Adventures with my Sprint phone!
A couple months back I decided to finally dump Cingular which had been perfectly fine when they were AT&T.
Once they merged or conjoined or whatever, they turned into total crap. No signal, no customer service, no help, until I threaten to leave and cut off my service, then they want to move the moon and stars for me.
Nope, Sorry, Screw you.
So, I went into the Sprint store and picked up a nice Samsung A920 with camera, video and mp3 player. The new girl at the store screws up the paper work so they have to assign me a new phone number. No problem.
A clean start is always good. I had dealt with Sprint before so I knew they were fairly reputable. No sooner do I get my phone outside, when I start getting bill collector calls for an Irene Cardenas. Not just one or two but dozens. After talking to her collection agencies I figure its all straightened out.
But Nooooo.
This Irene was some kind of hootchie mama, skip out on bills, wanted by Dawg the bounty hunter chick. The calls keep rolling in from her one night stands, other hoochies sending drunken slut text messages about having hot crotch, more bill collectors, bail bondsmen, and lawyers.
I should have immediately changed my number, but I got stubborn instead. I returned every call with "Don't know who this bitch is but don't call again"
Soon after, Sprint calls me up trying to collect Irene's overdue cell phone bill. "I told them" hey dudes, look at your records this number is not me. Take me off the list."
They told me they can't stop the collection on my number and don't know how. I went up the ladder and talked to every fucking sombitch at Sprint who told me there is nothing they can do. At that exact moment, Sprint is calling my phone with some automated bill collection system that is asking for Irene's personal info. This information is required to speak to a representative. I don't know Irene's personal goddamn info so the sodding automated system hung up on me before I could get satisfaction or talk to a human.
I finally called the harassment line and some guy from Bombay says:
/Apu / Yes you are getting notice for bill thanks you.
Me: Not my bill. It belongs to the old owner of number.
/Apu/ Yes you are getting calls from bills
Me: Yes please make it stop
/Apu/ Why are you calling harassment?
Me: Cause it won't stop
/Apu/ Ok Billing stop calling on your bill payment
Me: It's not my bill
/Apu/ Thank you come again.
Apu must have accidentally hit the right button because the Sprint calls stopped. Others keep calling. Watch out assholes. It's personal now.
Labels: Personal interest, Rants
posted by Bill Rowland @ December 09, 2006
13 Comments
13 Comments:
hilarious.
I needed a cell phone like I needed another fucking hole in my head for things to leak out of. But I bought one for some stupid fucking reason I can't comprehend.
I have tons of minutes that I will never frigging use. But maybe that is just me, what in the hell do YOU need a cell phone for?
Are you going to use it to make the world a better place? Just wondering.
BBC: I have it because I have kids in school and the nurse is always calling me about bloody noses, puking and skinned knees. I'm also on the road quite a bit in the summer. Mostly it's just sitting there doing nothing.
I got a cell phone several years ago because there had been several times when it was important for someone in my family to get a hold of me, my sister was going out a lot and I wanted her to call me if she ever needed somethign and couldn't get our parents, and it seemed better to get a cell phone than to keep having to track down a phone when paged. Now, it's my primary phone. The house phone is for our dial up, the cell is for phone calls. The only calls I've ever gotten that weren't for me we honest wrong numbers from someone who hit a wrong digit.
I have a Verizon pre-paid... no text, no downloads, no contract. I get calls and can make calls, nights and weekends free, and I go in and pay every month. If I ever stop doing that, no problem. They'll end my service, but there won't be anything else to deal with.
I don't know where my cell is. It's been missing for hmmm, a few weeks maybe. I'm on my husbands plan and generally charge it up just to let the battery die without using it. I hate talking on the phone.
You've got more patience than me bro...
I'd either took it back and literally chewed some rear at an actual person and/or threw it at them or simply just chucked into the near-by woods.
Were you under some sort of contract with that situation? I'd demanded some sort of free service for awhile or something for that aggravation.
I have one but won't use it much. I hate telephones, the messengers, icq. This is really about the only form of communication I enjoy.
Hey it isn’t all bad, I mean if you hook up with Irene it's probably a done deal. Just make sure you hide your wallet.
Phoenix: I'm tempted to dump my home phone but my cell isn't reliable enough for emergencies.
Jeannie: I've lost more cell phones than I can remember. I wish they had emergency locators.
Gunz: I got my phone free for signing up for 2 years. I learned my lesson.
phosgene: One of the text messages I got at 2AM: "Hurry call the police! There is some hot hootchie pussy on the streets tonight bitch!"
I responded with: "This is the police we have her phone and tell her we are looking for her."
Turns out she was wanted by the cops and her boyfriend too..lol who knew.
You could try this method...
My Sprint story:
Sprint sucks nine times from Sunday and I hate them, so here is ONE story of their suckage:
I got a Sprint cell phone.
I returned it 12 hours later and canceled the contract
(I had 3 days to do so)
I made ONE one-minute phone call to time and temperature to see if it worked before i returned the phone and canceled.
And the rate for service was 30 bucks per month. (this included free nights and weekends, and my one-minute call was placed after 9PM)
So in theory, I owed these fuckers like, 50 cents, right?
Well, about a week after I canceled service (after 12 hours) I got my Sprint bill for $3.81...
So I think, I will call them and straighten this out. Except you have to have, not only your personal information, but an ACCOUNT that is open and active in order to get to a human being on the other end.
So now? every 2 weeks or so, I get a collections notice for the $3.81 from the fucked up company of Sprint.
Have fun getting fucked over. It's what they do best.
That Tom Mabe bit was excellent
thanx OTIS!!
Good gracious. I would have change the number immediatley.
With my old cell phone number, it was alright until this bugger started callimg me asking for someone else. It happened many times, but since it was pretty harmless, I thought it was still okie to deal with it.
That was until he called me at 6am in the morning. I used to sleep between 5-8am in the morning, and calling me at 6am was a really big deal. I screamed at him, until he hung up. I called him and continue screaming until I was satisfied, went back to sleep, and lorge a police complaint. This apparently help to make him stop calling me from then on.
Give 'em hell, hammer!
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