How Does AOL Make Any Money?
08/14/2004 – 7:53 p.m. That is the time honored question. I called today to try and change my billing method again or at least find a way to pay said bill. Due to the fiasco with my bank my account was closed. So I went out yesterday and procured one of those prepaid Mastercards. However, I got a temp card and I won’t get the ‘real one’ for 7-10 days. Now when I bought one of these nifty creatures before they gave me a card number and expiration date. Not with this one though. Anyway, so I call AOL to see what could be done. Now if you remember last month they gave me a free month of service for this same issue. Well after explaining what was going on to my friendly rep Carol, she attempted to put my debit card through, but because of gee..no expiration date, it won’t process, so instead of telling me I’m SOL,she says “I’m going to put a month of free service on here and when you get your new card just update the info” Hmm…so now I wonder…how does AOL make any money? I’ve been read
