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Verizon Wireless Android Phone Insurance is a Ripoff

NoLimitList.com — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:22:53 -07:00

In late April or early May I found out that I was wasting money on phone insurance from Verizon Wireless for no good reason when a Whirlpool washing machine destroyed my smartphone. After confirming with Verizon that my phone was covered by the insurance policy that I was paying $5 a month for I discovered that I would still have to buy a new phone for $90. They said that the payment was to cover the deductible, but when I buy insurance for a product I expect it to be replaced in full no matter how unconscionable the service agreement I have better things to do than read is. If I spend nearly $200 on a phone full of features I don't need or want and lose it 7 or 8 months later I expect to get a new one for free. I might be the kind of guy who would claim to have lost it to collect the insurance money if I had thought of it, but Verizon thought ahead me before I even realized what they were thinking ahead of, so they required me to send my phone back to prove that Whirlpool's washer destroyed it. Even then they refused to replace it as implied when I let the salesman at the store convince me to buy it just so that I wouldn't have to listen to that douchebag anymore. Now if I payed $40 over that period it might not match the retail price of the phone, but it sure as hell exceeds the manufacturing cost of such a device made in China for the benefit of the Communist Party. Obviously I was ripped off by Verizon Wireless when I paid money to insure a phone that they still charged more money to replace despite collecting enough from my insurance payments to cover replacement costs and for what? To support a company that has been and will always be linked to the Communist Party? Some company they are.
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Android Deleting Call Log & Messages Without Permission

NoLimitList.com — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:28:30 -07:00

I just found out that my Verizon Wireless Andriod smartphone has deleted all of my call logs and messages that have not been sent or received within the past 5 months without my permission. As a result I have lost an important number that could have come in handy for promoting my business. I know why this happened, why they did it, and how to prevent it from happening again. Verizon did this because they knew that my phone like any computer has limited memory and that if they never established a limit on storage that eventually its memory would get full and it would not be able to store new data. They could have just allowed the phones to store all call data until the storage device is full and instruct the user to delete data to free up memory, but their marketing people decided that most users would not like it. This is most likely due to flawed statistics weights the significance of all paying customers equally without realizing that some customer are more important than others. As someone who uses his phone to increase his own revenue I am more important that all Verizon customers who don't use their phone for commercial purposes are less important than any single customer who uses their phone to make money. They also know that many inferior customers they seek to serve are too stupid to understand simple direction asking them to select messages and call log entries that they would like deleted, that such stupidity is likely to result in calls made to customer service asking them how to do it because they can't read a sentence of few. As a result Verizon thinks that it is better for business to satisfy the stupidity of the masses than to manage its morons. The easiest way to avoid my predicament is to store important numbers elsewhere just in case you might not need them within the next 5 months. I could have done this since I already knew that my call and message logs probably would not last forever, but I decided not to out of principal. The principal that Verizon needs to consider the potential value of one record over the desire of many and because I know that by posting this here it will increase the value of my website at a time when I should still be able to recover the number by calling them, logging into my Verizon account, or checking my emails. I also did it because even though I knew better I just forgot. Now I am suffering because of the stupid people who serve the idiots lack my genius and yes, I am a genius. I know that I am a genius because the last time I gave myself an IQ test I scored over a thousand and that make me more smarter than you.
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Comcast On Demand Just in 24 Hour Rental Ripoff

NoLimitList.com — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:16:33 -07:00

Comcast On Demand for Just movies is a 24 hour ripoff for $5.99 that I found out about the hard way earlier today when a friend of mine came over who had yet to see X-Men: First Class. I told him that I had rented it yesterday, watched it, and thought it was alright, but not worth buying. He still wanted to watch it, so I found it in my Xfinity TV On Demand menu and noticed that I would have to pay another $5.99 just so his fat ass could watch it because it had been more than 24 hours since I rented it. This cold have been worse if it were not for the fact that he was already going to be at my place for a different reason, so this was not a special trip that he made. When I told him that he was SOL on the X-Men movie he was disappointed, but just went about his day as planned. I realize that $5.99 isn't much money, its cheaper than going out to see a movie, its HD quality is better than anything I could hope to find on Pirate Bay without the risk of viruses, and On Demand is more convenient than going to a video store, waiting for it to arrive in the mail from Netflix, or trying your luck with one of those Red Box vending machines. Still when the movie is already out on video you should get more than 24 hours of access for $5.99 especially considering the fact that no physical merchandise is involved. 24 hours for $5.99 is a ripoff.
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