Stolen Moments

I am a "pay as you go" Verizon customer and have been using prepaid
cellular for about 4 years. I had accumlated 17 hours of free weekend
hours and apparently this was making Verizon nervous and therefore the
past two times when it came time to renew my minutes Verizon cut off my
text messaging for no reason whatsoever and in doing so prevented me
from receiving the standard "warning text message" that my regular
minutes were about to expire. The first time I caught it and renewed
without any problem but this last time (a week ago) I had not used my
fone for several days therefore I did not get the verbal notice and
because they had cut off my txt messaging for no reason I did not get
the text message warning and 8 hours after my minutes expired I got a
notice telling me I was about to lose my cel number unless I renewed..
Well I called and renewed and asked for my "stolen minutes" back but
they refused saying I had not called in on time. When I asked why I did
not get the "standard text message" telling me my minutes were about to
expire I was told it was because of their error but even so I could not
get my minutes back.
While waiting on hold to hear this lousy news I also noted that
Verizon was raising a bunch of their rates as much as 300 percent. Hey
Verizon what is up with you guys??? You are sounding more and more like
"General Telephone" Oh you were General Telephone werent you..
Anyway we will be parting company very soon and I think everyone else
that you have screwed should get away from you as soon as possible...
Bob Hennessey (yeah that is my real name)


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bigbobh

> Anyway we will be parting company very soon

Bye.

-Frank

You have just listed several reasons why I would not be interested in
prepay service from anyone.


bigbobh wrote:
> I am a "pay as you go" Verizon customer and have been using prepaid
> cellular for about 4 years. I had accumlated 17 hours of free weekend
> hours and apparently this was making Verizon nervous and therefore the
> past two times when it came time to renew my minutes Verizon cut off my
> text messaging for no reason whatsoever and in doing so prevented me
> from receiving the standard "warning text message" that my regular
> minutes were about to expire. The first time I caught it and renewed
> without any problem but this last time (a week ago) I had not used my
> fone for several days therefore I did not get the verbal notice and
> because they had cut off my txt messaging for no reason I did not get
> the text message warning and 8 hours after my minutes expired I got a
> notice telling me I was about to lose my cel number unless I renewed..
> Well I called and renewed and asked for my "stolen minutes" back but
> they refused saying I had not called in on time. When I asked why I did
> not get the "standard text message" telling me my minutes were about to
> expire I was told it was because of their error but even so I could not
> get my minutes back.
> While waiting on hold to hear this lousy news I also noted that
> Verizon was raising a bunch of their rates as much as 300 percent. Hey
> Verizon what is up with you guys??? You are sounding more and more like
> "General Telephone" Oh you were General Telephone werent you..
> Anyway we will be parting company very soon and I think everyone else
> that you have screwed should get away from you as soon as possible...
> Bob Hennessey (yeah that is my real name)
>
>

bigbobh wrote:
> I am a "pay as you go" Verizon customer

So your credit is that bad, huh?


> "General Telephone" Oh you were General Telephone werent you..

Not entirely. In fact, the old GTE mobilenet is but a small fraction of
the roll-up that occurred between it, Bell Atlantic Mobile, PrimeCo
Wireless and Airtouch Cellular. And even, its influence is further
diluted by the fact that slightly less than half the entity is owned by
Vodafone.

> Anyway we will be parting company very soon and I think everyone else
> that you have screwed should get away from you as soon as possible...

Do you normally have such intimate chats with inanimate corporate entities?

> Bob Hennessey (yeah that is my real name)

He used his real name. Oh, I'm scared.

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bigbobh wrote:
> I am a "pay as you go" Verizon customer and have been
> using prepaid cellular for about 4 years.

I have the impression that VZW is not really going after
the pre-pay market.

-Quick

Using a pay-as-you-go may or maynot have anything to do with Credit. Some
people have no credit because they use cash. Some people just prefer
pre-pay for whatever reason. dr
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"Isaiah Beard" <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com> wrote in message
news:11c2ssnc272s8c3@corp.supernews.com...
> bigbobh wrote:
>> I am a "pay as you go" Verizon customer
>
> So your credit is that bad, huh?
>
>
>> "General Telephone" Oh you were General Telephone werent you..
>
> Not entirely. In fact, the old GTE mobilenet is but a small fraction of
> the roll-up that occurred between it, Bell Atlantic Mobile, PrimeCo
> Wireless and Airtouch Cellular. And even, its influence is further
> diluted by the fact that slightly less than half the entity is owned by
> Vodafone.
>
>> Anyway we will be parting company very soon and I think everyone else
>> that you have screwed should get away from you as soon as possible...
>
> Do you normally have such intimate chats with inanimate corporate
> entities?
>
>> Bob Hennessey (yeah that is my real name)
>
> He used his real name. Oh, I'm scared.
>
> --
> E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
> Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.

Right on, Doc.
My significant reason for having a single pre-pay phone,
in addition to my two other post-paid phones,
is that for around $15 per month, I have a loaner for phoneless visitors,
with no fear of a big bill to pay if they lose or abuse it.
My foreign guests have always offered to reimburse me for their usage,
which often includes calling to friends and family back home.
But I generally decline, on the basis of being hospitable to them.
They always thank me profusely, and that's payment enough.

"dr.news" <dr.news@better-price.biz.delete-the-obvious> wrote in message news:%6iwe.7836$GH6.5383@newssvr17.news.prodigy.co m...
> Using a pay-as-you-go may or maynot have anything to do with Credit. Some
> people have no credit because they use cash. Some people just prefer
> pre-pay for whatever reason. dr
> --
> dr.news

Several bone heads in here will tell you to re-read the contract or tell you
that you are an idiot. Ya know, typical cell phone geeks that lurk in here
thinking they know it all. Listen, dump this ****ty company and get a real
one. Verizon will do anything in their power to suck as much money from you
even when you aren't looking. Yea, business is business...but when a company
drops down to the scum of scum bag moves and practices to get that money
they should be all tied to a pole and shot in the head. ****ers.

"bigbobh" <bigbobh.1rbsvr@news.cellbanter.com> wrote in message
news:bigbobh.1rbsvr@news.cellbanter.com...
>
> I am a "pay as you go" Verizon customer and have been using prepaid
> cellular for about 4 years. I had accumlated 17 hours of free weekend
> hours and apparently this was making Verizon nervous and therefore the
> past two times when it came time to renew my minutes Verizon cut off my
> text messaging for no reason whatsoever and in doing so prevented me
> from receiving the standard "warning text message" that my regular
> minutes were about to expire. The first time I caught it and renewed
> without any problem but this last time (a week ago) I had not used my
> fone for several days therefore I did not get the verbal notice and
> because they had cut off my txt messaging for no reason I did not get
> the text message warning and 8 hours after my minutes expired I got a
> notice telling me I was about to lose my cel number unless I renewed..
> Well I called and renewed and asked for my "stolen minutes" back but
> they refused saying I had not called in on time. When I asked why I did
> not get the "standard text message" telling me my minutes were about to
> expire I was told it was because of their error but even so I could not
> get my minutes back.
> While waiting on hold to hear this lousy news I also noted that
> Verizon was raising a bunch of their rates as much as 300 percent. Hey
> Verizon what is up with you guys??? You are sounding more and more like
> "General Telephone" Oh you were General Telephone werent you..
> Anyway we will be parting company very soon and I think everyone else
> that you have screwed should get away from you as soon as possible...
> Bob Hennessey (yeah that is my real name)
>
>
> --
> bigbobh

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:08:27 GMT, "dr.news"
<dr.news@better-price.biz.delete-the-obvious> wrote:

>Using a pay-as-you-go may or maynot have anything to do with Credit. Some
>people have no credit because they use cash. Some people just prefer
>pre-pay for whatever reason.

And some people use it for their kids to help teach them discipline
and self-control, without risking a big bill on their own account.

I have had similar experiences with these jokers and
suspect these are evidence of internal problems--that
they would like to warp the pay as you go end of their
business to wring some short term cash out of us.

On the phone in customer support line-when your on
hold-they have commercials for
automatic debit programs for paying your bill.

Now, I don't know if they want to apply that to we pay as you go
customers but it seems to me it I would be foolish to trust
such a company with a key to my bank account or credit card.

I loath these guys but continue with this one only because
it is convenient to have a cell phone for emergencies and travel.

I will lose verizon the moment my needs change and I will even
pay a bit more to be free of verizon. A bad actor among a bunch
of bad actors, I fear, but the others have not ripped me off --yet.

In article <bigbobh.1rbsvr@news.cellbanter.com>,
bigbobh.1rbsvr@news.cellbanter.com says...
> Bob Hennessey (yeah that is my real name)
>
>
take caution on which company you go to. Bellsouth & Cingular
advertised one plan on Bellsouths website that did not even
exist and after I bought it and found out it did not exist it
took 2 months to get my money back.