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by leo on October 16, 2007
T-Mobile is experiencing the increasing power of fed up mobile subscribers. According to Information Week, the california supreme court recently gave a go-signal preventing the leading mobile company from locking mobile phones and collecting early termination fees worth $200.

Moreover, T-Mobile subscribers request the company to unlock their mobile phones in case they want to switch to another carrier.

Moreover, T-Mobile subscribers request the company to unlock their mobile phones in case they want to switch to another carrier.
Cellular carriers are known as gatekeepers because they lock phones to keep subscribers on their networks, they disable features like voice-over-IP to prevent subscribers from making cheaper phone calls, and they keep subscribers using their services for an extended period of time by including hefty termination fees in their contracts.The outcome of this case can drastically alter the existing annoying policies of the leading mobile carriers across the country. This will also strengthen the new Cell Phone Consumer Empowerment Act of 2007.
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Response from:
Diana
(02/18/08 1:43am)
To Robert Dotson.....(CEO of TMobile/Canada and US)
As a psychologist, I have figured out what your company is doing. It is called extortion....and use of psychological manipulation in order to get me to pay and pay and pay and pay...for a phone I didn't order, and for service that doesn't work, and for charges that I do not owe...and keep on the line, wasting my time, until I do pay. I know what you are doing.
Just look at the history of this phone number: 786-521-9005....and tell me why I should remain a customer?
To sign a contract is a two-way street. A contract means, I pay, and you provide a service. If you do not provide a service, then you either reimburse me, or do not charge me.
Originally, about two years ago, I bought and paid an Internet card to get Internet service. It did not work. I spent about 40 hours on the phone with your CS people, I went to the TMobile Stores and they could not make it work. I tried the Internet card on three different laptops and it did not work. I paid $300 for tekkies to try and make it work, and it did not work. I went to Best Buy and their tekkies could not make it work.
I was told by your CS people that I should "buy" a new card, because well, even if that one did not work, so what. I was finally sent a new CD, which was for the wrong card...and did not work.
I spent literally days and days on the phone with your technical service people...to try to get it to work, and it would not. I am continually amazed at the lack of concern and real world solutions that your company is incapable of....and I think I know why.
Finally, after 6 months, the Internet Card was replaced after about another 20 hours on the phone, in which your CS people finally figured out...using some dumb decision tree, that there was something wrong with the Internet Card. Finally, I get a replacement card, and it does not work.
As a result, I changed the Internet service to a regular phone service. I received a new phone number. I could not get the phone I wanted from any of your TMobile Stores. The stores advertised something like a Blackberry "Pearl," but guess what? It was not in stock. Doesn't anyone ever tell your people to stop displaying phones for sale if they do not have them? Duh! I know...people are desperate to get phone, so they buy what they don't want, so later they can buy something they do want, or buy it online, which then enables you to acquire more money from the customer. I've just about figured out all of your marketing tricks. However, its not really marketing now is it...it’s a SCAM and we both know it.
I ordered a phone online. It did not work. Subsequently, and this is important, I PAID TMobile for 1 1/2 years of service...and never made a single phone call and did not use your cellular phone service. I paid, and paid, and paid...for nothing.
Finally, I called and complained, and only after about 15 hours on the phone, did I threatened to cancel the service, which was when I was offered a DASH for the cost of $107. The problem is that your idiots then sent me two DASH phones, and set me up with a new second phone line...meaning I now had two phone lines....all costing money of course, which I did not order.
When I realized a mistake was made, your CS idiots said that they could not cancel the order and went ahead and sent me the phone anyway and kept the second phone line intact.
As instructed, I sent the unopened second Dash back to your company. I have proof that your company received it, I called, and emailed the UPS tracking number to your company numerous times. However, it took a dozen phone calls and hours and hours on the phone with CS in order to get your people to recognize that a) the phone had been sent back, and received in your warehouse, b) and to cancel the second phone line, which had never been activated. Each time, I had to explain the problem over and over again, as if I was talking to some mentally retarded person.
I found the person who received and signed for the second phone back in your company...by the name of "Burk." In clarifying this situation, I called and emailed TMobile at least 13 times. I have spent hours on the phone regarding this matter. Each time, it was as if your CS idiots had never heard of the information before....
All of this did not matter. Everyday I received a phone call or a text message telling me that my phone service was going to be canceled if I did not pay TMobile the entire bill although each CS operator I talked to said: "Yes, we are going to put your account on "hold," And, "no" you will not be charged or your phone service turned off. None of this CS blabbering meant anything, as the phone service was restricted today... meaning I could not return phone calls or use the Internet.
Therefore, I have been lied to by many people in your company over and over again, and I seriously wonder how you expect to stay in business, because some attorney, is going to file a class action suit against TMobile for lying to customers, and forcing customers to pay for things they did not order or use. In fact, I am so pissed off, I am going to find an attorney and see if there is a class action suit against you. I am also going to start issuing press releases about your CS and your intentional methods you training your CS to use in order to extort money from customers.
I am also going to file a complaint with every governing agency I can find in the US and Canada. I am going to put up a Web site called WWW.TMOBILE-SUCKS.COM.....AND CUT AND PASTE A COPY OF THIS LETTER INTO THIS WEB SITE, WITH THE WARNING, "DO NOT SIGN UP FOR TMOBILE SERVICE" AND THIS IS WHY (READ BELOW): .
I am also going to find out who the stockholders and board of directors are of TMobile and make sure that everyone of them gets this letter. I just bet that if anyone of them do a little investigation, they will find that I am just one of thousands who are being manipulated and extorted...for added income.
Each time I talked with one of your idiots in CS, they claimed my bill was being adjusted. Wrong again, more lies. The bill went from $212 to $344...instead of being reduced according to your people in customer service, who would read the notes, and then state that "yes, I was due a reimbursement."
There is no other conclusion but to state that I was simply lied to by you and your company consciously, and on purpose to create inflated and increased phone bills, so that customers like me finally just pay your company....to be able to get to use a cellular phone. I have two other phone services by the way, Sprint and MetroPCS, and not one of them has put me through the grinder like TMobile. The most I have ever talked to at Sprint or MetroPCS was 1 or 2 operators, who "fixed" any problem I had immediately and with finality, so that no other problem kept repeating itself like TMobile.
Therefore, it is a fact, that it is the policy of your CS people, based on your "marketing schemes" that you can extort people by telling them a line of crapola, and then doing just the opposite of what your CS people say they are going to do...so that in frustration, customers just pay the god damn bill. I know what kind of psychology you are using, and I bet, that you excel in extorting little old ladies, and senior citizens, and the naive people who fall for it, and thus you generate millions in out right theft. The only other equivalent group of swindlers who engage in this kind of psychological manipulation and extortion are the Nigerians and their mail fraud schemes. By the way, are you a Nigerian? That would explain a lot wouldn't it.
Finally, I was extorted today out of $77.00 to keep the phone turned on. After I paid the $77.00 (including a $5.00 service charge to be able to pay by credit card over the phone).... I then received another phone call about an hour later by an operator stating that I owed $212.00 and if I didn't pay it, the phone would be turned off. I called your idiots in CS again, and they "ass-ured" me that everything was OK and the phone service would not be restricted...which was just another lie.
Subsequently, the phone was "restricted" in that a) I lost the ability to call out, and b) I could not get Internet service for which I pay for also...although I had paid the $77.00...which was stated as the final, adjusted bill.
I have just called and finally, after 1.5 hours on the phone, talking to six operators tonight, finally got the Internet re-established. I was talking to some idiot in Toronto, who could not either hear as he was deaf, or did not speak English, and therefore could not understand numbers nor was he able to repeat them back correctly. It just goes on and on doesn't it.
As my time is worth about $125 for each billable hour I work, TMobile now owes me $8,750.00 for approximately the 70 hours I have spent in the last 1 1/2 years trying to get TMobile to just get my a) Internet card working, b) getting a phone that worked, c) disputing unjust charges and extortion to pay money that I don't owe, and d) after I paid, getting the Internet services re-established.
I have keep a tally of how many times your silly, lying, customer service people have said "I'm sorry...you must be frustrated, blah, blah, blah (wasting my time)" which is a psychological metaphor for...we are going to F___k you some more, until you pay more money, and hahahaha, there is no guarantee, little you is going to get either your phone or Internet service a) re-established, even though it should not have been stopped in the first place, and b) we are going to screw with you until you pay us more money....even though you don't owe TMobile a god damn dime...we don't care...
Did I get this right? Your silly customer service people, who don't know me from Tarzan, who have gone through your stupid, insulting, ridiculous training programs...have said "I'm sorry" over 287 times. If I hear "I'm sorry," one more time...I am going to fly to Canada, find your office and parade up and down in front of your building with a sign stating what a lousy, disgusting, insulting rip-off TMobile is....
Now, after all the bloody hell, Tom Foolery you (because YOU are the one who sets policy)...I've been through, the incredible number of hours I've spent on the phone with CS, and in your TMobile stores just trying to get decent service and an Internet card, and a phone , and service that works....tell me exactly:
WHY SHOULD I CONTINUE PAYING FOR THIS CRAP?
I expect to hear from either you or another one of your silly CS people..Also, instruct them to not say the word "I'm sorry" one more time, as it is a lie, it is disingenuous, and psychologically meant to screw me some more.
Diana Wilson PhD
786-521-9005
4302 Hollywood Blvd. #183
Hollywood, FL 33021
As a psychologist, I have figured out what your company is doing. It is called extortion....and use of psychological manipulation in order to get me to pay and pay and pay and pay...for a phone I didn't order, and for service that doesn't work, and for charges that I do not owe...and keep on the line, wasting my time, until I do pay. I know what you are doing.
Just look at the history of this phone number: 786-521-9005....and tell me why I should remain a customer?
To sign a contract is a two-way street. A contract means, I pay, and you provide a service. If you do not provide a service, then you either reimburse me, or do not charge me.
Originally, about two years ago, I bought and paid an Internet card to get Internet service. It did not work. I spent about 40 hours on the phone with your CS people, I went to the TMobile Stores and they could not make it work. I tried the Internet card on three different laptops and it did not work. I paid $300 for tekkies to try and make it work, and it did not work. I went to Best Buy and their tekkies could not make it work.
I was told by your CS people that I should "buy" a new card, because well, even if that one did not work, so what. I was finally sent a new CD, which was for the wrong card...and did not work.
I spent literally days and days on the phone with your technical service people...to try to get it to work, and it would not. I am continually amazed at the lack of concern and real world solutions that your company is incapable of....and I think I know why.
Finally, after 6 months, the Internet Card was replaced after about another 20 hours on the phone, in which your CS people finally figured out...using some dumb decision tree, that there was something wrong with the Internet Card. Finally, I get a replacement card, and it does not work.
As a result, I changed the Internet service to a regular phone service. I received a new phone number. I could not get the phone I wanted from any of your TMobile Stores. The stores advertised something like a Blackberry "Pearl," but guess what? It was not in stock. Doesn't anyone ever tell your people to stop displaying phones for sale if they do not have them? Duh! I know...people are desperate to get phone, so they buy what they don't want, so later they can buy something they do want, or buy it online, which then enables you to acquire more money from the customer. I've just about figured out all of your marketing tricks. However, its not really marketing now is it...it’s a SCAM and we both know it.
I ordered a phone online. It did not work. Subsequently, and this is important, I PAID TMobile for 1 1/2 years of service...and never made a single phone call and did not use your cellular phone service. I paid, and paid, and paid...for nothing.
Finally, I called and complained, and only after about 15 hours on the phone, did I threatened to cancel the service, which was when I was offered a DASH for the cost of $107. The problem is that your idiots then sent me two DASH phones, and set me up with a new second phone line...meaning I now had two phone lines....all costing money of course, which I did not order.
When I realized a mistake was made, your CS idiots said that they could not cancel the order and went ahead and sent me the phone anyway and kept the second phone line intact.
As instructed, I sent the unopened second Dash back to your company. I have proof that your company received it, I called, and emailed the UPS tracking number to your company numerous times. However, it took a dozen phone calls and hours and hours on the phone with CS in order to get your people to recognize that a) the phone had been sent back, and received in your warehouse, b) and to cancel the second phone line, which had never been activated. Each time, I had to explain the problem over and over again, as if I was talking to some mentally retarded person.
I found the person who received and signed for the second phone back in your company...by the name of "Burk." In clarifying this situation, I called and emailed TMobile at least 13 times. I have spent hours on the phone regarding this matter. Each time, it was as if your CS idiots had never heard of the information before....
All of this did not matter. Everyday I received a phone call or a text message telling me that my phone service was going to be canceled if I did not pay TMobile the entire bill although each CS operator I talked to said: "Yes, we are going to put your account on "hold," And, "no" you will not be charged or your phone service turned off. None of this CS blabbering meant anything, as the phone service was restricted today... meaning I could not return phone calls or use the Internet.
Therefore, I have been lied to by many people in your company over and over again, and I seriously wonder how you expect to stay in business, because some attorney, is going to file a class action suit against TMobile for lying to customers, and forcing customers to pay for things they did not order or use. In fact, I am so pissed off, I am going to find an attorney and see if there is a class action suit against you. I am also going to start issuing press releases about your CS and your intentional methods you training your CS to use in order to extort money from customers.
I am also going to file a complaint with every governing agency I can find in the US and Canada. I am going to put up a Web site called WWW.TMOBILE-SUCKS.COM.....AND CUT AND PASTE A COPY OF THIS LETTER INTO THIS WEB SITE, WITH THE WARNING, "DO NOT SIGN UP FOR TMOBILE SERVICE" AND THIS IS WHY (READ BELOW): .
I am also going to find out who the stockholders and board of directors are of TMobile and make sure that everyone of them gets this letter. I just bet that if anyone of them do a little investigation, they will find that I am just one of thousands who are being manipulated and extorted...for added income.
Each time I talked with one of your idiots in CS, they claimed my bill was being adjusted. Wrong again, more lies. The bill went from $212 to $344...instead of being reduced according to your people in customer service, who would read the notes, and then state that "yes, I was due a reimbursement."
There is no other conclusion but to state that I was simply lied to by you and your company consciously, and on purpose to create inflated and increased phone bills, so that customers like me finally just pay your company....to be able to get to use a cellular phone. I have two other phone services by the way, Sprint and MetroPCS, and not one of them has put me through the grinder like TMobile. The most I have ever talked to at Sprint or MetroPCS was 1 or 2 operators, who "fixed" any problem I had immediately and with finality, so that no other problem kept repeating itself like TMobile.
Therefore, it is a fact, that it is the policy of your CS people, based on your "marketing schemes" that you can extort people by telling them a line of crapola, and then doing just the opposite of what your CS people say they are going to do...so that in frustration, customers just pay the god damn bill. I know what kind of psychology you are using, and I bet, that you excel in extorting little old ladies, and senior citizens, and the naive people who fall for it, and thus you generate millions in out right theft. The only other equivalent group of swindlers who engage in this kind of psychological manipulation and extortion are the Nigerians and their mail fraud schemes. By the way, are you a Nigerian? That would explain a lot wouldn't it.
Finally, I was extorted today out of $77.00 to keep the phone turned on. After I paid the $77.00 (including a $5.00 service charge to be able to pay by credit card over the phone).... I then received another phone call about an hour later by an operator stating that I owed $212.00 and if I didn't pay it, the phone would be turned off. I called your idiots in CS again, and they "ass-ured" me that everything was OK and the phone service would not be restricted...which was just another lie.
Subsequently, the phone was "restricted" in that a) I lost the ability to call out, and b) I could not get Internet service for which I pay for also...although I had paid the $77.00...which was stated as the final, adjusted bill.
I have just called and finally, after 1.5 hours on the phone, talking to six operators tonight, finally got the Internet re-established. I was talking to some idiot in Toronto, who could not either hear as he was deaf, or did not speak English, and therefore could not understand numbers nor was he able to repeat them back correctly. It just goes on and on doesn't it.
As my time is worth about $125 for each billable hour I work, TMobile now owes me $8,750.00 for approximately the 70 hours I have spent in the last 1 1/2 years trying to get TMobile to just get my a) Internet card working, b) getting a phone that worked, c) disputing unjust charges and extortion to pay money that I don't owe, and d) after I paid, getting the Internet services re-established.
I have keep a tally of how many times your silly, lying, customer service people have said "I'm sorry...you must be frustrated, blah, blah, blah (wasting my time)" which is a psychological metaphor for...we are going to F___k you some more, until you pay more money, and hahahaha, there is no guarantee, little you is going to get either your phone or Internet service a) re-established, even though it should not have been stopped in the first place, and b) we are going to screw with you until you pay us more money....even though you don't owe TMobile a god damn dime...we don't care...
Did I get this right? Your silly customer service people, who don't know me from Tarzan, who have gone through your stupid, insulting, ridiculous training programs...have said "I'm sorry" over 287 times. If I hear "I'm sorry," one more time...I am going to fly to Canada, find your office and parade up and down in front of your building with a sign stating what a lousy, disgusting, insulting rip-off TMobile is....
Now, after all the bloody hell, Tom Foolery you (because YOU are the one who sets policy)...I've been through, the incredible number of hours I've spent on the phone with CS, and in your TMobile stores just trying to get decent service and an Internet card, and a phone , and service that works....tell me exactly:
WHY SHOULD I CONTINUE PAYING FOR THIS CRAP?
I expect to hear from either you or another one of your silly CS people..Also, instruct them to not say the word "I'm sorry" one more time, as it is a lie, it is disingenuous, and psychologically meant to screw me some more.
Diana Wilson PhD
786-521-9005
4302 Hollywood Blvd. #183
Hollywood, FL 33021
Response from:
j d
(06/02/08 12:55am)
Fuck TMOBILE!!
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