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CodedChaos

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Up Yours Verizon - 2007/09/20 01:07 Originally posted at: http://www.codedchaos.com/time-for-a-rant/

Up yours Verizon.

Okay, so I have a Nokia 6315i with Verizon. This Nokia is a VCast Music phone, yet it lacks half its @#$*ing software, which is what I thought from the start.

Speaking of the start. I first went to my local VW store and picked up the music essentials kit for the rapingly high price of $25 It didn’t detect my phone. So then I went to using a card reader with my MiniSD card (the memory the nokia uses) I could get songs on the phone, but there was no way to play them, if you hold down the play button on the front of the phone, it flashes something wit the word Playlist for a second then goes back to my outer screen background, the time, and VERIZON WIRELESS. So I go to the VW store again, and I’m told that the phone, although all of the site was said to use MP3s actually uses WMAs. With some doubt I went home and tried the VCast Music Software on my PC again, and again it didn’t detect the phone. So I call the dreaded 800 number, work my way through the automated menus, state my problem, and then I proceed to be transfered to an out-sourced technical support rep (which I hate.) He is utterly useless and basically repeats my problem to me, then has me running around in circles for about an hour. Finally, he tells me I should go to my local VW store and see their technician to get my phone flashed (even though right now it’s the right software version, for some reason it’s missing stuff.) So he gives me the number for my local VW store (I’ve been there I think.. 2 times now?) So I call them to make sure the tech is still there and hasn’t left for the day; turns out, they don’t have a tech anymore at that location and the nearest tech is 45 minutes away in the wonderful city of Memphis (#^%$#^%$&#%#*#$^#($^&#%$@!!!!) So here’s where I stand: I have a phone that’s missing half the software that it should have, and I have to drive for about an hour just to get something fixed, that shouldn’t be #%#ing broken in the first place!

In conclusion, Verizon sucks, I’d rather be with the Blue Death Star (for those of you that lack basic sense, that’s AT&T.)

For the moment, /rant CodedChaos.com

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Doody

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Re:Up Yours Verizon - 2007/09/20 01:51 switch to sprint. I have never had any problems at all.

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CodedChaos

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Re:Up Yours Verizon - 2007/09/20 05:34 Doody wrote:
switch to sprint. I have never had any problems at all.

Contract =/

Anyone have any loop holes to break contracts without the fees? CodedChaos.com

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Doody

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Re:Up Yours Verizon - 2007/09/20 05:56 I have heard that if you call in to complain about service a certain number of times, they will cancel you.

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Re:Up Yours Verizon - 2007/09/21 02:37 here Ya go
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"1. Take advantage of your local lemon law. Get the worst phone you can find your provider offering, one that has lots of known problems. Complain three times, call it a lemon, and then get yourself free.

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2. Roam, roam free with the wind. If you have free roaming, your provider still pays for that, ya know? Set your cellphone to Only Roam, and your provider must pay for every roaming charge on every call. If that doesn't work with your phone or service, go to a place where roaming charges would apply, and make lots of long phone calls to people who talk a lot. Then you can drop off the key, Lee.

3. Say you're moving off the face of the earth (or almost). Tell your provider you're moving to some strange town such as in the wilderness of Alaska, where there is no cell phone service. They'll have to dump you. No need to be coy, Roy."

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CodedChaos

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Re:Up Yours Verizon - 2007/09/21 02:52 I like the other ones from the list

# No contract is enforceable on a minor.

# If you have a high tolerance for hassle, call your carrier's customer service number get the name of the representative and ask them to add a note to your account that states the reason you want to cancel, then tell them you heard that it cost almost $20.00 each time you call customer service. Your early termination fee is 200 and you are going to call 20 times so it will cost them double to keep you as a customer as it will to let you out. Ask for a manager each time. Expect to call ten times before this works. Call when you are on a long drive or have free time. Beware however, with T-Mobile, they may call this harassment, and may say they are going to contact their legal department and still make you pay the termination fee. Call their bluff and say you will call your legal department in return.

I'm 16 ^.^

I can handle annoying them on customer service calls.

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