Just Another Hang-Out: Because Unilateral Decisions Matter

[Sprung]

WOW! Sprung, you got a good deal! I have a cellphone,but I rarely use it. I got it for christmas,it's nice one though. If only I could figure it out.

What phone is it?

[Gypsy]

What pissed me off about Verizon is they kept telling me I could get an upgrade, and sent me links to look at phones. As soon as I was all paid in full on my bill, a requirement for an upgrade, everything changed...even the My Verizon app on my phone. Everything went to "upgrade on 8/8/12".



I figure they will piss me off eventually. As of now, I got $1300 worth of phones for $129.

Companies aren't trying unless they give you a huge discount. Are you locked-in to a contract of death?

[Iamerror]

It's called a rant phone. it's red, and it slides to access a keypad under the phone. I don't text, so I don't know why they got me one of those. but I like it. i got a cover for it that's cute.

[Slacker Magician]

What pissed me off about Verizon is they kept telling me I could get an upgrade, and sent me links to look at phones. As soon as I was all paid in full on my bill, a requirement for an upgrade, everything changed...even the My Verizon app on my phone. Everything went to "upgrade on 8/8/12".
I figure they will piss me off eventually. As of now, I got $1300 worth of phones for $129.

That's lame :\.

[Sprung]

Companies aren't trying unless they give you a huge discount. Are you locked-in to a contract of death?

Of course

At least I'm on a network that uses the term "unlimited" correctly...

The dude at Sprint went crazy over my Xperia Play. He had never seen one, and was asking all kinds of stuff about it. I was shocked when they offered $75 for it
Whichever one of you nutjobs told me it was worth a lot of money was right.

[Gypsy]

Verizon has really shitty data usage caps. Like...insanely shitty...

[Sprung]

It's called a rant phone. it's red, and it slides to access a keypad under the phone. I don't text, so I don't know why they got me one of those. but I like it. i got a cover for it that's cute.

I'm pretty sure that's the same phone one of my coworkers has. Seems like a nice feature phone

[Sprung]

That's lame :\.

I was PISSED

You don't even want to know how much money I wasted on Verizon today.
Makes me sick.

[Iamerror]

Phone companies, well all companies just care about money. Vonage isn't a good company. We just called them about their rates, and they hijacked our phone number, and we had to switch because they held our number hostage unless we signed with them. We refused, so we have a different number. The people at Vonage are jerks, don't contact them!

[Gypsy]

I was PISSED

You don't even want to know how much money I wasted on Verizon today.
Makes me sick.

Did you have to terminate your contract early?

[Sprung]

Verizon has really shitty data usage caps. Like...insanely shitty...

I never really used much data because I figured they would throttle me down, or some shit. I don't know how they can legally call it unlimited when they slap a 2GB limit on it.

[Gypsy]

I never really used much data because I figured they would throttle me down, or some shit. I don't know how they can legally call it unlimited when they slap a 2GB limit on it.

Legalese bullshit that's how.

[Sprung]

Phone companies, well all companies just care about money. Vonage isn't a good company. We just called them about their rates, and they hijacked our phone number, and we had to switch because they held our number hostage unless we signed with them. We refused, so we have a different number. The people at Vonage are jerks, don't contact them!

Wow. That seems...I dunno...illegal

I've heard good and bad about Vonage. I don't even have a home phone anymore, so I doubt I'll ever deal with them.

[Iamerror]

Sounds like the people at Verizon are jerks. Well I won't get phone service from them.

[Sprung]

Did you have to terminate your contract early?

Yep, and they can suck it.