my friend Carol Shepherd was living, there was a roof antennae that I never took the trouble to tap into.  The first TV I remember having ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=4 The account with DirecTV and myself (and tenant) was started on March 2, 2006.  The 3-month 'Special' deal was up on June 2, 2006.  I renegotiated down to the basic connection for $27 somewhere around this time. As DirecTV bills in advance for their services, on June 3, 2006 I received ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=5 If there was some interim correspondence, as this next letter I wrote to DirecTV seems to indicate, it is lost.  Nevertheless, the information in my letter below, and the tone of it, is certainly corallary to the bill I was sent for the month of September for $104.26, and the ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=6 After the 'Show me in writing!' letter to DirecTV, I didn't hear anything for awhile.  Then I started getting mail and telephone calls from CBE Group, Inc., a debt collection agency.  I responded to their first debt collection effort for DirecTV as follows: CBE Group, Inc. PO Box 2635 Waterloo, IA 50704-2635 Re: 05-009877016 Folks, Yes, ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=7 Prior to this correspondence, in a telephone conversation I asked the CBE Group to send me a copy of the bills I was supposed to owe.  I had asked this of Direct TV some time before, but never received anything. This is the second letter to CBE Group Inc.: December 4, 2006 CBE Group Inc. P.O. ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=8 Apparently the CBE Group had sent my letter to DirecTV and it was they who sent a billing ledger along with the letter below: February 6, 2007 Willard Hardin [address] Re: DIRECTV Account Number 009408062 Dear Mr. Hardin: We have received notification of your correspondence regarding your DIRECTV account.  We appreciate the opportunity to respond to ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=9 Sometime after this last letter from DIRECTV I went to the Clallam County court house and asked if I could file a civil suit against DIRECTV.  I was told that I had no power at all to start any action whatever myself, as an individual, against them.  I was advised ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=10 After my unsuccessful trip to the courthouse on February 13, and knowing that I had still not heard the last of DIRECTV (even though I had now sent back their receivers), I contacted the Better Business Bureau and initiated a complaint against them on February 14, 2007.  This complaint can ... http://www.nidrahb.com/directv/?p=11