Three years ago I was in the process of starting a remodeling business. I had spoken with a rep from southwestern bell yellow pages, who came out a drew up some advertising ideas. Well the rep has me sign a paper called application for directory advertising but I don not get any copies of this paperwork because he said they would mail me a proof and a contract for the advertising. Two weeks came and gone and so I did not think they were going to publish my ads. When the new phone book came out I grabbed it up and started looking for my ad and it was in the phone book alright with the wrong phone number!
I called Southwesternbell and told them the ad was wrong and they said well you signed for the ad and they would not discount the ad what so ever. For two years I did not hear a word from anyone about the ad or owing money for it untill a year ago when I was served a summons. I then contacted the attorny and asked her to send me copies of everything I signed. She did not send me the paper work and then tried to get a summery judgment. I think she did not think I was going to show up to court and she was very suprized when the judge called my name.
The judge said he would allow me to write a motion in responce to her claim. I wrote the motion thinking the judge is going to throw this out because the phone number was wrong and that I never seen the proofs and he would see were the rep signed the actual documents with "sig on file" I never signed these papers, never seen the proofs for the ads, or agreed to the phone number being wrong. Well this friday the judge sided with south western bell. So do not sign any documents at any time thinking the rep is a nice guy and they are not going to rip me off, well the did to the sume of about $2000.00
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