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TheMadSwede
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join:2001-01-30
Holland, MI
·Charter Pipeline

reply to Nightwchtr
Re: Once again....

said by Nightwchtr See Profile:
...this kind of switch and bait BS is getting old...
You need to bait before you can switch. But anyhow...

Providers need to have some sort of foresight as far as establishing their plans. A bigger problem than them backpedaling on their originally offered plans is that they didn't stop to think that someone would go bandwidth/call/download crazy if they made something unlimited. If they'd stop and think about the future for once instead of being giddy beyond belief with the idea of new subscribers and more dough, then stuff like this wouldn't happen.
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Sure would be nice to be eligible for broadband..any kind of broadband.


Mashiki
Balking The Enemy's Plans

join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON
·Bright House
·Rogers Hi-Speed

said by TheMadSwede See Profile:
You need to bait before you can switch. But anyhow...

Providers need to have some sort of foresight as far as establishing their plans. A bigger problem than them backpedaling on their originally offered plans is that they didn't stop to think that someone would go bandwidth/call/download crazy if they made something unlimited. If they'd stop and think about the future for once instead of being giddy beyond belief with the idea of new subscribers and more dough, then stuff like this wouldn't happen.

You even said it yourself, that is a bait and switch.


trparky
Bite My Shiny Metal Ass
Premium,MVM
join:2000-05-24
Cleveland, OH
clubs:
·AT&T U-Verse

Once again, we need what is above. BS, jese, can't we just get rid of it?

Unlimited means just that, unlimited, not what you think. Until the dictionary says otherwize, unlimited in my book means, without any limit of any kind.
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WedgeAntilles250


TheMadSwede
Premium
join:2001-01-30
Holland, MI
·Charter Pipeline

reply to Mashiki
said by Mashiki See Profile:
You even said it yourself, that is a bait and switch.
And?

My first point was that it's called bait and switch, not switch and bait.

My second point was that they wouldn't have to look back and scramble to think of some legal crap to cover their rears when realize that they're operating illegally if they would just take the time to think through the decisions they make in the first place. Wouldn't you prefer that they make good decisions that they don't have to weasel out of than what is happening right now?

I think some folks around here seriously prefer when a company screws up just so they can bash them.
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Sure would be nice to be eligible for broadband..any kind of broadband...and don't tell me about satellite.

lesopp

join:2001-06-27
Land O Lakes, FL
This what happens when you hire wiz kids that do not know squat about the product.


Eat Me

join:2002-09-25
Sussex, NJ
reply to trparky
LOL thats funny. Are you batman by any chance?

moonpuppy

join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL

reply to TheMadSwede
said by TheMadSwede See Profile:

I think some folks around here seriously prefer when a company screws up just so they can bash them.

We bash them not so much for screwing up but for changing the rules mid-game. Don't sell us one thing and then say, "OOOPS, sorry. We need to reduce our responsibility but we won't reduce the price."

What VZ did was not think through their decision. They wanted to get in the game so badly, they forgot to check the details. Someone at VZ screwed up big time.

I have seen cell phone companies advertise unlimited nights and weekends. So if I call a friend Friday at 9pm and leave the phone on and connected until Monday at 5am, is that wrong? No because that is what they offered me. If they want to limit me then don't give me unlimited and then redo my yearly contract. You promised, now deliver.
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