$4.42 EVERY MONTH SINCE 1952
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August 6th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
This was a very interesting article. I had no idea that you could even lease a phone at all, the concept is, well, older than I am I guess.
That aside, I might be heartless a little, but I really don’t see how this guy was taken advantage of. He is old, yes, but he has had this going on since 1952, at some point between then and now the man must have known that he could buy a phone. It sucks for him that he didn’t, I mean, who wants to pay $3,000 for a phone? I am more shocked that people still have rotary phones. I mean, how do you push one and push two when calling those annoying 1-800 numbers? I remember when they gave the choice “or just stay on the line and an operator will be with you shortly” but I haven’t heard that in years.
I just paid $550.00 for my cell phone, and they told me at Sprint that I had to sign up for the “Power Vision” pack, so I did, and then later found out that they had lied to me and that I was paying $15 more per month than I needed to, and many of the plan’s features wouldn’t even work with my type of phone. Then the same thing happened to my father in law with the same phone, only they piled even more crap onto his plan, like GPS navigation, and our phones are not GPS enabled.
Phone companies suck. Period.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
yeah.. for some reason, it would cost me like $600 just to update my phone, and I’ve had the same one for like 2 years… AND I’ve been with the Sprint company for like 5 years. odd?
i might switch to AT&T soon, because i heard they are much better.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
No way. If you tell them you want the full $150 credit for your phone or you are leaving the company, they will give you the credit, but they will also make you sign a new 2 year agreement. I really despise Sprint’s customer service and I really don’t like any of their phones, but I do have to say that their network is better than anyone else’s I have seen so far. They have really great coverage(hardly any roaming) and very few dropped calls… unless you are in my condo, AKA The Sprint Void, I get no reception here.
August 7th, 2007 at 6:54 am
“This was a very interesting article. I had no idea that you could even lease a phone at all, the concept is, well, older than I am I guess.”
It goes back to the old days of AT&T prior to the breakup in the 80’s
It used to be that they “owned” the phone system from end to end, including the wiring inside your house and the phones that terminated the circut. They did this in the name of “ensuring quality”. The adjunct to this is that prior to then, NO ONE owned their home phones – EVERYONE had to lease them from AT&T. The trade off was that if there was a problem, they replaced it for free – same went for the wiring in your house.
It wasn’t until the late 80’s when you could go buy a phone from RadioShack for $20 that it because cheaper to buy a phone and toss it when it broke 6 months later than it was to lease one.