How hard is this, people? I tell you FOUR fucking times that my cell phone does not work when I go out of town. FOUR times! When I got off of the phone last week, with “Hector,” he told me that, if it doesn’t work for OhDope (my word, not his. I don’t believe Hector was invited), to stop in one of the Powertel stores located in Columbus, Ohio while I was gone, so that they could look at it. As luck would have it, the fucking phone wouldn’t work when I got there. So I went into a Powertel store, where I was “helped” by Tim, who didn’t appear to be able to find his own ass with both hands and a flashlight. Tim’s act of sympathy was pretty transparent. His acting ability such that he couldn’t portray falling if you pushed him off of a cliff. However, did DID change the chip in my phone, so that it would work while I was in Columbus. With a Columbus, Ohio phone number. At a $75 charge. Which I paid, because I needed it for that weekend. Now, upon my return from OhDope, I STILL cannot get resolution. I cannot seem to get ANYONE employed by this company to understand that I no longer WANT a Columbus telephone number. That it’s pointless for my family, who lives 20 minutes from me, call a cell phone number that it about 4 hours from any place that I have EVER lived. Rusty, the dork that I most recently talked to, tells me that they’ll be glad to change my number after rerunning my credit, and charging me another deposit (the original $75 would be counted towards that). Which I refuse to do, since I’ve already paid one. Luckily, I kept the old chip that they took out of my phone, so I can always use that, even if it won’t work out of town. According to the extremely educated Tim, there’s a defect on the chip, but any kind of activation from the Columbus market to the Louisville one will result in yet another credit check, which I refuse to subject myself to, since too many can lead to a negative score on my credit report. So I’m faced with a chip that will not work out of town, and one that will give me 500 anytime minutes and 2000 weekend minutes. I suppose I could keep the two numbers, and just pay the $40 a month so that I can use the Columbus, Ohio number when travelling, and the other locally, but that seems horribly inconvenient, and, quite honestly, is something I shouldn’t have to do. Plus, that would also involve keeping two cell phone numbers, even if I can only use one at a time.
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