Shara Tibken
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320 appearances
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Sep 2024
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why Your Phone Carrier Wants to Connect to Your Bank Account · 5 Sep 2023
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So basically, they're giving you a $5 or $10 discount per line per month.
Or if you were already getting that discount for setting up auto pay, they're saying, hey, we're going to take that discount away if you don't switch to your bank account.
They're really trying to push people to get away from using their credit cards.
Definitely.
People could see their bill go up $5 or $10 if they only have one line.
My editor, his bill wasn't going to go up, but Verizon offered him a $40 discount per month because he has four lines.
You know, $5 may not seem like much, but $40, that's pretty significant.
Some of these offers are very tempting.
We're basically seeing those savings through the discounts.
In a lot of cases, these discounts are actually more than what maybe the credit card fees would amount to.
They're incentivizing us through these discounts because otherwise there's not really a lot of incentive to pay with your bank account.
There's a lot of perks that you get through paying with credit cards a lot of times.
In order for them to get those savings and have this as a long-term sort of savings for them, they're giving us the discounts.
And the discounts aren't like you get a discount for a month.
They're indefinitely, unless they change the terms in six months, like who knows.
But generally, they're long-lasting discounts.
That was something I asked a lot of experts about.
What they told me is paying by ACH, which is your one financial institution talking to the other.
They said it's really safe.
I think a lot of us have paid that way to pay our energy bills or other sort of utility bills that we have.
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