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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Tango on December 08, 2007, 08:59:41 AM
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throwing your cell phone in the toilet?????
I do. I'm fighting Alltell over my last 2 bills. Last month was $388 and this month $311. However since I've had this service, past 3 years, my monthly bill has always been $52 a month.
They're saying that sometimes around the holidays people use thier cell phones more often and don't realize how many minutes they are using. She said maybe someone in my family was using it more and I said I'M the only one using it.
Guess I'm in for a long fight.
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Ask for itemization.
...and be ready to discover that yeah, maybe you are using more minutes than you though. They add up FAST. I had a few bills like that, switched to a plan with more minutes for maybe $10 extra a month and the bills dropped from $350 to $120 (we have a bunch of phones on the plan).
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I think cell phones are both the best and worst things ever. I've never chucked mine into the toilet, Tango. One of them did end up in a pool though.
But..... when any of my kids go bike riding (they're still pretty young), they have to take a cell phone ~ which has been so very, very, very wonderful. :)
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The thing is I have 500 anytime minutes, which after they are gone I pay for the minutes used. HOWEVER I have unlimited nights and weekends and free calling in the 3 parishes [Caddo, Bossier, & Webster]. ALL my frineds and relatives live in those parishes, so the ONLY way I could have gone over is calling outside of the area and the only time I do that is calling our office in Monroe. Rarely even talk to them.
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Back when I had AT&T, they screwed mine up BAD.
Got a bill for $5200
Naturally they said it was my fault, but they later admitted they screwed up and took the charges off.
Two months later, the exact same thing happened
They suck
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... Snickers at Tango.....:lol
it's Peaches fault.. :(
** Runs
( jk bud)
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Only time I'm on the phone with Peaches is from 8-10 PM at night. When I'm on unlimited minutes time.
How it can go from $52.00 a month for the past couple of years to over $300 is beyond me. I'm waiting for the transcript of my calls to come in and see.
They screwed up somewhere.
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My cell phone is $20 prepaid and expires in 3 months if not used; we’ve never had to refill in less than 3 months. So, we basically pay $80 a year, but don’t use it often. We don’t even tell anyone what our cell number is so the only calls received are from home/each other.
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I have a young friend who is a tattoo artist that is hard to have a conversation with due to the cell either ringing or blipping for incoming text.
I`d hate to pay his cell phone bill.
One thing that I did get a kick out of is that he assigns different ring tones for different people.
For his latest squeeze he has "So Hot" assigned. :D
I use mine maybe twice a week at most. The world seems addicted to the little pesky noise makers.
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I havent had a call on my cell phone for the past 2 weeks.
Im unloved :cry
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I hate ALLTEL/ and windstream .............. that being said they could have some how switched your plan or in the worst case senerio someone cloned your phone!
there were devices (i dont know if they still work with the new tech.) that could pick up the data/info of your cell signature (if you drove by, passed by went near) and then that could be zapped into a phone and they could make calls that would register as yours.
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I pay $14.25 a month for my Nextel. I get unlimited 2-way and Internet. 2,500 weekend/night mins, 550 anytime minutes and free long distance and incoming calls.
I love mine.
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Im with metropcs, 50$ monthly, unlimited local, long distance, internet............
and no contract :)
Tango your celll contract could expired and if you not pick another plan and sign agreement they will charge you as in month to month highest rates
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I still have 9 months left on my contract. However this has me so PO'd I'm gonna drop them regardless of what they say. The service has gone to crap around here. Used to be able to use my phone anywhere in my house. Now I have to sit leaning back in my chair in the living room , otherwise the call gets dropped.
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Holy.
Up in this part of the world, I'm using US Cellular on a unlimited plan that runs me $61 a month. They've been great.
I like flat rate :)
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I am on a family plan with my parents with cingualr (or whatever it is now), so we get those lovely roll over minutes. we have their cheapest plan but still don't use all the minuters , so those have piled up over the years. Now we are at whatever the maximum number of rollover minutes is. My phone only gets a signal on hills in this darn state though.
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Originally posted by C(Sea)Bass
I am on a family plan with my parents with cingualr (or whatever it is now), so we get those lovely roll over minutes. we have their cheapest plan but still don't use all the minuters , so those have piled up over the years. Now we are at whatever the maximum number of rollover minutes is. My phone only gets a signal on hills in this darn state though.
Cingular uses Unicel's network. There's a reason Unicel users call them UniH e l l
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Last year my wife bought me a tracfone with 250 prepaid minutes and a year to use them. The year expired with 216 minutes left on the phone ... guess I'm just addicted ... ;)
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I'm on Cingular/ATT 400 anytime, free nights and weekends with rollover minutes, 39.99 a month. I have 4000+ rollover minutes in the bank.
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2 words.
Pre paid.
Well that's actually one word and a prefix but you get the idea.
I spend about $30/month, no worries, no dramas and no major bill stuff ups.
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When I went to the iPhone, I had to switch to AT&T. I was on Sprint for 6 years or so. Sprint's nights start at 7pm, AT&T's start at 9pm. You can guess the tight spot I found myself in in the first month. :O
Other than that, I haven't had any troubles.
800 Family minutes (2 Phones)
Free Nights and Weekends
Free Mobile to Mobile
Unlimited Text Messages (to/from anyone)
Unlimited Data Plan for iPhone
120 bucks a month.
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The biggest scam is 'text messages'---if they aren't 'allowed' in your contract, you get nailed up to 50 cents each
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Originally posted by bj229r
The biggest scam is 'text messages'---if they aren't 'allowed' in your contract, you get nailed up to 50 cents each
Yeah, and if some spamming tard gets access to your #, you're screwed. I fought with Verizon on this.
They couldn't trace the source either...
How the *** can you allow someone access to my #, recognize that I got a text message, charge me for it, but you can't block the sender?! Someone in your organization needs to be fired.
I had a similar problem with too much $$$ on my electric bill 3 months in a row with PG&E, so it's not uncommon. Went from $80 to like $2500!
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I only have a mobile phone from T-Mobile, no land line. $29.99/mo for 300 anytime and unlimited weekends. For as much as I care to use the phone, this is basically unlimited.
While in college, I worked in a T-Mobile call center for almost 2 years (yeah, that sucked), and the "I COULDN'T HAVE USED THAT MANY MINUTES!!!" was always my favorite type of call.
The one call in particular that stands out is when a mother called about text message charges on her bill that she didn't expect. They were sent/received on her daughter's phone, and she had me list the times that the messages happened. I listed off several date/time ranges, most of which were during the week when her daughter would be in school, to which she replied that this was impossible because it was against school rules for her daughter to be using her mobile phone in class. It took a lot of self control to not let a laugh slip out after hearing that one. After explaining that the phone's serial # was recorded with each text message sent, and the few that I checked did match her daughter's phone, she decided she'd talk with her daughter and call back later. :)