Phone call from "PalmCo" wanting to change my electricity supplier

[ron_newman]

I just got an unsolicited phone call from a company called "PalmCo", at 617-274-6669, trying to persuade me that their electric rates would be lower than NStar Eversource. The sales rep wanted me to go fetch my electric bill. Instead, I told him I wanted to look the company up on the Internet, and hung up.

If he calls me again, I'll ask him about the 88 negative reviews they got on Yelp. And the New Jersey Attorney General's lawsuit against them, alleging fraud. I don't see a single positive mention of them anywhere else on the Net. Avoid!

For what it's worth, Somerville is in this list of "The coolest neighborhoods in America"

[scott gunther]

But we already knew that ;)

http://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/coolest-neighborhoods-in-america-the-mission-wicker-park-and-highland-park-top-our-list

Oops: 3.20% fee to pay Somerville excise tax online? Yikes!

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

Correction: the fee is 3.20% of the car's value excise tax with a $3. minimum.

Guess I've never paid my Somerville excise tax on-line.
Went through the steps to do that just now and discovered right near the end (through an alert - thank you!) that the fee is $3 3.20% of the car's value excise tax, with a $3 minimum. That seems kind of high – has it been that for a while? The city does it through an enity name Kelly & Ryan Associates

I pay all my monthlies on-line and only RCN charges a fee – that's a $1 and I'm lazy but $3 seemed a bit much, so it was back to my "forever" stamps. .  .