# How to best drop Sprint.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-best-drop-sprint/455936>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 10, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-best-drop-sprint/455936 "2008-07-10T03:09:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-best-drop-sprint/455936/21 "2008-10-02T16:52:39Z")

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Sadly, I have to revive this thread. My Sprint Contract ended 8/26, so I went out to the Verizon store on 8/27. Now Sprint is trying to charge me for the month of 8/27 - 9/27. I put a stop payment on it (they were on AutoPay), but Now I am wondering what the next step is. Will they fight this, will it go to collections? I called, and the person I talked to said that I had to pay for the entire month because the service was available to me for the entire month (BS, my number was ported).

Any suggestions? I tried to do this right, and they still are assholes.

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**Author:** ![Cowboy8467](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Cowboy8467](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy8467)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-best-drop-sprint/455936/22 "2008-10-02T17:22:03Z")

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I have to say, that is kind of odd. I had Sprint for almost 6 years, from 2002 up until less than a month ago. My contract was up on September 7, and on September 10th I went into an AT&T store and started a new contract with them with the iphone. I didn’t contact Sprint first, and although the porting took over a day to take full effect, it ended up working perfectly. As far as I know I wasn’t charged for the month of service between 9/07-10/07.

I even signed into my sprint account online after I left them (which I still had access to somehow) and verified that I had no lines of service with them. It said that I had 0.00 due to pay. I would call them up and see what the deal is because it does seem abnormal.

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-best-drop-sprint/455936/23 "2008-10-03T00:14:47Z")

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I came in to rant about how it took me six weeks, four phone calls, more hours than I care to count, 20 gallons of gas, three faxes, and a lot of yelling to get Sprint to cancel my account when I moved out of their coverage area, but it doesn’t sound like it’s that applicable to your situation, so I’ll spare you.

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**Author:** ![RoniaBorkason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9dc877/32.png) [@RoniaBorkason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RoniaBorkason)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-best-drop-sprint/455936/24 "2008-10-03T17:46:57Z")

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If you are on email notification or billing, get rid of it before you switch. I left Sprint more than two years ago, paid what I owed, and they still send me emails every month to log on using my phone number (ported, doesn’t work) and pay my monthly bill. That I don’t have. They’re also still trying to court me back to them. Idjits.

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