By Gabby Diaz
Feb 13, 2021
Now this is pretty funny. Aaron Epstein has been a AT&T customer since 1960. And his internet service has not been keeping up with his needs. So he decided to place two ads in The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 3 to get out his frustrations. Oh and did I mention this ad cost him $10,000.
Take a look below via KRON.
Man, 90, Takes Out $10,000 WSJ Ad To Complain About AT&T Internet Speed
On 2/15/21 at 10:34 AM EST
Aaron Epstein took out the quarter-page ads in
The Wall Street Journalout of frustration that AT&T had not provided anything faster than 3 Mbps to his home in January 2021. I kept calling AT&T, he told KTLA last Thursday, asking the company, When are you going to give us a faster speed? They said, It s coming, it s coming. But what really made me angry was they started putting ads in the paper and sending emails and putting ads on the internet [saying], Try our faster speed.
Aaron Epstein has been an AT&T customer for more than 60 years
Hollywood resident Aaron M. Epstein had been complaining about his slow internet service for years.
Despite hours on the phone to customer services and promises that action would be taken, the 90-year-old said any attempt at streaming a film on Netflix was “like watching a slideshow.”
With frustrations at boiling point and all traditional avenues seemingly exhausted, the AT&T customer of more than 60 years took drastic action - paying $10,000 for an advert in the Wall Street Journal.
Titled, Open Letter to Mr. John T. Stankey CEO AT&T, Epstein hoped to catch the eye of the company’s directors and financial backers.