So today I bit the bullet and got a new cell phone. My other cell phone was one month old before it died. It died from some new form of electronic pnuemonia. I sent it in to be repaired but to no avail...The tests came back "Liquid Damage!"
I went smimming in the pool one day, took the phone out of my pocket before doing the big cannonball splash crowd pleaser, doggy paddled for a while before laying lazilly in the sun for forty five minutes. After forty five minutes in the sun I'm mostly dry...One would think! I grab my few meager pocket possesions, keys, coins, smokes, lighter and cell phone, place them in my ALMOST DRY pockets and head up three flights of stairs to my place where I imediately get changed. Pulling the phone from my pocket, I notice some water vapor inside the viewscreen glass, so I turn the phone off and place it on top of my warmest monitor to help remove the vapor. This was not to protect the phone, I just ccould'nt see the readout to well. The phone never came back to life...Dead, and off to join the great resistor in the sky. So nobody will fix the damned thing and I only paid $1.39 for it after rebates and blah....So I write it off. Today I went shopping for a new one. After telling my sad tale to a local cel dealer, he offered me a good deal on a great phone. But wait says I, that's a good price, What about all the activation fees and switchyondafone taxes and all that other hidden stuff. He tells me he feels sorry for me and my dilema and will not apply those charges. I watch as he pulls the new phone from its box, insert the SIM and Bingo Bango, I'm back In business. But then!!! I got to thinking, what the hell kinda bullshit cash goughing crap is this $35.00 activation fee anyway! and why have I paid it with every other new phone I've purchased. They don't activate dick...Stick the ****in SIM card in and go. That sort of thing really pisses me off. It's like ordering a steak in your favorite restaurant and being forced to pay a $35.00 deactivation fee on the COW!!!
Geeez
I went smimming in the pool one day, took the phone out of my pocket before doing the big cannonball splash crowd pleaser, doggy paddled for a while before laying lazilly in the sun for forty five minutes. After forty five minutes in the sun I'm mostly dry...One would think! I grab my few meager pocket possesions, keys, coins, smokes, lighter and cell phone, place them in my ALMOST DRY pockets and head up three flights of stairs to my place where I imediately get changed. Pulling the phone from my pocket, I notice some water vapor inside the viewscreen glass, so I turn the phone off and place it on top of my warmest monitor to help remove the vapor. This was not to protect the phone, I just ccould'nt see the readout to well. The phone never came back to life...Dead, and off to join the great resistor in the sky. So nobody will fix the damned thing and I only paid $1.39 for it after rebates and blah....So I write it off. Today I went shopping for a new one. After telling my sad tale to a local cel dealer, he offered me a good deal on a great phone. But wait says I, that's a good price, What about all the activation fees and switchyondafone taxes and all that other hidden stuff. He tells me he feels sorry for me and my dilema and will not apply those charges. I watch as he pulls the new phone from its box, insert the SIM and Bingo Bango, I'm back In business. But then!!! I got to thinking, what the hell kinda bullshit cash goughing crap is this $35.00 activation fee anyway! and why have I paid it with every other new phone I've purchased. They don't activate dick...Stick the ****in SIM card in and go. That sort of thing really pisses me off. It's like ordering a steak in your favorite restaurant and being forced to pay a $35.00 deactivation fee on the COW!!!
Geeez