I don’t know why I’ve stayed with them for so long. Better the deviil you know I guess . The damn company nickle and dimes me for everything. My phone has a memory card, it plays music but verizon won’t allow me to use any of my songs as a ring tone, they insist I use ‘get it now’ and pay $2.99/tone. Of course this is easily remedied by using bitpim – but it’s the principle.
Ever friggin thing verizon offers is a subscription, which of course is an extra monthly fee of $2.99/month, unless of course you subscribe to their premium service which costs an arm and a leg – plans start at $139/month/phone sharing 700 minutes – but gps is included and it’s an unlimited data plan.
This month some horoscope subscription appeared on hubby’s phone. Now hubby can make a phone call and receive one, read a txt message, but not send, jhc he barely knows how to turn the phone on so I know he didn’t subscribe to a spammy horoscope site – but there it was, and fight as I did, verizon dipshits refused to remove the charge because it was on the phone, someone subscribed, and there was nothing they could do. FUCK YOU!
What’s gotten my goat this month is their newly introduced ‘visual voice’ enhancement. It was all the buzz. Basically it allows you to view your voice mail like text messages, (if you have an ipohne you know what I’m talking about) see who’s calling, what time they called, and gives you the ability to listen to those voice messages in the order you want. COOL!
Word was it was an enhancement and free. It very briefly appeared on their website as a free download and nothing indicating there was any extra charge. It was talked about in howard forums, featured on engadget – and then it disappeared off the face of the earth, there was nothing featured on the vz website for days – then I found it today.
It’s billed a free app but they’ll charge you for airtime while it’s being downloaded to the phone but before you download it you have to go to a verizon store and update the firmware because for some reason you can’t do it over the air like most updates. Then you have to subscribe, and you guessed it, it’s $2.99/month – even if you have a premium account. WTF!?
I’m sick of the greedy bastids – my contract is up and M’s is up in February. I’ll cancel both those accounts and get hubby the cheapest plan available until his contract is up. I’m sick of them.
