{"id":326496,"date":"2010-02-16T10:23:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002189"},"modified":"2010-02-16T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T16:28:47","slug":"steve-jobs-doesnt-trust-consumerist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/326496","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs Doesn&#8217;t Trust Consumerist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/stevejobswaitsforconsumeristoload-withlies-thumb-625x200-37050.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/api\/diggthis.php?u=http:\/\/digg.com\/apple\/Steve_Jobs_Doesn_t_Trust_Consumerist_com\" align=\"right\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"82\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"55\"><\/iframe>Rob emailed Steve Jobs to tell him that until Apple fixed reader Joel&#8217;s account that had been<a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/revolutionary-new-apple-service-bills-your-amex-card-for-nearly-50000-in-music.html\"> billed $50,000 for iTunes purchases<\/a>, he wouldn&#8217;t buy another Apple product. Replying via iPad, Steve Jobs told him, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t believe everything you read from places like this.&#8221; Ohhhh snap! But it wouldn&#8217;t be Jobs who had the last laugh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From: Rob M<br \/>\nDate: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:31 PM<br \/>\nSubject: Re: Consumerist &#8212; Apple gouging iTunes customer for 50,000 on Amex. Apple won&#8217;t help. Will Steve Jobs?????<br \/>\nTo: Steve Jobs <sjobs@apple.com><\/p>\n<p>Read the article here. <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/revolutionary-new-apple-service-bills-your-amex-card-for-nearly-50000-in-music.html\">http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/revolutionary-new-apple-service-bills-your-amex-card-for-nearly-50000-in-music.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will no longer purchase from iTunes until I find out how Apple ultimately resolves this and will encourage friends to do the same.<\/p>\n<p>Time to step up and fix customer service problems.   <\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Rob M<\/p>\n<p>On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Steve Jobs <sjobs@apple.com> wrote:<br \/>\nI wouldn&#8217;t believe everything you read from places like this. <\/p>\n<p>Sent from my iPad&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hardee har har. But, the next day an iTunes specialist solved Joel&#8217;s problem. Turned out that Joel had purchased iTunes Plus for his entire music library. Apple is reversing the upgrade and refunding the charges to his account.<\/p>\n<p>So, Steve Jobs message is, &#8220;don&#8217;t trust blogs, but verify in case they&#8217;re right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not offended. We don&#8217;t believe everything we hear from people like Steve Jobs either.<\/p>\n<p>PREVIOUSLY: <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/revolutionary-new-apple-service-bills-your-amex-card-for-nearly-50000-in-music.html\">Revolutionary New Apple Service Bills Your AMEX Card For Nearly $50,000 In Music<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob emailed Steve Jobs to tell him that until Apple fixed reader Joel&#8217;s account that had been billed $50,000 for iTunes purchases, he wouldn&#8217;t buy another Apple product. Replying via iPad, Steve Jobs told him, &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t believe everything you read from places like this.&#8221; Ohhhh snap! But it wouldn&#8217;t be Jobs who had the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}