notarep's Posts

Contracts are a bad idea to begin with since the average consumer has no idea what it's about anyway. All they really see is that new phone at the end of 2 years. Chances are if you told someone you paid full retail, they would flip out and ask why was your price so high. 

Leave it at home. But if you really need it, but if you don't need actual service, put it into airplane mode BEFORE you get on the plane to go to china. It will connect to a network as soon as your turn it on in china, and will tag your bill with roaming charges. You can suspend your service either online or by calling CS.

Believe it or not, there are users out there who use less than a gig per month on a smartphone. Remember, there is more to a smartphone than just the data function. Also, there are users who do use more than 75mb a month on a basic phone. Basic phones, cannot do spreadsheets, handle large contact lists, multitasking, etc. Sometimes I wish they would update the hardware of older phones like the krzr, enV, etc, and sell them again as basic phones.

AZSALUKI wrote: my bad. i had just read a post in one of these threads that stated that they saved $60 by going to radio shack to upgrade 2 lines. It'll show up on their next bill. Indirect dealers don't charge it at time of purchase, but vz puts it on the next bill. I bought my phone off of newegg, and sure enough i saw it on the next bill.

Data package has to be above a certain amount per month to receive the discount. In most cases, the 30 dollar plan does not qualify. Depends on the employer and verizon's contract, but usually you have to have a larger than 2gb package. Also, these days its difficult to get reliable information from any type of customer service. With your situation, its easy to confuse whether or not you would get it. Customer service offered you something that isn't in the agreement with your discount, and you complained about that. If you want the discount to apply towards the 30 dollar package, talk to your employer because they are the ones who negotiate the discounts.

Some just view it differently. I always believed that major corporations are only after your wallet and don't actually care about you. Its a bill, not an investment lol. But I digress, entitlement is everywhere.  I feel that customers get upset because they expect something for staying with a company for so long, but they were never promised anything to begin with. If customers would stop believing that how long they've been with a company actually makes a difference, there would be a lot less posts on this forum.