They want to shut me down - part two

It is easy to enjoy the fiction world with the Camel Club or Jack Reacher in wanting to stay off the grid but since I have neither the skills of Oliver Stone nor Jack Reacher, it is not easy. 

Already, as blogged earlier, big guys are not pleased with my blogging and that ham-handed attempt to shut me down didn’t work, but a recent issue with my ISP has reinforced my suspicion.  Let me enumerate the issues:

Before, the basics:

• I am one of the early birds who got on to a scheme with low payouts and adequate speed, when broadband was new.  Since I don’t require the ‘fast’ connections (no download of videos or music), I am impervious to my ISP’s marketing attempts to ‘cost-creep’ - to entice into a faster connection for a few hundreds of rupees more and to ensure a commitment to thousand(s) of rupees in a few months.  My broadband plan is still in few hundreds with free calls to boot.
• I always make payment by cash, to prevent my ISP from having knowledge of  my bank or credit card details.
• I blog under a nom-de-plume, as a first wall of protection against intrusion, with a heavily pixellated image, which may not adequately represent me. (Even people who know me ask whether mad.madrasi is really me! - trust me, it works).  Breaching this protection (and to find out my real world ID) may be possible, but would prove that people who *breach* are in fact *stalking* me and that is where my *shield* would come into play.

But the powers that are are smarter - to the issues now:

• In Sep 2010, (Aug bill) when I paid my ISP by  cash on the due date (at ISP’s collection point), they took two weeks to reflect credit & in the bargain, slapped me with a penalty for late payment.  (They agreed to waive that, after a some discussions).
• In Oct (Sep bill), I switched to an ISP authorized associate bill collection service, and paid on the due date, which was shown as late by a day - and another late fee penalty. (Which is still under discussion). 
• In Nov, (this month, Oct bill), I switched back to ISP collection point but paid 3 days in advance.  By all normal expectations, (and even with my apprehensions), I should have faced no problems.  They issued me a receipt on the ISP’s receipt-head, and foolishly I failed to check the receipt. 
• Lo and Behold!  The payment has been shown as made to a number, just one digit altered from my own broadband number.  Like If my number was (it is not) 1234 3210, they took the payment as for 1234 3218.

I’ve protested within 24 hours about the discrepancy and they’ve promised to sort out the issue within another 2 weeks.

The point to note here is that in all the 3 cases, in Sep, Oct & Nov 2010, I made the payment personally, by cash, for not only my own, but also on behalf of two friends with broadband accounts with the same ISP.  The receipt numbers are consecutive.

And none of their accounts (other 2 guys) show any discrepancy or penalty for all these payments.  But then, they don’t blog.
:-E

I am not sure of what is happening here, but my own account being penalised out of three (almost) simultaneous payments, by cash, together, does seem that something fishy is going on.

What do you think?

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