>Then I got into the US and got wrongly billed several times. Of course, each time I called to complain, and they said they will... not cancel the invoice. They will credit my account(!). Huh? It would look as if I paid it, which I didn't, actually I refused to pay. Besides, there would be no record of my payment anywhere. They were just inventing money.
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>I'd bet an american beer that they would be able to explain the logic of this, if proper coercion was applied.

And I believed you went to our continent to escape such coercion and embrace less chemical brews...