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I’ve been with my cell phone provider, T-Mobile for six years.  That’s right, <\/span>SIX flipping years<\/span><\/b>!  My contract ends next month.  I called T-Mobile yesterday to see what kind of deal they could give me for the Motorola Cliq  — being their loyal customer and all.  I’ve had a Blackberry Curve since 2008, and this is the longest I have ever used one phone.  I’m not half as bothered about the wear and tear on the phone as I am its functionality – or lack of it.  Randomly deleting my text messages and call records and shutting off (and refusing to come back on) is really more than I wish to deal with at this point.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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So what does T-Mobile offer me — after <\/span>congratulating<\/span><\/i> me for being their loyal customer? They offer me the phone for $149.99 (and this does not include the monthly data plan of $24.99 which I would now have to also pay).  The customer service lady had the effrontery to tell me that I was getting a better deal than new customers.  Really?!?!  New customers get to pay the same amount for the phone and data plan — except, of course, that they also get to pay the one-time $35 connection fee.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So there, you have it.  For being a loyal customer to T-mobile, I get to pay $35 less than a brand new customer.  <\/span>Isn’t that wonderful<\/span><\/i>?  By 2016, I’ll get to pay $70 less!  Whoop-tee-doo!  Just the deal I have been waiting for all my life.  Oh, the supervisor also included what he dared to call a <\/span>tempting offer<\/span><\/i>: <\/span><\/b>$30 off my next bill.  Yeah, whatever.  I am a very, very dissatisfied customer, and I will tell anyone that cares to know that <\/span>T-Mobile SUCKS!!!<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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…And no, I don’t feel better after venting.  I’m really just so frustrated.  You have no idea.<\/span><\/div>\n

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