But all these chicks are there to sell their place in line - at least that is what they are advertising on the little sheets of paper they are holding up.... Interesting. Any one got balls to call the one right at the front?
I so agree with you, here is the readers digest of the story. Dumb son, thinks he is a patriot and goes to a stupid war he does not understand where people use real bullets trying to defend their invaded country. In the old days we called them Freedom Fighters, now they are called Terrorist Son thinks he can make a lot of money doing what he does best, drinking beer, playing games and shooting some guns, he trained his skills on the Xbox you know. Son gets killed.... Dad thinks let's kill more of them, but really make a toy for the army so that I can make some money, I mean everyone and their dog is making money off this war why should it not be me. Plus, let's spin son's death into it to get some free publicity and my 5 minutes of fame.
Shit if someone came to my country and was 'trying to install American style democracy' I too would be fighting. Thanks but no thanks.
The same goes for Telus as soon as you complain enough with Telus and say the magic world they will send the retention hounds after you. I went from $140 plan to $60 with more options. 600 anytime minutes, unlimited incoming, 100 sms, advanced voice mails, call display and call waiting plus evening and weekends at 6:00 PM for one cool $60.00 So iphone or no iphone leaving this deal is hard. For 15 bucks I can throw in email and IM which i don't care. They made me sign a 1 year contract for that but since I was renewing early it ended up being 10 months. Sweet deal.
Well all contracts are evil. All advertised prices in Canada are based on 3 year contract. What is not advertised in the prices are the extras like 911 fee, network access fee one time set up fee, network set up fee etc.. and most regular plans do not include VM CD, etc... which is extra. On the top of this heap of crap you get evening and weekends that start at 9 pm unless you pay extra which it then brings it up to 6 or for a bit more 5pm. Also most unlimited incoming calls simply means someone calling you from the city you live in. If you get a call from outside of your calling area that counts against your outgoing minutes.
In short what this amounts to is: 1 year contract - you get screwed by a whole gay pride parade with no dicker shlider in and out everyday, night and day for 3 years 2 year contract - you get screwed by your dedicated 5 or 10 lovers 3 year contract - you still get screwed but they provide some grease to ease the pain.
on top of all that, if you are not signing a 3 year contract you don't have access to all the best plans available. So you get screwed yet again. Apparently Aug. 24 brings in charge for incoming SMS - so now we are going to be paying Telco's for spam. Sweet.
so there is a loop hole. Buy a phone on the cheapest plan available, cancel the contract and pay the $400 penalty, then do as you wish. Sweet, or they could just sell it for $600 and forego the wasted paper in contract creation and cancellation
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