Comments on: How Cell Phone companies are fleecing us? http://gigaom.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/ Sun, 19 May 2013 00:54:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: grace http://gigaom.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95896 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:21:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95896 I have a prepaid phone through virgin mobile. I had a credid card on file with them to charge every month to top up my account. Last week I called to cancel my card on file with them so that NO charges could be billed on my card. Well, they ended up charging my card any way and that has causeed my bank account ot be over drawn. Virgin mobile agreed to put back the money that they took out, but not pay for the over draft charges. Is there anyhting I can do about this? Is it legal to charge unauthorize use of my card when I clearly called a week prior to have this card removed? I did not owe them anything either.

]]> By: Erin Riley http://gigaom.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95890 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95890 JUST PCS – a CINGULAR wireless store in Spokane Washington, sold us phones that never worked right, could not fix them when we complained, billed us on the wrong plan, billed us for calls we never made, and refused to accept the phones when we tried to return them. Then, when we wanted to take them to small claims court, they refused to give us the name of their corporate agent so that we could serve them with notice of the court case. We found out the name of the corporate agent through the secretary of state, but when we tried to serve him, the manager of the store in Seattle told us that the named agent was not there and had never been there in person. JUST PCS was TERRIBLE to deal with, provided bad phones, bad customer service, and tried to hide and avoid service so we couldn’t sue them.

]]> By: Jean Frankowski http://gigaom.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95891 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95891 I signed a 2 year contract with an AT&T dealership. They provided me with a phone that was very annoying. It beeped regularly telling me it was in extended area, or roaming one block from my home. I thought this was normal until lately my voice messages were not coming through until 2 to 7 days later. When I mentioned this to friends and described what I had been going through for the past year they assured me this was not normal. I thought it may be a frequency problem. AT&T will not replace the phone for free because I am one year into my 2 year contract and because I didn’t purchase a warranty past one year it’s gonna cost me. They wanted to charge me service fees on top of the new phone and have me resign another 2 year contract in order to receive the lowest price. On top of that sign for additional fee for service extended warranty. I have decided to keep my money in my pocket, rough it out for the next year until the contract expires and then drop them all together and never do business with them again. Any suggestions on the best company to use?

]]> By: Roland Tanglao's Weblog http://gigaom.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95892 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95892 US Cell phone companies are fleecing customers by making them pay for number portability

(SOURCE: GigaOm: How Cell Phone companies are fleecing us? )- I am sure that when long overdue cellphone number portability comes to Canada, that Canadians will get fleeced too.

]]> By: Gizmodo http://gigaom.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95893 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95893 Cellphone companies using number portability to rip off subscribers

Despite having fought tooth and nail to prevent the imposition of number portability rules tooth and nail, that hasn’t prevented the cellphone carriers from exploiting the FCC’s new rules by using them as an excuse to rip off customers with all sorts o…

]]> By: Remaindered links weblog http://gigaom.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95894 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2003/10/29/how-cell-phone-companies-are-fleecing-us/#comment-95894 http://www.sixdifferentways.com/remainder/005354.php

Another reason I like T-mobile…

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The NYC Marathon was yesterday. I went out to cheer on my frind KT from work who was running it “one time only”. The scene was so amazing. over 35,000 people ran and over 2.5 million people watched. If…

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