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  1. #1
    Jack Zwick
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    I carefully document how a Corporate Cingular store (Chimney Rock &
    Westheimer in Houston, TX) is selling a "Made in China" no-name Car
    Charger available elsewhere for $3.99 at the rip-off price of $29.99;
    and the apologists break their arm patting Cingular on the back for
    providing this service. Meanwhile the Genuine Sony car charger lists at
    $19.99


    Links documenting the pricing were in the Original Post.




    Items

    1. It was a Corporate Store. AND EVEN THERE A PROPER COVERAGE
    MAP IS UNAVAILBLE, ONLY THE UNINTELLIGIBLE SMALL MAP OF THE U.S.
    from which details of any city are invisible. The Houston area is
    solid orange, omitting all the dead zones, some of which are in fact
    being fixed>

    http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cel...rted/pop-cover
    age.jsp?q_zip=77002


    But those holes and myriad remaining never existed
    according to all the maps from Cingular.


    2. A 750 % + markup is a ripoff under any definition.
    3. Chilidish Personal Attacks on the poster don't change Cingular's
    Customer unfriendly behavior. Another Company store
    didnt have in stock....Store didnt check whether
    any other store might have in stock, didnt check if they were
    getting any in soon, didnt offer to special order. Slightly west,
    an AT&T Wireless Company store that had been converted
    to Cingular badged store is now closed down.
    4. I love my TiVo (HR10-250); and DirecTv is so much better than Cable,
    SBC/Yahoo dsl is rock solid reliable and 1/3 the cost of RoadRunner.
    So falsehoods about my only being negative are just baloney.
    Here's positive about my new cell phone.
    5. As I said, I now have a new Sony/Ericsson W600i, it's
    everything the Rokr should have been was isn't.
    It's an awesome phone, and I saved further, as:
    A) It fits nicely in my "pouch" case that had held a v600.
    B) I don't need a car charger as I can use the supplied Travel
    charger in the AC plug in the dashboard of my car, and charge
    the phone on its USB (supplied) cable at home.
    C) Wont be charging it much anyway as its rated at
    14 day standby time.
    D) Freeware Macintosh iSync plugin works great. And it syncs
    via Bluetooth.
    E) Address book so much better than Motorolas, only one entry
    when person has multiple numbers (home, cell, work, etc).
    F) Built in FM radio tuner works great.
    G) 1.3 Megapixel camera with Flash is great, supplied PC
    software works better than extra cost Motorola Phone Tools,
    loading MP3 or unloading pics is drag and drop.
    USB data cable is supplied, not extra cost as with Motorola.
    H) I think 256 Meg memory is more than the 5 Megs
    my v600 has.
    I) Ericsson phones allow bulk move of all contacts back and
    forth from SIM to Phone, not painful manual one at a time
    necessary on v600.
    J) I get a $4/month discount on my Cingular service by allowing
    combined billing with my SBC POTS and dsl.
    K) W600i comes with 2 faceplates (orange & Dark Gray),
    and many others are on eBay.
    L) Simple transfer of address books between two W600i with
    Infrared!

    http://macncell.com/index_html/archi...isync-plugin-f
    or-sony-ericsson-w600i--w550i


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  2. #2
    Scott
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    Re: Corporate apologists at work, but W600i rocks.


    "Jack Zwick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...
    <snip the whining>

    So, Phil- when's the contract up? I should go back into the archives and
    repost some identical posts you made about Sprint and then post the most
    glowing compliments you had for Cingular when you switched.

    I'm betting that they finally got sick of your games and stopped dealing
    with you.





  3. #3
    John Navas
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    Re: Corporate apologists at work, but W600i rocks.

    [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]

    In <[email protected]> on Mon, 06
    Feb 2006 12:44:11 GMT, Jack Zwick <[email protected]> wrote:

    >I carefully document how a Corporate Cingular store (Chimney Rock &
    >Westheimer in Houston, TX) is selling a "Made in China" no-name Car
    >Charger available elsewhere for $3.99 at the rip-off price of $29.99;
    >and the apologists break their arm patting Cingular on the back for
    >providing this service.


    We're actually saying there's nothing wrong with charging for the convenience.
    And there isn't. It's not a rip-off any more than charging $2 for a bottle of
    water is a rip-off.

    >Meanwhile the Genuine Sony car charger lists at
    >$19.99


    Plus shipping, which might well be significant. And you said it was that
    price on the website, not necessarily the list price -- they might well be
    different. Regardless, it's much more convenient to pick it up at a store
    than to order it online and wait for it to arrive. There are lots of people
    willing to pay for that convenience.

    >Links documenting the pricing were in the Original Post.


    >2. A 750 % + markup is a ripoff under any definition.


    Nonsense, as I've explained, and that's not the markup in any event. You
    clearly don't understand retail economics.

    --
    Best regards, SEE THE FAQ FOR CINGULAR WIRELESS AT
    John Navas <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cingular_Wireless_FAQ>



  4. #4
    Austinman
    Guest

    Re: Corporate apologists at work, but W600i rocks.


    "Jack Zwick" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...
    >I carefully document how a Corporate Cingular store (Chimney Rock &
    > Westheimer in Houston, TX) is selling a "Made in China" no-name Car
    > Charger available elsewhere for $3.99 at the rip-off price of $29.99;
    > and the apologists break their arm patting Cingular on the back for
    > providing this service. Meanwhile the Genuine Sony car charger lists at
    > $19.99
    >
    >
    > Links documenting the pricing were in the Original Post.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Items
    >
    > 1. It was a Corporate Store. AND EVEN THERE A PROPER COVERAGE
    > MAP IS UNAVAILBLE, ONLY THE UNINTELLIGIBLE SMALL MAP OF THE U.S.
    > from which details of any city are invisible. The Houston area is
    > solid orange, omitting all the dead zones, some of which are in fact
    > being fixed>
    >
    > http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cel...rted/pop-cover
    > age.jsp?q_zip=77002
    >
    >
    > But those holes and myriad remaining never existed
    > according to all the maps from Cingular.
    >


    > 4. I love my TiVo (HR10-250); and DirecTv is so much better than Cable,
    > SBC/Yahoo dsl is rock solid reliable and 1/3 the cost of RoadRunner.
    > So falsehoods about my only being negative are just baloney.
    > Here's positive about my new cell phone.
    > 5. As I said, I now have a new Sony/Ericsson W600i, it's
    > everything the Rokr should have been was isn't.
    > It's an awesome phone.


    As a V400 user myself I have to agree that the Sony is probably a vast
    improvement, but as for DSL being better than cable, I don't think so. The
    speed of cable is way ahead of DSL. Reliability is also another issue. I
    know too many people who are amazed when I tell them that our cable modem
    has sat at the back of a closet for the past year without even a re-boot.
    Their DSL modems are typically restarted once or twice a week. It appears
    SBC forces a renewal/change of the IP address so that you cannot use your
    connection for a web server (etc.). My cable IP address never changes.

    DSL may be cheaper, but there is a reason for that. As they say, you get
    what you pay for; or not if you buy from a Cingular shop :-)





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