Carolsue

My 75-year old friend STILL has the old AOL Desktop and she is NOT paying for it. Even if she were, wouldn't she have to upgrade to the new AOL Gold? I know a few other people who still have it and aren't paying for it either. I also have a friend who had 7 AOL e-mail addresses and all were shut down except one. That one works just fine. Do they really think I am going to pay for this when others appear to be getting it for free????

My AOL desktop was shut down July 7, just like they said it would. I can still send mail and get new mail on AOL.Com. In the AOL FAQ's it said that would not happen; we would have access to any existing e-mails, but no new mail could be sent or received. I don't think THEY know what is going on. Two of my friends have still not received any notices about their AOL desktop being shut down and think I'm making this all up. That doesn't seem fair that they are shutting some people down and not others. I watched a You Tube Video of some guy calling AOL and asking some of these same questions. He called three times (or more) and got all different people. None of their answers were the same. So I think they are just fishing to see who will bite. What's funny, my husband and I never considered keeping AOL for a minute, yet my friend who is 75 years old and terrified of changes probably would pay to keep AOL. So they picked the wrong people to throw their bait out to.

A month ago, I started getting messages on AOL saying I would have to sign up for AOL Desktop Gold for $4.99.mo by July 7 or I would only have access to my old e-mails, I could not send or receive new ones. My neighbor never received any of these messages. She thinks it's spam. The only thing different is that she has Verizon on her cell phone and I don't. She has Comcast.net and I have ATT for internet. Does she qualify because of having Verizon on her cellphone? Also, AOL says that we will only be able to access old e-mails, yet I have read here and there that we can still send/receive with our current AOL e-mails by using mail.aol.com. What is the deal here? Are they just trying to see who will fall for paying for their stupid service? Or are they cutting people off in different phases? I already switched everything over to Gmail. Yes, it was a hassle, but AOL didn't work right with Windows 10 anyway. I'm sure that was intentional -- they will fix that problem once you pay them.

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