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Reliance Telephone Inmate Communications / Reliance Telephone / RTS / RT / Reliance Telecom / Reliance Telecom Systems / Reliance Telephone Systems / Reliance Telephone Inc / RTI Monopoly: Spent upwards of $300, went 76 cents over on collect account, and received a threatening collections call from Kira who refused to let me speak with anyone else Grand Forks North Dakota
A friend turned themselves in on a probation violation.
I started a collect account with Reliance Telephone in order to maintain contact with them. The website only accepts $150 for 30 days.
I used the $150 within the first four days, and went over by $0.76 (76 cents).
Just moments ago, I received a call from "Kira" in customer service. The conversation and tone was very condescending from the beginning, and sounded even worse than most collection calls I received when I was young ignorant fool with money. :) I pointed her tone out to her.
Kira then asked, "do you want any more calls to and from the jail?" in a threatening manner, as if I would lose contact with the individual.
I pointed this out as well, and stated that, "no I've switched to phone cards as your website only accepts $150 for 30 days".
Kira replied in a pedantic tone, as if I should've known already, that "you could've called us".
I stated that she was rude and threatening. In a rude tone she replied "Have a better day" and hung up.
I called back thinking I'd reach someone else. Nope. So I immediately asked to speak with her supervisor. She stated she is the supervisor, and that complaints were only accepted in writing. But then gave me an email address.
I called a different phone number for the company, the sales/service line, and was met with a similar tone and he said he couldn't do anything but try to find someone. I was placed on hold, and transferred back to Kira. LOL
Kira finally stated there may be someone else that I could talk to, so I was transferred to Anna (the long A - "ah"-na). This person(ality) was much more pleasant and stated that Kira was an assistant supervisor, and that she's the supervisor.
Anna increased the limit and all was fine. (For all I know, I could've still been talking to Kira, but Anna's tone was at least pleasant.
Clearly this company is trying to intimidate people who don't know better in order to get their money.