I finally have my Samsung Galaxy S 3!!! It's navy blue!
I had 11 months left on my 3 year contract with my telephone company and I have wanted to upgrade to a smart phone because my phone was so archaic. It didn't do anything other than phone in and out and text. There was no data plan so I couldn't do emails or browse the web. And it was so buggy. It would lock and was difficult to unlock. If you held the button too long it would either turn off or relock. And don't get me started on the phone echo when I was talking, or the fact that I didn't get my text messages for sometimes 3 days later because the phone didn't automatically delete messages and it would be tricked into thinking that the message box was full even if there were only 2 or 3 messages on the phone.
I've been calling the telephone company every single day for the last few weeks and speaking to different people at 2 different numbers, and it was always the same thing...basically, too bad, suck it up and live with your contract or pay us $180 to get out of it.
Which I didn't agree with because my cell phone is FREE because I bundle! They charge my bill $30.00 per month, and then credit that amount right back. So I'm not paying anything for my phone, and the phone company isn't losing any money on my phone because they technically aren't charging me anything because of the credit. So I was getting upset when they kept telling me I had to pay them $180 which they weren't going to be getting from me if I had kept the phone until the contract ran out.
This week I called on Monday and again on Wednesday. I spoke to my friend on Wednesday late afternoon about going out tonight, and told her my dilemma with my desire to upgrade to a smart phone, and that I was going to go to Roger's on Saturday and get a new phone number and a cell phone through them, let my telephone company phone expire (again, not costing me money), and cancel the phone altogether at the end of November this year.
She took down all of my information and called them. She called me an hour later and told me she got me out of the contract!!!!! I have no idea how she did it. I know she talked to a manager (I did too), and she kept telling them "give me a reason to say given all of the good cell phone plans out there.", and she threatened to cancel all services and go over to the cable company (I shrieked when she said that because I hate the cable company here!).
So it cost me $99 for the Samsung, $40 for connection and I have a 3 year plan.
She's still not happy. She tried to get me a better deal on bandwidth etc, and spent nearly an hour on the phone with the phone company supervisor. But got no where. However, she's going to call again tomorrow because she is upset that I had to pay $99 for the phone when the phone would have been FREE on December 31, 2012. She said that Tuesday was a holiday, and the deal was struck on Wednesday, so that is really only 1 day into January and she feels that I should get the phone for FREE and get a credit of $111.00 ($99 plus taxes).
I told her to not bother that I was ok paying the $99 but she has all of my information still and she is going to phone anyway. And I'll wager that she will probably get me a credit of $100! lol
Now I just have to wait for my new case. Funny thing is that my friend ordered 5 new cases today from eBay, and she showed me one of her favourites! Turns out is is the same one that I ordered only my case is clear and hers is white.
We went out for a steak dinner tonight. My thank you to her for getting me my smart phone. And she set it all up for me to. Now I can just fiddle around with it and figure out how to do things.
I have the coolest ring tone now too. An old fashioned telephone ring. I can't stand musical tones because I don't twig into the fact that it is a phone ringing. With an actual telephone ring I'll know it's me
I had 11 months left on my 3 year contract with my telephone company and I have wanted to upgrade to a smart phone because my phone was so archaic. It didn't do anything other than phone in and out and text. There was no data plan so I couldn't do emails or browse the web. And it was so buggy. It would lock and was difficult to unlock. If you held the button too long it would either turn off or relock. And don't get me started on the phone echo when I was talking, or the fact that I didn't get my text messages for sometimes 3 days later because the phone didn't automatically delete messages and it would be tricked into thinking that the message box was full even if there were only 2 or 3 messages on the phone.
I've been calling the telephone company every single day for the last few weeks and speaking to different people at 2 different numbers, and it was always the same thing...basically, too bad, suck it up and live with your contract or pay us $180 to get out of it.
Which I didn't agree with because my cell phone is FREE because I bundle! They charge my bill $30.00 per month, and then credit that amount right back. So I'm not paying anything for my phone, and the phone company isn't losing any money on my phone because they technically aren't charging me anything because of the credit. So I was getting upset when they kept telling me I had to pay them $180 which they weren't going to be getting from me if I had kept the phone until the contract ran out.
This week I called on Monday and again on Wednesday. I spoke to my friend on Wednesday late afternoon about going out tonight, and told her my dilemma with my desire to upgrade to a smart phone, and that I was going to go to Roger's on Saturday and get a new phone number and a cell phone through them, let my telephone company phone expire (again, not costing me money), and cancel the phone altogether at the end of November this year.
She took down all of my information and called them. She called me an hour later and told me she got me out of the contract!!!!! I have no idea how she did it. I know she talked to a manager (I did too), and she kept telling them "give me a reason to say given all of the good cell phone plans out there.", and she threatened to cancel all services and go over to the cable company (I shrieked when she said that because I hate the cable company here!).
So it cost me $99 for the Samsung, $40 for connection and I have a 3 year plan.
She's still not happy. She tried to get me a better deal on bandwidth etc, and spent nearly an hour on the phone with the phone company supervisor. But got no where. However, she's going to call again tomorrow because she is upset that I had to pay $99 for the phone when the phone would have been FREE on December 31, 2012. She said that Tuesday was a holiday, and the deal was struck on Wednesday, so that is really only 1 day into January and she feels that I should get the phone for FREE and get a credit of $111.00 ($99 plus taxes).
I told her to not bother that I was ok paying the $99 but she has all of my information still and she is going to phone anyway. And I'll wager that she will probably get me a credit of $100! lol
Now I just have to wait for my new case. Funny thing is that my friend ordered 5 new cases today from eBay, and she showed me one of her favourites! Turns out is is the same one that I ordered only my case is clear and hers is white.
We went out for a steak dinner tonight. My thank you to her for getting me my smart phone. And she set it all up for me to. Now I can just fiddle around with it and figure out how to do things.
I have the coolest ring tone now too. An old fashioned telephone ring. I can't stand musical tones because I don't twig into the fact that it is a phone ringing. With an actual telephone ring I'll know it's me
is the most coolest thing!..
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