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- 12-29-2004, 04:09 PM #1Debbie SmytheGuest
Sir/Madame,
How did you get a cell phone, a regular cell phone account, without a
credit card? Did a parent or employer or friend use their credit card
for you? Have you heard anyone else's misery with CINGULAR Take Charge
****ing them over? The catch is, they try to catch little financial
wimps like me with no credit by promoting this "Use your Visa debit
card or your checking account" and pay by the month, $49.99, for 400
minutes at 12.5 cents per minute [saving you one penny more than buying
a prepaid card of $50 from a competitor], PLUS, free nights after 9pm
and FREE WEEKENDS.
Well, i am paying up the ass and through the nose for nights after 9pm
and weekends, they deduct those minutes too, so my 50 bucks went down
the tube pretty ****ing fast. I have called their customer service
about 25 times [nearly 20 hours of their **** on the phone] and they
are trained to say that their computers show that i am NOT being billed
for the nightly nor weekend calls, which is complete rubbish. I would
be better off with just a $25 inserted prepaid chip every 4 or 5 weeks
from a Home Depot carrier or the like and be careful with each call,
making no chatty calls to friends or relatives at any time, just
practical and necessary communications. I have asked myself, am i the
only one whose Take Charge account with Cingular was set up in this
****ed up fashion on activation date, by a clumsy clerk, or is nearly
all or every customer of Take Charge with Cingular being screwed like
this? If they are, why is there no national revolt of dissed
customers? Is this the way all the misdeeds of USA are being managed,
by handlers who know the public is sheepish and defenseless?
Should I kill my Cingular Take Charge account and then immediately sign
up for a new one to see if it is only me, and/or a few others, who have
been gulled and conned in this way?
Debbie
› See More: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
- 12-30-2004, 07:27 AM #2PascasitoGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
[Snip Debbie's rant about C;ngular]
I just fired C;ngular. I had the world's worst plan and anything to
improve would have cost more. Nothing made sense.
Got a second line from T-Mobi!e from spousal unit. Much better deal.
I think you would be better off with a prepaid card.
Pascasito
Look for fewer options as cell companies merge
- 12-30-2004, 07:49 AM #3Jack ZwickGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
In article <[email protected]>,
"Pascasito" <[email protected]> wrote:
> [Snip Debbie's rant about C;ngular]
>
> I just fired C;ngular. I had the world's worst plan and anything to
> improve would have cost more. Nothing made sense.
If you had the world's worst plan, why did you sign up for it in the
first place??
>
> Got a second line from T-Mobi!e from spousal unit. Much better deal.
> I think you would be better off with a prepaid card.
> Pascasito
> Look for fewer options as cell companies merge
- 12-30-2004, 08:35 AM #4sparkyGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
"Debbie Smythe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sir/Madame,
>
> How did you get a cell phone, a regular cell phone account, without a
> credit card? Did a parent or employer or friend use their credit card
> for you? Have you heard anyone else's misery with CINGULAR Take Charge
> ****ing them over? The catch is, they try to catch little financial
> wimps like me with no credit by promoting this "Use your Visa debit
> card or your checking account" and pay by the month, $49.99, for 400
> minutes at 12.5 cents per minute [saving you one penny more than buying
> a prepaid card of $50 from a competitor], PLUS, free nights after 9pm
> and FREE WEEKENDS.
>
> Well, i am paying up the ass and through the nose for nights after 9pm
> and weekends, they deduct those minutes too, so my 50 bucks went down
> the tube pretty ****ing fast. I have called their customer service
> about 25 times [nearly 20 hours of their **** on the phone] and they
> are trained to say that their computers show that i am NOT being billed
> for the nightly nor weekend calls, which is complete rubbish. I would
> be better off with just a $25 inserted prepaid chip every 4 or 5 weeks
> from a Home Depot carrier or the like and be careful with each call,
> making no chatty calls to friends or relatives at any time, just
> practical and necessary communications. I have asked myself, am i the
> only one whose Take Charge account with Cingular was set up in this
> ****ed up fashion on activation date, by a clumsy clerk, or is nearly
> all or every customer of Take Charge with Cingular being screwed like
> this? If they are, why is there no national revolt of dissed
> customers? Is this the way all the misdeeds of USA are being managed,
> by handlers who know the public is sheepish and defenseless?
>
> Should I kill my Cingular Take Charge account and then immediately sign
> up for a new one to see if it is only me, and/or a few others, who have
> been gulled and conned in this way?
>
> Debbie
>
If you do not have a credit card then you are better off with a prepaid
card.
The next question is, Do you really need a cell phone? Many people think
they
do but if they really took a deep look they would find it is only a
convenience
not a necesity.
- 12-30-2004, 10:12 AM #5Joan F \(MI\)Guest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
You mean I can only have things which are necessities? Do I have to give up
my dishwasher? my TV? my microwave?
In news:[email protected],
sparky <[email protected]> stated
| If you do not have a credit card then you are better off with a
| prepaid card.
| The next question is, Do you really need a cell phone? Many people
| think they
| do but if they really took a deep look they would find it is only a
| convenience
| not a necesity.
- 12-30-2004, 12:00 PM #6Debbie SmytheGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
Pascasito wrote:
> [Snip Debbie's rant about C;ngular] THAT IS NOT MY POSTING
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! --debbie
>
> I just fired C;ngular. I had the world's worst plan and anything to
> improve would have cost more. Nothing made sense.
-------------------
You read somebody else's "rant". Here is my gracious posting again
below under my new posting for all you boys ... and yes, i am blonde, a
complete and real blonde, and no longer a teenager who watches Buffy
the vampire.
CINGULAR has disappointed me even more than CNN [24 hour coverage, 7
days a week of a three second tourist video recording of the tsunami's
affect on one tourist hotel-- the 9.0 Sumatra Quake caused by those
low frequency elf microwave bursts coming out of Montauk L.I. and
Gakona Alaska, and no other news coverage much at all ! -- and, Fox TV
[the testosterone-saturated O'Reilly clones only ***** ***** *****,
even more than me on my period].
I learned more about the Quake and the following hemispheric floods and
the knocking off of its axis of the Earth's rotation caused by
"something" they do not understand which triggered the quake, in 25
minutes only, from the French "Journal" [and I saw visual coverage on
French Journal of the destruction and suffering in Iraq too, of the
Iraqi civilians and our 40,000 horribly disabled and disfigured
soldiers over there and in German hospitals and in our Veterans
hospitals here-- than in one week of surfing through all the American
cable media channels. I learned stuff about Europe too, and more from
them about our nation than i can find here on cable. The BBC seems to
be censored here, it is very different from BBC2 and BBC3 in London. I
don' t trust what they call BBC here, anyway it is almost as bad as the
American news.
Why don't we see news coverage inside the VA hospitals? Also, us girls
should get together over issues, and i wanna meet many of the wives of
the reservists over there, or at least see them speak their minds on TV
news, and get their point of view on military medical insurance issues
and crippled and ruined husbands who come home barely alive. What are
their views? What help has Washington and the Congress given them with
their kids and food and clothing and health care while their spouses
are over there, and the tragedy of many returned?
I hate cell phones more than flies around **** [like some Usenet
compulsed people who must really work for the government or for the
telecoms -- those who buzz around everywhere at all hours worse than
flies and have nothing to say but a short teeny weeney babble of
offensive dinkleberries -- does a job like that pay better than retail
clerk work in the mall or a call center?] ... the cell phone for me is
because I cannot get a landline in my room in my group house and I am
trying to get a job in this IMPOSSIBLE job market [i just graduated
from college a little while ago] and i am too pretty and too afraid to
go and fight in Iraq, which most of my guy friends did when WalMart
would not hire them.
Whichever of you said "buy prepaid time" ... I think i will. Thanks.
The customer care people for the Take Care offer of Cingular are mostly
temps and afraid of losing the few no benefits hours they are earning
through their temp agencies, and they hardly know diddly, and they will
not tell you to your face they received no training to answer many
questions, only to say after being coached by a whispering supervisor
"We will have a manager call you after a complete investigation" which
never happens and they never call back, or, they say "our computers
show you have been enjoying the free nights and weekend minutes". KISS
MY PUBES.
Those kind of remarks are more worthless than a used disposable tampon.
Cingular Take Care better ****ing take care of all the outraged
customers who do not like being grabbed and doggie ****ed from behind
by a lying an cheatin bunch of Halliburton and Wackenhut like pimps and
dogs who think they are so oh oh so clever to promise free nights after
9pm and free weekends, but all they are offering like a pimp is an
expensive Prepaid card of $50 plus federal taxes that bring it over
$56.00, meaning 16 cents per minute [and they charge you twice for
listening to your voice mails [about 30 cents to check yur messages
with the "voice mail forwarding" charge] ... AND NOT ONE FREE MINUTE,
NOT EVEN TWO on the weekends or after 9pm. Let me state that again for
the usenet flies, NO FREE MINUTES.
They are at Cingular, as Burl Ives says in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," --
mendacious!!
When the managers of Take Charge Cingular die, they will live a life of
eternity strung up by their genitals, male and female, by thin piano
wire, upside down, for all time and they will envy the people roasting
to death.
-------------
Sir/Madame,
How did you get a cell phone, a regular cell phone account, without a
credit card? Did a parent or employer or friend use their credit card
for you? Have you heard anyone else's misery with CINGULAR Take Charge
****ing them over? The catch is, they try to catch little financial
wimps like me with no credit by promoting this "Use your Visa debit
card or your checking account" and pay by the month, $49.99, for 400
minutes at 12.5 cents per minute [saving you one penny more than buying
a prepaid card of $50 from a competitor], PLUS, free nights after 9pm
and FREE WEEKENDS.
Well, i am paying up the ass and through the nose for nights after 9pm
and weekends, they deduct those minutes too, so my 50 bucks went down
the tube pretty ****ing fast. I have called their customer service
about 25 times [nearly 20 hours of their **** on the phone] and they
are trained to say that their computers show that i am NOT being billed
for the nightly nor weekend calls, which is complete rubbish. I would
be better off with just a $25 inserted prepaid chip every 4 or 5 weeks
from a Home Depot carrier or the like and be careful with each call,
making no chatty calls to friends or relatives at any time, just
practical and necessary communications. I have asked myself, am i the
only one whose Take Charge account with Cingular was set up in this
****ed up fashion on activation date, by a clumsy clerk, or is nearly
all or every customer of Take Charge with Cingular being screwed like
this? If they are, why is there no national revolt of dissed
customers? Is this the way all the misdeeds of USA are being managed,
by handlers who know the public is sheepish and defenseless?
Should I kill my Cingular Take Charge account and then immediately sign
up for a new one to see if it is only me, and/or a few others, who have
been gulled and conned in this way?
Debbie
>
> Got a second line from T-Mobi!e from spousal unit. Much better deal.
> I think you would be better off with a prepaid card.
> Pascasito
> Look for fewer options as cell companies merge
Pascasito wrote:
> [Snip Debbie's rant about C;ngular]
>
> I just fired C;ngular. I had the world's worst plan and anything to
> improve would have cost more. Nothing made sense.
>
> Got a second line from T-Mobi!e from spousal unit. Much better deal.
> I think you would be better off with a prepaid card.
> Pascasito
> Look for fewer options as cell companies merge
- 12-30-2004, 01:17 PM #7Jack ZwickGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
In article <[email protected]>,
"Debbie Smythe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I learned more about the Quake and the following hemispheric floods and
> the knocking off of its axis of the Earth's rotation caused by
> "something" they do not understand which triggered the quake, in 25
> minutes only, from the French "Journal" [
Nope didnt happen. The sun still rises as predicted every morning.
- 12-30-2004, 02:17 PM #8Amy ScharzeneggerGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
Jack Prick
It looks like you have lots of egg on your face [or is that mayo
looking stuff on your lips?] !!
Please wipe it off.
Quake made planet wobble by knocking the axis off by a nanometer
By Associated Press |
Published on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/inde.../122804n_quake
E-mail this story | Print this page
Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute, likened
the power of the earthquake that struck southern Asia to detonating a
million atomic bombs the size of those dropped on Japan during World
War II. The shaking was so powerful, it even disturbed the Earth's
rotation, Boschi said.
"All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, he told Italian state
radio. Other scientists said it was early too say whether the rotation
was affected by the quake.
Geologist Kerry Sieh of the California Institute of Technology and
other scientists said the quake probably jolted the planet's rotation.
"It causes the planet to wobble a little bit, but it's not going to
turn Earth upside down," Sieh said.
A massive quake like this one will affect both the Earth's rotation and
its wobble about its axis, experts said Monday, but only the most
sensitive instruments will detect it. "The question is how much and can
it be detected," said seismologist Hiroo Kanamori of Caltech.
A large quake "moves mass from one point to another. Ocean water also
moves around, and that will affect [the rotation]," Kanamori said. "But
it will be very, very small."
'Billions of tons' of water moved
The chain reaction that sent enormous, deadly tidal waves crashing into
the coasts of Asia and Africa on Sunday started more than six miles
beneath the ocean floor off the tip of the Indonesian island of
Sumatra.
"It's just like moving an enormous paddle at the bottom of the sea,"
said David Booth, a seismologist at the British Geological Survey. "A
big column of water has moved, we're talking about billions of tons.
This is an enormous disturbance."
- 12-30-2004, 02:25 PM #9Jack ZwickGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
In article <[email protected]>,
"Amy Scharzenegger" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jack Prick
Sorry, childish insults do not make you correct.
>
> It looks like you have lots of egg on your face [or is that mayo
> looking stuff on your lips?] !!
>
> Please wipe it off.
>
> Quake made planet wobble by knocking the axis off by a nanometer
>
> By Associated Press |
> Published on Tuesday, December 28, 2004
> URL: http://www.examiner.com/article/inde.../122804n_quake
> E-mail this story | Print this page
> Enzo Boschi, the head of Italy's National Geophysics Institute, likened
> the power of the earthquake that struck southern Asia to detonating a
> million atomic bombs the size of those dropped on Japan during World
> War II. The shaking was so powerful, it even disturbed the Earth's
> rotation, Boschi said.
>
> "All the planet is vibrating" from the quake, he told Italian state
> radio. Other scientists said it was early too say whether the rotation
> was affected by the quake.
>
> Geologist Kerry Sieh of the California Institute of Technology and
> other scientists said the quake probably jolted the planet's rotation.
> "It causes the planet to wobble a little bit, but it's not going to
> turn Earth upside down," Sieh said.
"A little bit"
Not the same thing as "Knocked off of its axis" as your previous post
proclaimed
>
> A massive quake like this one will affect both the Earth's rotation and
> its wobble about its axis, experts said Monday, but only the most
> sensitive instruments will detect it. "The question is how much and can
> it be detected," said seismologist Hiroo Kanamori of Caltech.
>
> A large quake "moves mass from one point to another. Ocean water also
> moves around, and that will affect [the rotation]," Kanamori said. "But
> it will be very, very small."
>
> 'Billions of tons' of water moved
>
> The chain reaction that sent enormous, deadly tidal waves crashing into
> the coasts of Asia and Africa on Sunday started more than six miles
> beneath the ocean floor off the tip of the Indonesian island of
> Sumatra.
>
> "It's just like moving an enormous paddle at the bottom of the sea,"
> said David Booth, a seismologist at the British Geological Survey. "A
> big column of water has moved, we're talking about billions of tons.
> This is an enormous disturbance."
You believe anything you read?
Then read this. The earth has not been knocked off its axis. Earthquake
caused by movement at edge of known oceanic plates.
Not caused by "something they do not understand". Oceanic plates are
well understood, and completely mapped. Too bad you never took Freshman
Geology.
- 12-30-2004, 02:54 PM #10CHELSEAGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
GO DEBBIE GO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+++
debbie wrote:
You read somebody else's "rant". Here is my gracious posting again
below under my new posting for all you boys ... and yes, i am blonde, a
complete and real blonde, and no longer a teenager who watches Buffy
the vampire.
CINGULAR has disappointed me even more than CNN [24 hour coverage, 7
days a week of a three second tourist video recording of the tsunami's
affect on one tourist hotel-- the 9.0 Sumatra Quake caused by those
low frequency elf microwave bursts coming out of Montauk L.I. and
Gakona Alaska, and no other news coverage much at all ! -- and, Fox TV
[the testosterone-saturated O'Reilly clones only ***** ***** *****,
even more than me on my period].
I learned more about the Quake and the following hemispheric floods and
the knocking off of its axis of the Earth's rotation by a nanometer
caused by "something" they do not understand which triggered the quake,
in 25 minutes only, from the French "Journal" [and I saw visual
coverage on French Journal of the destruction and suffering in Iraq
too, of the
Iraqi civilians and our 40,000 horribly disabled and disfigured
soldiers over there and in German hospitals and in our Veterans
hospitals here-- than in one week of surfing through all the American
cable media channels. I learned stuff about Europe too, and more from
them about our nation than i can find here on cable. The BBC seems to
be censored here, it is very different from BBC2 and BBC3 in London. I
don' t trust what they call BBC here, anyway it is almost as bad as the
American news.
Why don't we see news coverage inside the VA hospitals? Also, us girls
should get together over issues, and i wanna meet many of the wives of
the reservists over there, or at least see them speak their minds on TV
news, and get their point of view on military medical insurance issues
and crippled and ruined husbands who come home barely alive. What are
their views? What help has Washington and the Congress given them with
their kids and food and clothing and health care while their spouses
are over there, and the tragedy of many returned?
I hate cell phones more than flies around **** [like some Usenet
compulsed people who must really work for the government or for the
telecoms -- those who buzz around everywhere at all hours worse than
flies and have nothing to say but a short teeny weeney babble of
offensive dinkleberries -- does a job like that pay better than retail
clerk work in the mall or a call center?] ... the cell phone for me is
because I cannot get a landline in my room in my group house and I am
trying to get a job in this IMPOSSIBLE job market [i just graduated
from college a little while ago] and i am too pretty and too afraid to
go and fight in Iraq, which most of my guy friends did when WalMart
would not hire them.
Whichever of you said "buy prepaid time" ... I think i will. Thanks.
The customer care people for the Take Care offer of Cingular are mostly
temps and afraid of losing the few no benefits hours they are earning
through their temp agencies, and they hardly know diddly, and they will
not tell you to your face they received no training to answer many
questions, only to say after being coached by a whispering supervisor
"We will have a manager call you after a complete investigation" which
never happens and they never call back, or, they say "our computers
show you have been enjoying the free nights and weekend minutes". KISS
MY PUBES.
Those kind of remarks are more worthless than a used disposable tampon.
Cingular Take Care better ****ing take care of all the outraged
customers who do not like being grabbed and doggie ****ed from behind
by a lying an cheatin bunch of Halliburton and Wackenhut like pimps and
dogs who think they are so oh oh so clever to promise free nights after
9pm and free weekends, but all they are offering like a pimp is an
expensive Prepaid card of $50 plus federal taxes that bring it over
$56.00, meaning 16 cents per minute [and they charge you twice for
listening to your voice mails [about 30 cents to check yur messages
with the "voice mail forwarding" charge] ... AND NOT ONE FREE MINUTE,
NOT EVEN TWO on the weekends or after 9pm. Let me state that again for
the usenet flies, NO FREE MINUTES.
They are at Cingular, as Burl Ives says in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," --
mendacious!!
When the managers of Take Charge Cingular die, they will live a life of
eternity strung up by their genitals, male and female, by thin piano
wire, upside down, for all time and they will envy the people roasting
to death.
Debbie Smythe wrote:
> Pascasito wrote:
> > [Snip Debbie's rant about C;ngular] THAT IS NOT MY POSTING
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!! --debbie
> >
> > I just fired C;ngular. I had the world's worst plan and anything to
> > improve would have cost more. Nothing made sense.
> -------------------
>
> You read somebody else's "rant". Here is my gracious posting again
> below under my new posting for all you boys ... and yes, i am blonde,
a
> complete and real blonde, and no longer a teenager who watches Buffy
> the vampire.
>
> CINGULAR has disappointed me even more than CNN [24 hour coverage, 7
> days a week of a three second tourist video recording of the
tsunami's
> affect on one tourist hotel-- the 9.0 Sumatra Quake caused by those
> low frequency elf microwave bursts coming out of Montauk L.I. and
> Gakona Alaska, and no other news coverage much at all ! -- and, Fox
TV
> [the testosterone-saturated O'Reilly clones only ***** ***** *****,
> even more than me on my period].
>
> I learned more about the Quake and the following hemispheric floods
and
> the knocking off of its axis of the Earth's rotation caused by
> "something" they do not understand which triggered the quake, in 25
> minutes only, from the French "Journal" [and I saw visual coverage
on
> French Journal of the destruction and suffering in Iraq too, of the
> Iraqi civilians and our 40,000 horribly disabled and disfigured
> soldiers over there and in German hospitals and in our Veterans
> hospitals here-- than in one week of surfing through all the American
> cable media channels. I learned stuff about Europe too, and more
from
> them about our nation than i can find here on cable. The BBC seems
to
> be censored here, it is very different from BBC2 and BBC3 in London.
I
> don' t trust what they call BBC here, anyway it is almost as bad as
the
> American news.
>
> Why don't we see news coverage inside the VA hospitals? Also, us
girls
> should get together over issues, and i wanna meet many of the wives
of
> the reservists over there, or at least see them speak their minds on
TV
> news, and get their point of view on military medical insurance
issues
> and crippled and ruined husbands who come home barely alive. What
are
> their views? What help has Washington and the Congress given them
with
> their kids and food and clothing and health care while their spouses
> are over there, and the tragedy of many returned?
>
> I hate cell phones more than flies around **** [like some Usenet
> compulsed people who must really work for the government or for the
> telecoms -- those who buzz around everywhere at all hours worse than
> flies and have nothing to say but a short teeny weeney babble of
> offensive dinkleberries -- does a job like that pay better than
retail
> clerk work in the mall or a call center?] ... the cell phone for me
is
> because I cannot get a landline in my room in my group house and I am
> trying to get a job in this IMPOSSIBLE job market [i just graduated
> from college a little while ago] and i am too pretty and too afraid
to
> go and fight in Iraq, which most of my guy friends did when WalMart
> would not hire them.
>
> Whichever of you said "buy prepaid time" ... I think i will. Thanks.
> The customer care people for the Take Care offer of Cingular are
mostly
> temps and afraid of losing the few no benefits hours they are earning
> through their temp agencies, and they hardly know diddly, and they
will
> not tell you to your face they received no training to answer many
> questions, only to say after being coached by a whispering supervisor
> "We will have a manager call you after a complete investigation"
which
> never happens and they never call back, or, they say "our computers
> show you have been enjoying the free nights and weekend minutes".
KISS
> MY PUBES.
>
> Those kind of remarks are more worthless than a used disposable
tampon.
>
> Cingular Take Care better ****ing take care of all the outraged
> customers who do not like being grabbed and doggie ****ed from behind
> by a lying an cheatin bunch of Halliburton and Wackenhut like pimps
and
> dogs who think they are so oh oh so clever to promise free nights
after
> 9pm and free weekends, but all they are offering like a pimp is an
> expensive Prepaid card of $50 plus federal taxes that bring it over
> $56.00, meaning 16 cents per minute [and they charge you twice for
> listening to your voice mails [about 30 cents to check yur messages
> with the "voice mail forwarding" charge] ... AND NOT ONE FREE MINUTE,
> NOT EVEN TWO on the weekends or after 9pm. Let me state that again
for
> the usenet flies, NO FREE MINUTES.
>
> They are at Cingular, as Burl Ives says in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,"
--
> mendacious!!
>
> When the managers of Take Charge Cingular die, they will live a life
of
> eternity strung up by their genitals, male and female, by thin piano
> wire, upside down, for all time and they will envy the people
roasting
> to death.
>
> -------------
>
>
> Sir/Madame,
>
> How did you get a cell phone, a regular cell phone account, without a
> credit card? Did a parent or employer or friend use their credit card
> for you? Have you heard anyone else's misery with CINGULAR Take
Charge
> ****ing them over? The catch is, they try to catch little financial
> wimps like me with no credit by promoting this "Use your Visa debit
> card or your checking account" and pay by the month, $49.99, for 400
> minutes at 12.5 cents per minute [saving you one penny more than
buying
> a prepaid card of $50 from a competitor], PLUS, free nights after 9pm
> and FREE WEEKENDS.
>
> Well, i am paying up the ass and through the nose for nights after
9pm
> and weekends, they deduct those minutes too, so my 50 bucks went down
> the tube pretty ****ing fast. I have called their customer service
> about 25 times [nearly 20 hours of their **** on the phone] and they
> are trained to say that their computers show that i am NOT being
billed
> for the nightly nor weekend calls, which is complete rubbish. I would
> be better off with just a $25 inserted prepaid chip every 4 or 5
weeks
> from a Home Depot carrier or the like and be careful with each call,
> making no chatty calls to friends or relatives at any time, just
> practical and necessary communications. I have asked myself, am i the
> only one whose Take Charge account with Cingular was set up in this
> ****ed up fashion on activation date, by a clumsy clerk, or is nearly
> all or every customer of Take Charge with Cingular being screwed like
> this? If they are, why is there no national revolt of dissed
> customers? Is this the way all the misdeeds of USA are being managed,
> by handlers who know the public is sheepish and defenseless?
>
> Should I kill my Cingular Take Charge account and then immediately
sign
> up for a new one to see if it is only me, and/or a few others, who
have
> been gulled and conned in this way?
>
> Debbie
>
>
>
> >
> > Got a second line from T-Mobi!e from spousal unit. Much better
deal.
> > I think you would be better off with a prepaid card.
> > Pascasito
> > Look for fewer options as cell companies merge
>
>
>
> Pascasito wrote:
> > [Snip Debbie's rant about C;ngular]
> >
> > I just fired C;ngular. I had the world's worst plan and anything to
> > improve would have cost more. Nothing made sense.
> >
> > Got a second line from T-Mobi!e from spousal unit. Much better
deal.
> > I think you would be better off with a prepaid card.
> > Pascasito
> > Look for fewer options as cell companies merge
- 12-30-2004, 03:09 PM #11Never anonymous BudGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
Trying to steal the thunder from Arnold, "CHELSEA" <[email protected]> on 30 Dec 2004 12:54:09 -0800 spoke:
> the 9.0 Sumatra Quake caused by those low frequency elf microwave
> bursts coming out of Montauk L.I. and Gakona Alaska,
No, it didn't.
>caused by "something" they do not understand which triggered the quake,
Wrong, totally and completely.
--
The truth is out there,
but it's not interesting enough for most people.
- 12-30-2004, 05:59 PM #12JerGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
Joan F (MI) wrote:
> You mean I can only have things which are necessities? Do I have to give up
> my dishwasher? my TV? my microwave?
>
> In news:[email protected],
> sparky <[email protected]> stated
> | If you do not have a credit card then you are better off with a
> | prepaid card.
> | The next question is, Do you really need a cell phone? Many people
> | think they
> | do but if they really took a deep look they would find it is only a
> | convenience
> | not a necesity.
>
>
You have a dishwasher AND a microwave? together? What's the point?
--
jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'
- 12-30-2004, 06:22 PM #13Debbie SmytheGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
http://www.independent-media.tv/item...media_id=10211
Material by:
Andrew Limburg
Material from:
Independent Media TV
Material about:
Top Stories Ignored By U.S. Media
Material about:
Oil
Now I don't claim to be an expert on seismic activity, but there has
been a series of events which led up to the 9.0 earthquake of the coast
of Indonesia which can not be ignored. This all could be an enormous
coincidence, but one must look at the information and choose for
themselves whether there is anything to it.
On November 28th, one month ago, Reuters reported that during a 3 day
span 169 whales and dolphins beached themselves in Tasmania, an island
of the southern coast of mainland Australia and in New Zealand. The
cause for these beachings is not known, but Bob Brown, a senator in the
Australian parliament, said "sound bombing" or seismic tests of ocean
floors to test for oil and gas had been carried out near the sites of
the Tasmanian beachings recently.
According to Jim Cummings of the Acoustic Ecology Institute, Seismic
surveys utilizing airguns have been taking place in mineral-rich areas
of the world's oceans since 1968. Among the areas that have
experienced the most intense survey activity are the North Sea, the
Beaufort Sea (off Alaska's North Slope), and the Gulf of Mexico;
areas around Australia and South America are also current hot-spots of
activity.
The impulses created by the release of air from arrays of up to 24
airguns create low frequency sound waves powerful enough to penetrate
up to 40km below the seafloor. The "source level" of these sound
waves is generally over 200dB (and often 230dB or more), roughly
comparable to a sound of at least 140-170dB in air.
According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, these 200dB -
230dB shots from the airguns are fired every 10 seconds or so, from 10
meters below the surface, 24 hours a day, for 2 week periods of time,
weather permitting.
These types of tests are known to affect whales and dolphins, whose
acute hearing and use of sonar is very sensitive.
On December 24th there was a magnitude 8.1 earthquake more than 500
miles southeast of Tasmania near New Zealand, with a subsequent
aftershock 6.1 a little later in the morning that same day.
On December 26th, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck at the
intersection of the Australian tectonic plate and the Indian tectonic
plate. This is the devastating tsunami tragedy that we have all heard
about in the Indian Ocean. The death toll of this horrific event has
reached 120,000 souls and continues to rise.
On December 27th, 20 whales beached themselves 110 miles west of Hobart
on the southern island state of Tasmania.
What is interesting about this is that the same place where the whale
beachings have been taking place over the last 30 days is the same
general area where the 8.1 Australian earthquake took place, and this
is the same area where they are doing these seismic tests. Then 2 days
after the Australian tectonic plate shifted, the 9.0 earthquake shook
the coast of Indonesia.
A great deal of interest and seismic testing has been taking place in
this area, as the government of Australia has given great tax breaks to
encourage the oil exploration.
Two Geologists that I spoke to felt that it was highly unlikely that
these seismic tests would have had enough energy to induce the
Australian quake. On the other hand there is strong evidence that
suggests that oil exploration activities have induced earthquakes in
the past.
Again, I don't claim to be an expert. I'm writing this story to bring
attention to some interesting facts, so that those who are experts can
investigate this fully.
We will be following up on this story as more information is gathered.
Photos:
Whale Beachings in Tasmania, Australia and New Zealand on November
30th, 2004
- 12-30-2004, 06:41 PM #14Scott StephensonGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
"Debbie Smythe" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> http://www.independent-media.tv/item...media_id=10211
>
> Material by:
> Andrew Limburg
>
> Material from:
> Independent Media TV
>
> Material about:
> Top Stories Ignored By U.S. Media
>
> Material about:
> Oil
>
<snip>
Do you buy your aluminum foil by the case or truckload? You can answer
using the "Secret Code" if it makes you feel safer. I know 'They' are
always listening in.
- 12-31-2004, 01:16 PM #15Barry HorowitzGuest
Re: CINGULAR Nightmare Before NEW YEAR'S EVE !
If you have a problem With Cingular (or any phone company), write a
hand-addressed letter to the President of Cingular, and make sure that
you clearly c.c. the NY Attorney General, the US Attorney General, and
the Federal Trade Commission. If necessary, say that you were "slammed"
or lied to about your service. You will get a call back from the
president's admin within two days apologising profusely and dropping
all money charges.
\
Cingular are the worst, and have just paid out millions in a class
action suit in California. We also had a nightmare with them two years
ago, until in desperation Helen resorted to the above strategy. Just
recently, we had a similar problem with AT&T, who had offered to lower
our long distance then charged us 3.00/minute to call UK, when we had
been paying 0.10/minute!!!.
PAcBell was going to cut us off for non-payment of an erroneous $427
bill for one month's worth of international calls. AT&T service reps
refused to listen, kept denying all or any previous conversations until
Helen did the above again and immediately got the same reaction-
grovelling profuse apologies from Corporate HQ, plus all money charges
dropped. The phone companies really do NOT want any more flack--the
heat is on them big time from various Fed consumer agencies.
Barry
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