DH ran his cell phone over

My husband ran his expensive cell phone over (on accident...seriously). Yeah, I know...I am not going to say anything more than that, lol.

I found him a free flip phone from somebody else that they weren't using. It was a bit beat up looking, it didn't have a QWERTY keyboard (which he now insists on having despite years of not having one of those until this year), and it could only be charged in the car. Yeah, guess it was a bit difficult but it worked and it was free. It's not like he's on it for hours every day...or even an hour everyday. Not good enough. He wanted a new phone.

It was more expensive to buy a new, replacement phone for him than to add another line to our family plan so that is what we did so he can get a new phone. DH gets a brand new phone (a "touch" phone similar to what "I" wanted...grumble, grumble) with a new phone number and we now have a 4th line on our plan. Maybe I should go run my phone over eh?

Actually, he was willing to swap phones with me so I could have that Touch but I decided not to. Why? Because I want the Instinct when the price comes down, that's why (and didn't want dh to martyr himself)!

Advantage: Now dh's old line is going to our son (though he doesn't know it yet...might save it as a xmas present...haven't decided yet). After deciding this, I was able to get our son a brand new phone for nothing after rebate so he'll now get a brand new phone since dh's old line was eligible for upgrading to a certain dollar amount. We should've just done that for dh right instead of getting a 4th line? Well, yeah, but he wouldn't get a QWERTY keyboard with that one... *sigh* Spoiled?

I still want to run my phone over so I can get an Instinct!!! Kidding. I'll wait patiently for the price to come down and for all of our bills to be paid to get this awesome new phone (think Apple's iPhone but not an Apple).

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Sprint Cell Phone Service

I used to be a Sprint customer several years ago (before they merged with Nextel). I never had any problems with them then but we moved to an area where service wasn't all that great. So we ended up with a different wireless company for a couple of years. In January, we switched back to Sprint for our wireless. I had liked them before and wasn't happy with the Verizon service we'd been paying for (bad service in our area). I must say that since going back to Sprint, it has been one problem after another. I can't get the same answer out of five different sprint representatives (I mean, don't they KNOW their product?). I get charged for things that I shouldn't be. When I received a $501 bill, I about went through the roof! If this keeps up, I am going to become their worst nightmare because I refuse to pay for some of the stupidity I have run across when trying to get them to straighten out their messes and give me ONE straight answer - not different answers depending on who I talk to! So far, Sprint has been nothing but horrid customer service, inept representatives who don't know their product, and more money than it should've been.

Then, (yes, there is a THEN), I received ANOTHER bill from Sprint for cell phone service in my name, at a number I had no clue about with a threat for disconnection if I didn't pay it. Outrageous!

My Rating for Sprint: 1 star (out of 10)

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