Posted by The Real Bev on June 3, 2010, 11:57 pm
I've recently gotten spam text messages on my pre-paid T-Mobile account, which
cost me a nickel each. Outrageous. I phoned tech support. The first guy was
barely able to speak English and hung up on me after 4 minutes. The second guy
was OK and set my account up so that I would NOT receive marketing messages.
What a crappy system. You're assumed to WANT to pay for spam unless you call
and tell them different.
I shouldn't complain, though. It costs me $10/year now and I'll probably never
use up my minutes. Still...
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Posted by NancyR on June 5, 2010, 6:44 pm
> I've recently gotten spam text messages on my pre-paid T-Mobile account,
> which cost me a nickel each. Outrageous. I phoned tech support. The
> first guy was barely able to speak English and hung up on me after 4
> minutes. The second guy was OK and set my account up so that I would NOT
> receive marketing messages.
> What a crappy system. You're assumed to WANT to pay for spam unless you
> call and tell them different.
> I shouldn't complain, though. It costs me $10/year now and I'll probably
> never use up my minutes. Still...
What plan do you have that is $10 a year?
Nancy
Posted by The Real Bev on June 6, 2010, 1:57 am
On 06/05/10 15:44, NancyR wrote:
>> I've recently gotten spam text messages on my pre-paid T-Mobile account,
>> which cost me a nickel each. Outrageous. I phoned tech support. The
>> first guy was barely able to speak English and hung up on me after 4
>> minutes. The second guy was OK and set my account up so that I would NOT
>> receive marketing messages.
>>
>> What a crappy system. You're assumed to WANT to pay for spam unless you
>> call and tell them different.
>>
>> I shouldn't complain, though. It costs me $10/year now and I'll probably
>> never use up my minutes. Still...
> What plan do you have that is $10 a year?
Cheap prepaid. Once you've bought $100 worth of minutes, from then on they all
roll over as long as you buy $10 worth (maybe 30 minutes or so) each year.
I've got 800 minutes now, and I don't make more than 4 calls a month ("Hi,
there's traffic, I'll be a little late."), rarely that. On a per-minute basis
it's not particularly cheap, but on a per-year basis you can't find anything
better.
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> which cost me a nickel each. Outrageous. I phoned tech support. The
> first guy was barely able to speak English and hung up on me after 4
> minutes. The second guy was OK and set my account up so that I would NOT
> receive marketing messages.
> What a crappy system. You're assumed to WANT to pay for spam unless you
> call and tell them different.
> I shouldn't complain, though. It costs me $10/year now and I'll probably
> never use up my minutes. Still...