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OK, so I got my bad ass phone, yes.  I also signed up for a years service with Verizon to get the thing, with a 20% employee discount on account of working for a company that finangled a 20% employee discount with Verizon, so I got a reduced price on the phone and the service.

Good deal, right?

Yeah, I thought so too.  Until I got the ‘welcome’ thing in the mail a few days after getting and activating the phone, which had my contract end date as 1/2009.  “Hmm,” I thought “I’m not a mathematician, but that looks like a two year contract.”  I’m not necessarily adverse to a two year contract, but if thats what I get, I should have the two year discount on the phone, and shouldn’t have paid the activation fee, because thats what it says all big and black on the website I ordered the stuff through.
So, I sent em an email.  I said something to the effect of:

“Hey guy, there appears to be a problem with my dealy.  I believe that you’re either short a year, or short about a hundred bucks.  Go ahead and get with your people, and then straighten me out, and then I’ll continue going around happy”

And they replied (this is all paraphasing now):

“No.”

Well, thats a pisser.  So I took a screenshot of the website showing the price I paid as the 1 yr contract price, and a price significantly lower as the two year, and replied suggesting that perhaps they rethink the issue.

My response:

“You’re dumb.  No.”

Yeah, they told me that it clearly states that 249 is the two year price.  I opened up the screenshot again, just to make sure that the moonshine hasn’t dulled my senses, and no, it seems to be agreeing with my original point.  This was at 6 AM this morning, and my blood pressure started to rise.  That right eye started to twitch.  I started turning into the Hulk.

So, I called em, and talked to a sweet girl named Margaret.  She told me theres nothing she can do, that I should talk to the point of contact with the employer.

So, I sent him an email today.

Now, this is my problem.  By rights, I should cancel the contract, curse their mothers name, and set fire to the phone.  However, I really like the phone, and the monthly bill likes that 20% discount.  I hear good things, otherwise, about Verizon, so I’m holding off for now.

But damn.  I hate hate hate dealing with companies.  Corporations are the American evil.

Discuss amongst yourselves.  I need to find some gasoline and a match, just in case…