in response to daisybean's thread, i thought we should have a happy thread too.
this thread is where you post happy things. it can be the little things in life that make you happy, good news you've gotten, anything.
**WARNING: LONG POST ABOUT MY NEW PHONE AHEAD**
i'll go first: i thought i'd have to pay a huge fee to cancel my old one, and it turns out my contract expired this week, so as long as i cancel by friday, i won't have to pay any fees! that and the fact i will be getting huge rebates on it, i'm so happy.
i love the switch from cingular to t-mobile. since i've never really had to call customer service for either company, i only really have experienced the people working at the local stores. i'll take each at a time:
both stores are like a mile from my house. they're about the same distance apart, it's just one you turn left on the main road, the other you turn right.
ANYWAY...the local cingular store. asshole supreme is the best way to describe them. they're condescending and rude. it's like they assume you are the lowest common denominator (remember this is in-person visits to the store itself, not tech support or anything where they can't see you and have to assume you're lying about when you say you're doing something). they've try to lie to me in the past with things. they were nice enough to offer to change our billing date and failing to tell us that it would extend our contract. they essentially told me my cell phone insurance was pointless.
my original phone kept shutting itself off even when it was fully charged. after driving out to the redneck ghetto (with white trash people driving pintos instead of bling-blings driving pimp-mobiles) twice to get the battery tightened, it appeared the phone was just fucked. methinks it has to do with the fact that it's a nokia. they seem to work all right for a while, and then wimp out after a couple years. i had to get the phone replaced. it was unreliable, and i have the phone mainly for security reasons. walking around a dark campus at six in the morning scared me, since the security phones are few and far between (walking across the entire campus i'd see two).
so, i had cell phone insurance. since the phone wasn't broken really (since i'm sure a little tweaking by nokia or cingular would render it normal again), i was assuming i could get a replacement for free. i wasn't expecting to get the ultra deluxe phone 3000, i was looking at the model similar to mine, but newer, cuz mine wasn't offered anymore, at least not through them. to buy it new was even the same price as mine was when i got it! it was like $20 with contract, the same as mine.
well, they tell me not so. apparantely my cell phone insurance was worthless, i had to pay $35 to replace it - more than the phone itself! so i begrudginly did it.
also, when my husband was added on, they said the activation fee would be waived, and all that crap. essentially, he'd just be charged for the phone and plan. nuh uh! luckily, we had it in writing so we could get the charges taken off. assholes.
anyway, onto t-mobile. the girl at the store was so nice to me. i went in to change my plan. i'd bought the phone and plan through amazon.com to get the phone almost free (t-mobile was offering a $50 rebate, amazon.com was offering an additional $200 rebate, so after i got the checks the phone would cost me only $50). however, they didn't offer a lot of the plans available, so i had to sign up for one that was expensive and had way more minutes than i'd ever need. even with the three of us (me, my mom, and my husband) sharing minutes we didn't even use this many (1000)!!
turns out all i had to do was call customer service. she was super nice and even called them for me! i had a password and i didn't know that, and she was nice enough to tell me without raking me over the coals first for being a moron and not knowing (it wasn't listed in any e-mails i got, the phone package, nothing). i get internet access for free the first month, lots of cool freebies. apprantely i can cancel after that too, it's not like i have to keep the access to get the first month free. so i think i may do that. if i need movie times i have the hotline number, i don't think i need to check my horoscope when i'm not at home.
so i'm all happy about that. my phone's also a pretty silver colour, so i like that. it matches everything else i own. my computer, television, gamecube, even my home stereo are all silver! (all coincidental, the only one i purposely bought because of colour was the gamecube, because the black and indigo were ugly.)
i'll post more of the little things latah, so i don't have some huge mega-post.
this thread is where you post happy things. it can be the little things in life that make you happy, good news you've gotten, anything.
**WARNING: LONG POST ABOUT MY NEW PHONE AHEAD**
i'll go first: i thought i'd have to pay a huge fee to cancel my old one, and it turns out my contract expired this week, so as long as i cancel by friday, i won't have to pay any fees! that and the fact i will be getting huge rebates on it, i'm so happy.
i love the switch from cingular to t-mobile. since i've never really had to call customer service for either company, i only really have experienced the people working at the local stores. i'll take each at a time:
both stores are like a mile from my house. they're about the same distance apart, it's just one you turn left on the main road, the other you turn right.
ANYWAY...the local cingular store. asshole supreme is the best way to describe them. they're condescending and rude. it's like they assume you are the lowest common denominator (remember this is in-person visits to the store itself, not tech support or anything where they can't see you and have to assume you're lying about when you say you're doing something). they've try to lie to me in the past with things. they were nice enough to offer to change our billing date and failing to tell us that it would extend our contract. they essentially told me my cell phone insurance was pointless.
my original phone kept shutting itself off even when it was fully charged. after driving out to the redneck ghetto (with white trash people driving pintos instead of bling-blings driving pimp-mobiles) twice to get the battery tightened, it appeared the phone was just fucked. methinks it has to do with the fact that it's a nokia. they seem to work all right for a while, and then wimp out after a couple years. i had to get the phone replaced. it was unreliable, and i have the phone mainly for security reasons. walking around a dark campus at six in the morning scared me, since the security phones are few and far between (walking across the entire campus i'd see two).
so, i had cell phone insurance. since the phone wasn't broken really (since i'm sure a little tweaking by nokia or cingular would render it normal again), i was assuming i could get a replacement for free. i wasn't expecting to get the ultra deluxe phone 3000, i was looking at the model similar to mine, but newer, cuz mine wasn't offered anymore, at least not through them. to buy it new was even the same price as mine was when i got it! it was like $20 with contract, the same as mine.
well, they tell me not so. apparantely my cell phone insurance was worthless, i had to pay $35 to replace it - more than the phone itself! so i begrudginly did it.
also, when my husband was added on, they said the activation fee would be waived, and all that crap. essentially, he'd just be charged for the phone and plan. nuh uh! luckily, we had it in writing so we could get the charges taken off. assholes.
anyway, onto t-mobile. the girl at the store was so nice to me. i went in to change my plan. i'd bought the phone and plan through amazon.com to get the phone almost free (t-mobile was offering a $50 rebate, amazon.com was offering an additional $200 rebate, so after i got the checks the phone would cost me only $50). however, they didn't offer a lot of the plans available, so i had to sign up for one that was expensive and had way more minutes than i'd ever need. even with the three of us (me, my mom, and my husband) sharing minutes we didn't even use this many (1000)!!
turns out all i had to do was call customer service. she was super nice and even called them for me! i had a password and i didn't know that, and she was nice enough to tell me without raking me over the coals first for being a moron and not knowing (it wasn't listed in any e-mails i got, the phone package, nothing). i get internet access for free the first month, lots of cool freebies. apprantely i can cancel after that too, it's not like i have to keep the access to get the first month free. so i think i may do that. if i need movie times i have the hotline number, i don't think i need to check my horoscope when i'm not at home.
so i'm all happy about that. my phone's also a pretty silver colour, so i like that. it matches everything else i own. my computer, television, gamecube, even my home stereo are all silver! (all coincidental, the only one i purposely bought because of colour was the gamecube, because the black and indigo were ugly.)
i'll post more of the little things latah, so i don't have some huge mega-post.
my cell phone.
i think it knew what i was going to say)
