Success!!!! Keeping SERO $49 plan!!!!!! - Page 4

sikclown · #31 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 04:32 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBundo

On SERO? And/or without the $10 fee (which we accepted, so the claim they don't know, and "trust" we know the plan system is bogus)?

No not on SERO. On a Business 200 plan ( basically just 200 minutes). And yes without the 10.00 fee... But like I said it told we I would have to have one of a few plans or compatible. To me compatible would be unlimited data, text, etc and the 10.00 Premium... So There is an argument there. Playing the Devil's Advocate as always though Sprint was pretty upfront about what you would need to have for this phone. Either way... Definitely good luck to you.

**TheBundo** · #32 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by sikclown

No not on SERO. On a Business 200 plan ( basically just 200 minutes). And yes without the 10.00 fee... But like I said it told we I would have to have one of a few plans or compatible. To me compatible would be unlimited data, text, etc and the 10.00 Premium... So There is an argument there. Playing the Devil's Advocate as always though Sprint was pretty upfront about what you would need to have for this phone. Either way... Definitely good luck to you.

Sprint has been vague and contradictory in press releases (evidence the Dan Hesse issue), and who says anyone needs to have any info channel from Sprint? Did this just come from Sprint through the media? Did they ever call or email me about the EVO? NO, they never did. And how can I be expected to have a better info channel from Sprint than Best Buy? Best Buy made me answer a bunch of things, including my wifes SS#, DRIVERS LICENSE # and Expiration (I guess you need to be able to drive to get it, though you can't drive and talk on it, except on Bluetooth), and you are claiming that with that need for personal data, AND their ability to check it all in 90 seconds (can YOU do that?), they don't know what they are doing? Well, I guess there is a price for ignorance.

**gTen** · #33 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 04:54 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBundo

(I guess you need to be able to drive to get it, though you can't drive and talk on it, except on Bluetooth).

Not true..if you don't drive you can get a "None Drivers License" which pretty much is a drivers license but doesn't give you license to drive...aka simply an ID card...

supdawg · #34 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 05:08 AM

Most e-commerce sites have disclaimers on the site stating something like they can refuse to honor a price for various reasons. And in the US, there really ain't chit you can do about legally ( and win).

IF their site let you do it, they don't have to activate, and no amount of screen shots will change that fact.

sikclown · #35 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 05:09 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBundo

Sprint has been vague and contradictory in press releases (evidence the Dan Hesse issue), and who says anyone needs to have any info channel from Sprint? Did this just come from Sprint through the media? Did they ever call or email me about the EVO? NO, they never did. And how can I be expected to have a better info channel from Sprint than Best Buy? Best Buy made me answer a bunch of things, including my wifes SS#, DRIVERS LICENSE # and Expiration (I guess you need to be able to drive to get it, though you can't drive and talk on it, except on Bluetooth), and you are claiming that with that need for personal data, AND their ability to check it all in 90 seconds (can YOU do that?), they don't know what they are doing? Well, I guess there is a price for ignorance.

Hold on... I never once said Best buy didn't know what they were doing. I said earlier that the third parties essentially screwed up by not flashing the same screen that Sprint does when you purchase the phone with an incompatible plan therefore that is who the problem should be with on that
end. Next.. I was basically saying that you have a valid argument because it seems to me that the sero plans are very cheap plans that offer unlimited data etc so the only reason Sprint has not to activate is because they don't want to. Not sure what you read in my post to elicit that response. Were you calling me ignorant?

**TheBundo** · #36 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 05:11 AM

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Originally Posted by gTen

Not true..if you don't drive you can get a "None Drivers License" which pretty much is a drivers license but doesn't give you license to drive...aka simply an ID card...

Yeah, I know. I've been licensed since age 14, as I grew up in South Dakota. By the time I hit 16, I had driven in 33 states, and most major cities in the country. In those days, there was full recoginition of other states licensing policies, and they were respected everywhere. Now, here in CA for instance, they repect licenses that meet their minimum standards for their own citizens. This is a big issue with Concealed Carry Permits now too. I have permits good in 30+ states, but not everywhere. You have to know a ton of individual state laws. It's stupid. Bring back the good old days..........

cubbieswin · #37 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 05:58 AM

I think TheBundo is a tool. I'm all for getting a good deal etc, but you, my friend, are an informed consumer looking for a loophole to pull one over on Sprint. You, and others like you, are the reasons why the rest of us regular customers have a hard with even modest requests of customer service.

**TheBundo** · #38 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by cubbieswin

I think TheBundo is a tool. I'm all for getting a good deal etc, but you, my friend, are an informed consumer looking for a loophole to pull one over on Sprint. You, and others like you, are the reasons why the rest of us regular customers have a hard with even modest requests of customer service.

Whatever a "tool" means, I think it's derogatory, and I think I have socks and business experience older than you. It may be a loophole, but so what?

And I'm not some little pansy, if you knew who I am, you might bite your tongue. I may let loose some photos soon, so you all know, taken with folks like Muhammed Ali, Evander Holyfield, Rosie O'Donnell, and so forth. I'm a big player and have been for decades, and for a pipsqueak to call me a "tool" is not going to stand un-challenged.

I'm a member of The Recording Academy, you know, The Grammys..............

**TheBundo** · #39 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 06:36 AM

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Originally Posted by supdawg

Most e-commerce sites have disclaimers on the site stating something like they can refuse to honor a price for various reasons. And in the US, there really ain't chit you can do about legally ( and win).

IF their site let you do it, they don't have to activate, and no amount of screen shots will change that fact.

I doubt that means I have to give the phone back

**nrfitchett4** · #40 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBundo

I have a suit if they won't activate, and then try to charge full price. We will NOT be the ones who aren't trying to activate it, if anything, it will be them refusing. There certainly is a contract with Best Buy here. They may have an issue with Sprint, but they'll resolve that easily. But they won't get the phone back, nor be able to charge full price, if they, and/or who they represent fail to fulfill the deal. And as I said in another post, we'll drop the "SERO" as long as the price matches, even if it ends after the 2 year period (which SERO wouldn't). How does that sound for fairness and compromise?

and when you don't change your plan and activate it, they will blacklist that esn and you won't be able to sell it either.
But it is a pretty cool paperweight.