Dec
30
Cell Phone Contracts
Filed Under Rants
So recently Jen and I realized that our cell phone coverage was far to expensive for us at this time. We are currently with NEXTEL or Sprint, whatever the hell they are calling themselves now. Anyway this leads me to the issue at hand Cell Phone Contracts.
Now these things have been around for a long time where if you sign X amount of your life away you get this great rate for that period of time. The problem here is that if you decide their service sucks ass (NEXTEL doesn’t work AT ALL during several parts of my morning and evening commute) you are pretty much screwed. It’s not that you can’t get out of the contract at all but the great thing is they make you shell out like $200+ dollars just so you can cancel your (Shitty) service. The greatest part about all this is that half the time you don’t sign shit but you are stuck in a contract.
So if we wanted to get new phones we would have to shell out $400 JUST TO SWITCH to a new provider. Needless to say I am skipping out in May when our contract(s) expire. We could get 2 plans for the cost of the ONE we have now. There is at least one other way to get out of these plans and that is to exchange your plan with some other poor soul using an online service such as Cell Trade USA but honestly that is kind of a pain in the ass.
Well that’s enough ranting for now, if you wish to do some research on Cell Phone Contracts just do a simple Google search can give you a bit more information. In case I don’t come back here until next year I hope everyone has a great new year!