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Another Reason To Ban Sprint PCS:

I finally got my phone, and I saved $50…

Left work and headed to the Sprint store to pick up a Sanyo SCP-5300 camera phone… I got there and waited on line for an hour… I asked for the phone and the guy there down-right refused to sell it to me. I had to have it activated there on the spot… Now after what I went through before, the last thing I wanted was some salesguy playing with my phone before me! Rather than being polite and apologizing to me, he was snotty and rude, so I got his DM’s name and the number for corporate (which all he gave me was Sprint PCS Customer Service)…. The operator thought the whole situation was weird and tried to talk the manager into selling it to me, but he still refused, and only being able to send me the phone in 3 to 5 days, I thanked her, filed a complaint against the store, and hung up. At least she tried to help!

I headed to a few retil stores that had Sprint. Spoke with a Thomas in Best Buy… This guy rocks… he actually called one of his vendors trying to track down the phone for me. Unfortunately Sprint stopped distributing this phone to retail outlets so I had to find someone with one in-stock. He did point me towards PC Richards who I didn’t even know sold SprintPCS…

Thank god they did! I called up the store around the block from my house to see if they had it, and sure enough, they did! I flew over there and on the counter, for me, was a box… a sprint phone… the Sanyo 8100.. AAAAAAAAARRRRGGHHHH

Well, Was just an accident.. Grabbed the wrong box 🙂 They had it… AND it was $50 cheaper than the Sprint Store or Radio Shack wanted for it!

So, The phone’s charging… Maybe I’ll post some pics from it.. After all, for now it’s now my only digital camera…. Well, I have that cheap POS camera somewhere, but I never liked it. ‘least the phone has a preview mode so I can see the pic and know whether or not it came out!

Interesting situation at Radio Shack just now.

I called to see if they had the Sanyo 5300 cellphone in stock. I specifically asked if it was a new phone. I was assured that it was, so I headed over there to get it.

The phone was missing most of the packaging and had fingerprints on the screen.

They offered me a lame 10% off after admitting that it was a demonstration model. I said no, and they offered to get a new phone.

I accepted the offer and showed up later to check the “new” phone. The serial # on the box was different, the packaging seemed to all be there, but the bag the phone’s body came in had a hole indicating that the phone had been removed. When i commented they said that it was opened to check the phone, but for all I Know, this could have been the phone they tried to give me prior.

So, I walked out without a phone. Is it really worth losing a $300 sale to lie to your customers?

While making arrangements to p/u the “new” phone, they asked me to pay in advance. Thank god I said no.

YAY! I just got a (another) large screen TV! I was so upset when my 1st one died, but this one is newer, and takes up less space (And may even be a bit bigger)

How is that you ask? This one is not in a huge wooden cabinet (In fact, it only took 2 of us to carry it out of my friend’s basement and into my house…. Unlike the old one that took two people to carny out to the curb AFTER disassembling the whole thing!

Now if I can just get it into place. I guess it would have been easier to get the old furniture OUT first 🙂

Its’ really cool…. an old coworker of mine (from the movie theatre) recognized my name on Geocaching.com….. We’re talkin’ again, reminiscing about the old days. It’s really cool to see that people you knew in the past come back around and somehow, strangely, your brought back together in a completely different scenario than before.

Isn’t it odd how life works sometimes…

I hate it when you dont check your email for 2 or 3 days and you have 982 emails in your inbox! Thats not counting my other 5 email accounts that I use for various online activities/websites.