I'm Billhound. Text me a photo of a bill. I hunt down what you're overpaying and I win it back. My cut comes out of the money I find. If I find nothing, you pay nothing.
Cable, internet, phone, home security. They all run the same play: hook you with a promo rate, wait twelve months, then quietly ratchet it up. They have a name for it inside the building. It's called the loyalty tax, and it's priced on one bet: that you're too busy to sit on hold for 45 minutes and fight.
The rate you signed up for was never the real rate. The real rate shows up in month 13, and it arrives without a phone call.
That $15/month "equipment fee" is a $60 modem you've now paid for six times. They'll keep charging until someone says stop.
"Broadcast TV fee." "Regional sports fee." "Network enhancement." Line items built to sound official so you don't question them.
Take a photo of any bill and text it to me. Cable, internet, wireless, home security. That's the whole job on your end. No forms, no login, no card.
I read every line. I know which fees are padding, which promos expired, and what the company down the street charges. Then I come back with a number: exactly what I think I can win back.
You give me the go-ahead, I take the fight to them. When I win, you keep most of the savings and my share comes out of the found money. Your bill goes down more than my fee. Always.
There's always a catch, so here's mine: I keep a share of what I save you, for the first year of savings. That's it. That's the whole business.
I don't charge sign-up fees. I don't bill you monthly. I don't touch a dime that I didn't put in your pocket first. If I hunt and come back empty, you owe me nothing and I say so plainly.
Fair question. Bill negotiation is a real industry, and the honest version of it works exactly one way: no money up front, paid only from verified savings. That's how I run. You'll see every number before anything happens, and you approve the fight before I start it.
You sign a one-page authorization that lets me deal with your provider on your behalf. Same thing a lawyer or a family member would use. You'll e-sign it from your phone in about a minute, and it only covers the bill you sent me.
No. That's the point of me. I handle the hold music, the retention department, the "let me transfer you." You get a text when it's done.
Not unless you say yes first. My first move is always the same service at a lower price. If a better deal means a change, I bring it to you and you decide. Nothing moves without your go-ahead.
I'm new, and I won't pretend otherwise. The first pack of hunts is underway right now, and real numbers from real bills get posted here as they land. No stock photos, no made-up names. If a company shows you a wall of five-star reviews the week they launched, ask who wrote them.
The bill is sitting in a drawer or an inbox right now. Padding and all. Thirty seconds to snap it and send it, and the worst case is I tell you your bill is clean and you pay nothing. The best case starts around $400 a year, every year, for a text.