What you have to pay is completely determined by what state you live in.  About half (like mine) charge $10 each, a couple have some weird amount, the rest (like yours) are free.
 
TransUnion and Experian (and, hopefully, EquiFuxed) are sending me confirmations through the post office.

bitflipper
This sums up the situation in an entertaining way. Are we angry yet?
 

Nice job by John Oliver. I especially liked the part near the end where he talks of the three companies making a lot of money selling this information to banks. His analogy with KFC (fried chicken enterprise) being we aren't the guy buying the bucket of chicken. Rather, we are the chickens in the bucket. Sad, but with big money involved this fiasco may be forgotten before long except by the profiteers in the equation.

craigb
What you have to pay is completely determined by what state you live in.  About half (like mine) charge $10 each, a couple have some weird amount, the rest (like yours) are free.

I believe what you say Craig. It just seems so unfair how some states have to pay, others don't. More insanity.

UPDATE: the sleazy move by Equifax to force their victims to give up their right to sue was later rescinded. Not because Equifax suddenly grew a conscience, but because the Consumer Protection Bureau has a rule against that practice. You'll be happy to hear that our congress quietly struck down that rule last night, literally in the dead of night.

bitflipper
UPDATE: the sleazy move by Equifax to force their victims to give up their right to sue was later rescinded. Not because Equifax suddenly grew a conscience, but because the Consumer Protection Bureau has a rule against that practice. You'll be happy to hear that our congress quietly struck down that rule last night, literally in the dead of night.

The opposite of pro is con so, by extension, the opposite of progress must be...

bitflipper
UPDATE: the sleazy move by Equifax to force their victims to give up their right to sue was later rescinded. Not because Equifax suddenly grew a conscience, but because the Consumer Protection Bureau has a rule against that practice. You'll be happy to hear that our congress quietly struck down that rule last night, literally in the dead of night.

Yes and I fired off a terse email to my Senator Cornyn so he could promptly delete it as unread.
 
"Of the corporation, by the corporation, for the corporation!"

OK, we can rest easy now...the Equifax debacle will now be investigated by an ex-Equifax employee.

Money people look after their own.