Cell Contracts
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Topic: Cell Contracts
Posted By: Dye Playa
Subject: Cell Contracts
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 8:48pm
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Any good ways to break them? Nextel has me by the balls and I want out, to switch over to Verizon.
I tried calling, but the only options they gave me were to: a) pay $200 for a cancellation fee. b) sell the contract on a 3rd party website It friggin' sucks too because my brother just got a new phone a few months ago, so the contract got renewed then. My dad is the carrier, so I got him to call and fake financial problems, but that didn't work. I was looking online and some people said that if they can't produce a copy of the contract (which they often times can't), the contract is void, so I will try that tomorrow. I also heard that if they change something (ex: text messaging prices) that it voids it, but an article countered that by saying they only cancel if it has a dramatic affect on your bill  . Maybe Rambs, a smart legal person, or anyone who went through this can help me out.
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Replies:
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 8:51pm
| Fake your own death. |
Posted By: benttwig33
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 8:55pm
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^^ And collect the insurance.....from yourself. ------------- Sig is WAY too big. |
Posted By: Susan Storm
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 9:17pm
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Or you could honor the contract you agreed to? ------------- "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." |
Posted By: sinisterNorth
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 9:20pm
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Cowboy up.
------------- Pumpker'd; (V.) When a pump player runs up and shoots you at point blank range because you thought 20bps made you good. |
Posted By: Emike Mobile
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 9:22pm
Shut Up. ------------- 
Emike/Dgafmuffinz/ILP on da MOTO-Q |
Susan Storm wrote:Posted By: Susan Storm
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 9:24pm
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Now that was rather rude and unnecessary, don't you think? ------------- "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 9:26pm
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"lose" ur phone. thats how i got out of mine. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 11:12pm
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My mom just goes in and yells a lot, I mean a lot and they usually end up
saying ok. Not only do you get out of the contract, but you also get to see your family member get angry at a high school student. If I didn't mention you have to go to the store to do this, it doesn't work over the phone. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 11:14pm
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Pay the $200 because you signed a contract?
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Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 02 January 2008 at 11:34pm
| Verizon FTW |
Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 12:27am
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Switch to the cheapest possible plan without having to renew the contract, then put the phone in a drawer?
Or just pay the fee |
Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 7:17am
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 7:56am
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Why are you trying to get out of your contract?
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 2:14pm
Because nextel sucks, and verizon is better. And they have better phones, and all verizon calls are free. I know a guy that owns a cell phone store, so I might try and go down there and see what he can do. -------------
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 2:55pm
Be glad you don't have Sprint? -------------
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Posted By: ultimatetrooper
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 3:07pm
I HATE sprint. I'm inside the sprint store, roaming. They required updates so my phone would connect to the new towers, but that never helped. They said my phone was too old to use the new towers and I would need a new one. This is when I used a sprint store phone to call in and cancel my account. AT&T ftw. ------------- 
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Posted By: .357 Magnum
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 5:50pm
| My dad gets a deal with verizon through Ford. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 5:52pm
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ya ilike verizon, i have an EnV right now. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 6:19pm
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Posted By: xXK1CK1NVV1NGXx
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 9:56pm
My family has sprint to, I am roaming right now actually and I am sitting in my living room. It really makes me mad, because my phone uses tons of power while it is roaming. So I end up getting a little less than a days worth of time out of my razr which is complete junk to what all my other friends get, and there phones/batteries are older. ------------- <Sig violation, Section 1> |
Posted By: tippmannfreak
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 11:39pm
| well my buddy is gettin deployed, so his plan is put on some kind of "delayed" statuts so he only pays like seven buck a month to keep his number. i don't know if that would work for you though... it might drag your contract out... |
Posted By: holysmartone
Date Posted: 03 January 2008 at 11:53pm
| Helio FTW. |