Wowzer. Did they at least give back the $3500 charge?
Scandals & Animals wrote:
> Hah! Wait til they do you like they did me. They switched me off my $19.95
> plan without my knowledge or consent and put me on a plan allowing me only
> 5mb/mo. Imagine my reaction when I got a bill for over $3500 for data!
> When I demanded to be switched back to the plan I was on, she said she
> couldn't because that $19.95 unlimited plan didn't exist any more. I
> planned to cancel my service without paying the cancellation fee because
> they made a substantial change to my service, but money is tight right now
> and I can't afford another phone, so it has to wait.
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> Scientists report creating a sheep that is 15% human. Why shouldn't they?
> The public fool system has created humans that are 85% sheep.
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> ...... Original Message .......
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 08:22:11 -0400 J Messeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I was about to upgrade my 650 to a 680. After much discussion,
>> contemplation, and browsing the boards, that seemed the way to go.
>> So I stopped at the Cingular store, where the guy said if I'd bring
>> him a print of the online deal, including any mail-in rebates, he'd give
>> me all the rebates up front. That clinched it. On the Cingular site, I'm
>> eligible for an upgrade. I went through the entire ordering process,
>> stopping only at the final button to place the order. The list said I'd
>> get a $150 instant rebate, a $100 mail-in rebate, and use my existing plan.
>> Went back to the store. Turns out there's no way around the mail-in
>> requirement. And BTW, the $100 mail-in requires me to increase my data
>> plan by $20 a month. Somehow, Cingular gave me a $19 plan (which has
>> unlimited data and 200 text messages and works really well for me) but
>> Treos and Blackberries have to be on the $39 data plan to qualify for
>> the $100 rebate.
>> So for an additional $20 a month, I can have a $100 rebate. In five
>> months, they've got their money back. Not exactly a good deal for me.
>> The salesman agreed.
>> I called Cingular. The nice lady agree on the requirement, about
>> which she also agreed I would have found out when I ordered the phone
>> and two weeks later got the rebate form in the mail. She also agreed
>> that the system basically lied when it said I'd be on my existing plan,
>> and get the $100 mail-in rebate.
>> Here's the problem with rebates: we pay taxes on $100 we're not
>> really spending (since we will get it back), the company get's to claim
>> the $300 sale instead of only a $200 sale, then claims the loss when
>> they give back the $100.
>> And in five months, it has recovered in fees for service I neither
>> wanted nor needed, the money it "lost" by giving me the purchase rebate.
>> And I'm left with the remaining 19 months of a two-year contract at $20
>> more than I needed or wanted.
>> I wish there were a way to roll back the whole rebate scam. We The
>> People jump on rebates like they're a discount, when all they are is a
>> way for the state (taxes) and banks (finance fees on the credit cards)
>> to make money on what we, in the end, are not spending.
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>> BTW, the lady who agreed Cingular was lying by appearing to say I
>> could keep my existing service and get the $100 rebate, then told me the
>> difference between the $39 plan and the $19 plan was the less expensive
>> one would go only to MEDIA web sites, where I could buy ringtones and do
>> a few other minor things.
>> Another lie, at least so far. I have been able to go anywhere I want
>> on the browser. I haven't found a site yet I can't access. Of course, I
>> don't spend a lot of time browsing from the Treo. My data mostly is used
>> for email and IM.
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/The erasure of a human subspecies is largely painless -- to us -- if we
know little enough about it. A dead Chinaman is of little import to us
whose awareness of things Chinese is bounded by an occasional dish of
chow mein. We grieve only for what we know./
A Sand County Almanac, /Aldo Leopold, July 1949/
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