We're sorry, now pay your bill

Another miscommunication victim in Lebanon has to pay. What happened
was, with the new postpaid reduction tariff, a lot of people have
decided to convert their prepaid lines to postpaid. Everyone is
excited. You just need a bank account for the domiciliation of your
monthly bill.

A person I know, did it, he now has a postpaid line. He's happy about
it. The bill came after 30 days only to find out that it is more than
what he expected. It turns out that for the first bill only, they take
an extra monthly subscription to what he should pay (monthly
subscription + calls and SMS charges, etc...) .

He asked them, how could you have failed to tell me? Their answer was:
"Well you saw, there was a lot of crowd when you came, and we just
forgot"

I know for a fact that such mistakes are supposed to be corrected by
the service provider, but in Lebanon, they don't, they just tell you,
we're really sorry, now pay your bill...
Welcome to Lebanon.

What do I think?

Ziad Baroud sent me an sms, personally (ok to every other Lebanese I
think) telling us that if the elections is important to us as much as
it is to him, to verify the data written about us in the voters list
in www.dgps.gov.lb or in the municipality.

Coldplay are not coming to Lebanon. No one comes to Lebanon, we're
talking big bands, they all go to Dubai. Why? Because most of us
Lebanese and Lebanese politicians and everyone else that has to do
with Lebanon are ruining our chances to becoming the Paris of the
middle east.

Think of it this way, if there was a concert for Coldplay or Andrea
Boccelli or anyone else, one in UAE and one in Lebanon, which one
would you choose to go to? Considering that you live in neither
countries.

Finaly, I think we should make some sort of a campaign and spread an
awareness, maybe put ads on a couple of billboards urging our
politicians and the people not to make these elections bad ones, do no
ruin and destroy our chances of having the best summer, tourism wise,
since a decade.