Can you hear which finger I'm extending now? Good!

[xequalsfun]

I recently got a $220 cell phone bill from T-Mobile.

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[tempted77]

I'm really surprised that the "my contract expires in two months" line did not work. That's usually the magic phrase with cell phone companies.

Mle267 and I are notorious for harrassing AT&T Cingular AT&T. I don't think I've paid more than $20 for a new cell phone since 1998.

One of the keys to success is to ask to be transferred to a supervisor as soon as you're connected - and to tell them that the phone call is being recorded for *YOUR* satisfaction. (Skype has an add-on called Pamela that makes recording calls easy.)

[xequalsfun]

I was pretty shocked, too. I am sure they'll change their tune when I call them up to cancel, although at that point, I'm not sure how much they'll be able to do except for give me a marginally better deal on a free phone.

AT&T has an online deal where you get a free RAZR. It would be pretty sweet to have a cell phone with technology that's been developed in the past 5 years in it. My current phone is a Nokia BRIK.

I can't remember when, or what company I was talking to, but I've only ever asked to be transferred to a supervisor once and they refused to do so.

[ahansen]

I use a Nokia BRIK, also. At times I also call it The Oldest, Most Bare-Bones Phone You Can Get (TOMBBPYCG). TOMBBPYCG has never let me down; not once. All it does it make calls, TXT messages, and has a built-in flashlight in its power-button (which has saved my ass a good number of times).

As a result, I would highly recommend staying with your Nokia BRIK. All of my friends or relatives who have the fancier, new phones (from RAZRs to Chocolates to iPhones) have had nothing but problems. Lost phone books, broken screens, dead batteries, and worse. Keep it simple; the more crap they cram into a cell phone, the more can go wrong. I have this same feeling about cars. ^_^"

Also, I would like to say that all cell phone companies put you over a pillar and let David Duchovny ass-rape you. It's just what they do. They know you "need" a cell phone, so they can basically do whatever they want to you; especially when you don't read the fine print on those evil contracts. No dinner, no date, no lube.

[stalwartkumquat]

but at least it's David Duchovny, right?

[xequalsfun]

ahansen is alluding to a conversation we had back in college regarding a certain co-star on the X-Files (which, evidently, is about to show up again...for some reason...10 years later), a certain type of lode-bearing structure, and a certain act of rectal violation. Which led to the coining of the term "to duchovny" for any especially unfair and callous treatment, such as "Dude, the Financial Aid office just totally duchovnied me."

[xequalsfun]

Well, the advantage of sticking with a SIM card phone company is that if they give me a fancy phone and it bites it, I can just pull out the BRIK, as it were, and stay with that. I am a little tired of getting ridiculed for having a BRIK, though. And the "5" button on my BRIK is getting iffy.