Couple shocked by multi-million dollar phone bill

There are a lot of stories out there about ridiculously expensive phone bills, but one couple in Oregon have been dinged with charges that would set them back more than two million dollars.

The exact charge: $2,156,593.64 USD or $2,876,248.94 CAD, to be precise.

Ken Slusher, of Damascus, Oregon, and his girlfriend opened new plans with Verizon in November, but cancelled their accounts a month later when they were being over-billed for services, according to KPTV Fox 12 Oregon.

Slusher told Fox News despite only racking up around $120 in charges on their first bill, the bottom line read $698 plus a $451 carryover.

Their next bill, just $9.

“The number of errors and the comedy of which they happened is astounding to me,” he told the station.

A Verizon spokesperson told ABC News the company has apologized to the couple saying the balance was the result of a ‘programming error’.

The couple are reportedly looking to close on a new house next Monday, but, if the collections agencies don’t back off by then, Slusher said his mortgage lender won’t sign off.

“If I don’t get this straightened out in the next 24 hours, I can almost guarantee I’ll lose this house,” he told Fox.

This isn’t the first time a phone company has issued a statement that boggles the mind.

A woman in France reportedly received a charge of more than 17-and-a-half quadrillion dollars back in 2012 when she tried to cancel her contract before it had expired, according to the French newspaper Sud-Ouest.

Slusher’s story would be funny if it didn’t come at the cost of tanking his credit and dashing his hopes of owning a dream home.

I know I’ll be paying my phone bill without any complaints from now on.