Just Trying to Pay My Bills.com

You may have caught the NPR segment this morning regarding paying bills electronically… At first I thought the deal was going to be that the dot-com bill payment companies would soon be shutting their doors. To the contrary, some companies are viewing check-based payment as a potential revenue source and encouraging customers to pay online to avoid fees. This came as a surprise to me. Not only have I seen no incentive from companies to pay electronically, it’s been a pain the ass to get many of my billers up and running on paymybills.com. I’m currently trying to get my T-Mobile account set up online, much to my frustration.

November 20th, 2002