Comments on: Self Storage Business Expense

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:25:40 +0000

Here in England there is a similar Government sponsored scam. UK homeowners have to pay to have a TV licence. They are now trying to charge businesses for a TV licence too. We do not even have a TV. However, they are also stating downloading / streaming live TV from the internet counts too.
Just something for you all to watch out for.

By: Jim888

Jim888 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:46:35 +0000

This is an OLD Billing Scam, here’s how it works.

You start a business that charges customers a monthly fee for something. For about a year you charge them the CORRECT amount.

After about 1 year, when most customers have stopped paying attention to their bills you tack on an extra $5.00 charge and call it an “Administrative fee” or a “use fee” or something like that.

The company charges 1000 customers $5.00 each = $5,000.

Most customers have automatic payment set up and don’t even LOOK at their bill each month, it’s automatically paid through their credit card or bank withdraw each month.

Now, perhaps 10% of the customers will complain and what you do is make them jump through a lot of hoops to get the money back. They have to take the time to fill out a “long and complicated” form to remove the charges and perhaps get a refund.

The company still makes $4,500 profit for a false service charge each month.

I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve seen companies pull this crap.

By: Self Storage Millionaire

Self Storage Millionaire — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:09:54 +0000

Bilge,

Send them a bill for a storage unit… what a funny idea! Would love to do that and see the response! Too funny.

By: Bilgefisher

Bilgefisher — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:11:48 +0000

So what would happen if you sent them a bill for renting a storage unit? How would they respond. Or send them a bill for doing their administrative work for them. There has to be a way to turn this back on them in a dose of their own medicine.

That aside, point taken on never taking anything at face value.

By: Roanoke Public Storage

Roanoke Public Storage — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:17:18 +0000

$8,000 dollars is a huge money, and its funny how they response with your call, it seems like they don’t know what they have sent you, I wonder what they may have done if you haven’t responded quickly to their charges.