So in about 14 years six months, they'll have their $3500.
Unless you switch to T-Mobile before then.
Scandals & Animals wrote:
> After about two months of fighting with them and forcing me onto the $40
> plan.
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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 13:21:34 -0400 J Messeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Wowzer. Did they at least give back the $3500 charge?
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>> Scandals & Animals wrote:
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>>> Hah! Wait til they do you like they did me. They switched me off my
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> $19.95
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>>> plan without my knowledge or consent and put me on a plan allowing me
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> only
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>>> 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
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>>> 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]>
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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.
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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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/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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