Only way I have ever heard of is if you can find someone else to take the line Verizon will transfer and if I remember rightly you will no longer be responsible. There are some websites which can help you look, celltradeusa.com is one if I am remembering the name correctly.
on Thursday 09/13/2007 Christopher Range([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote: > > > We have talked over cell phone companies before and I have always been > > happy with mine up until yesterday. > > > > I have a family plan with Verizon, which I have had a few years. > > Earlier this year I upgraded both my wife's and mine cell phones, > > which required a new two year contract. We also have two other phones > > part of this family plan. > > > > Over the past few months my one son has monopolized the plan and > > caused me to pay overages, so I put it to him, either shape up or get > > your own plan. He and his friend did just that. (he is in college) > > So now I have this extra phone and line I do not need. I called > > Verizon and they want to charge me $175.00 to drop this line. His line > > is a secondary line on my plan and not one I had purchased a phone on > > (He supplied his own phone). Turns out they want $175 for each line > > if I wanted to cancel with them. (I talked with the local outfit who > > I signed up with and the little girl there was awfully snooty about it.) > > > > Anyone know any tricks or special ways to get around this? I do not > > want to keep an extra line for the next year and a half, neither do I > > want to spend $175. to cancel a line that is not going to be used. I > > am pretty mad at them right now, and they will no longer get > > recommendations from me to any local people. > > > > Thanks. > > Stewart > > Rev. Stewart A. Marshall > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Prince of Peace > > Ozark, AL SL 82 > > Stewart, While I only got a Verizon cell plan a couple of months ago, I > remember having to go through a situation similar to yours, with anothe > company. They wanted to penalize my (ex)fiance n' I for leaving the > company when, we had already had the plan two years which is what the > original agreement stated. I told them, I was prepared to take them to > court for lying on the original agreement. That is when they backed > down and, did not charge my (ex)fiance n' I for switching. > > Christopher > > > ************************************************************************ > * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ************************************************************************ > * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ > * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml > * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived > ************************************************************************ -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
