Dave Winer Pays Comcast 3 Million Dollars

And you thought YOUR cable bill was high; Dave got a receipt from Comcast for $3,030,000.00. He posted a screenshot to Flickr.

Not a bill, but a statement showing he paid that much. Comcast claims it was a glitch. I’m sure we’ve all had something like this happen to us at one time or another – remember my recent travails with Verizon, with their order system repeatedly insisting that I didn’t exist as a customer?

Sure, we may just sigh, and roll our eyes, or laugh, but Dave makes an important point:

I asked for a refund. The operator laughed. I said it was not funny.
This crazy system we’re building is going to melt down one day.

Amen!