July 5th

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On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:19:54 -0500, Steven J Sobol
<sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:

>
>Am dropping. My Sprint phone arrives tomorrow. I can't port my number
>without an ETF until the end of August. My VZW account will be active until
>then.
>
>And why do I care? You guys are being a bunch of whiny babies, Dave. I'm
>moving to Sprint. I don't recall Sprint billing *any* major holidays as
>offpeak. It's one of the perks of having Verizon instead of Sprint.
>Given that, I find this whole argument that "Verizon is screwing us by
>not making July 5th offpeak" more than a little specious, and rather
>annoying.
>
>I'd certainly expect more from you and most of the other newsgroup
>regulars posting in this thread. Which is saying a lot, considering
>that I've never had a single problem with anything you've ever said
>here up until now.


You know what? You take things too seriously at times.

The only reason I created this thread is to

1) Get some VZW discussion on this newsgroup (I'm so sick of that spam
that appears here)

2) Just trying to see what people's reaction would be.

I really didn't care that July 5th was peak minutes instead of off
peak. I have more peak minutes each month than I ever use (came close
once but still was within 30 minutes of my alloted time). I was just
curious if VZW was gonna declare it a holiday or not. Obviously they
took the cheap way out, but that doesn't really bother me.

Yes, I know you're moving to Sprint (feel sorry for you already!)
because of lack of good coverage where you now live. As I've always
said, go with the company that gives you what you want and can be used
where you need it the most. Granted, all carriers work about the same
(rather poorly) where I now live. 3 months ago I lived where VZW and
others worked great. Now I'm lucky if I can keep a signal without
dropping. Sprint, Cingular and VZW are the same where I now live.
However, where I travel, VZW does a great job so I've stuck with them.

(Tried to convince the wife and her daughter to switch - they like
Cingular's "roll me over" minutes)

So take a chill pill, Steve 🙂 Sometimes I like to stir up the pot
to see what happens. Seems like you and a lot of others took the bait.

Dave

 

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Sobol,
Sounds like sour grapes for you... So Verizon didn't work out for you at the
new place. And you think Sprint PCS will be better, more power to you. But
Sprint gives away less than VZW. And the cost is not really better IMHO.

Now VZW is making tons of money, and they could afford to give a little
away. They have the fewest promotions, special, and options, of any carrier,
well because
they don't have to offer them.

But it would not kill them to have a few more holiday options. I was off all
day yesterday, and even could have attended a parade. VZW should be willing
to give a little, or one day they will wake up with a dwindling customer
base. Great network or not.

I think Cingular & AT&T merger is the best thing
that happened to the industry, and Cingular will catch up and perhaps
surpass
the great VZW.

So it's not whining, I think it's a legitimate complaint.
AL

"Steven J Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote in message
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> Am dropping. My Sprint phone arrives tomorrow. I can't port my number
> without an ETF until the end of August. My VZW account will be active
until
> then.
>
> And why do I care? You guys are being a bunch of whiny babies, Dave. I'm
> moving to Sprint. I don't recall Sprint billing *any* major holidays as
> offpeak. It's one of the perks of having Verizon instead of Sprint.
> Given that, I find this whole argument that "Verizon is screwing us by
> not making July 5th offpeak" more than a little specious, and rather
> annoying.
>
> I'd certainly expect more from you and most of the other newsgroup
> regulars posting in this thread. Which is saying a lot, considering
> that I've never had a single problem with anything you've ever said
> here up until now.
>
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AL <al145 @ delete.hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sobol,
> Sounds like sour grapes for you... So Verizon didn't work out for you at the
> new place. And you think Sprint PCS will be better, more power to you. But
> Sprint gives away less than VZW. And the cost is not really better IMHO.

Hm. Flat-rate SMS messaging and PCS Vision (1xRTT) web access, monthly download
credits... and more minutes for lower cost. I'd disagree with you. The costs
for similar plans (America's Choice versus PCS Free and Clear, for example),
ARE actually pretty close, though. T-Mobile is probably *the* cheapest carrier
these days. But I like what I'm getting from Sprint. Yeah, I'm giving something
up, a half-dozen days that are no longer going to be offpeak. OTOH, since most
of my family and a number of my friends are on Sprint, the $5 unlimited PCS
to PCS option is worth much more to me. I could pay another $5 per month
for 7pm nights, but I've decided not to do that right now.

> away. They have the fewest promotions, special, and options, of any carrier,
> well because
> they don't have to offer them.

I know.

> But it would not kill them to have a few more holiday options. I was off all
> day yesterday, and even could have attended a parade. VZW should be willing
> to give a little, or one day they will wake up with a dwindling customer
> base. Great network or not.

I have to agree with you there.

> I think Cingular & AT&T merger is the best thing
> that happened to the industry, and Cingular will catch up and perhaps
> surpass
> the great VZW.

It's definitely going to make things interesting. VZ needs some competition
from a carrier of similar size.

> So it's not whining, I think it's a legitimate complaint.

I still say it's sour grapes (to use your phrase). My point was that there
ARE carriers that don't even give you the holidays VZW gives you.

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Diamond Dave <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Feel sorry for me if you like. I've been a Sprint customer since the end of
>>'01. Wife's phone is a Sprint phone and always has been. They're definitely
>>not perfect, but they did manage to iron out the hideous customer service
>>issues they had a couple years ago, and the service works where I need it to.
>
> I used to be a Sprint LD customer and my father still is. Left them in
> 1997, never looked back. I've heard so many horror stories with LD,
> Local and PCS that I chose to stay away. Also where I live, SPCS has
> poor coverage. But of course, YMMV.

MMDV, in fact. Sprint PCS, Sprint Long Distance too. I have the Sprint 50
at Home promotion that the company offers to their wireless customers. And
they work for me.

In fact, Verizon Wireless also works quite well in most places around Southern
California, and based on their network and coverage, I'd still recommend them.
But not in Victorville, where they've had unresolved issues for months. Also,
my bills used to come from Irvine (out near Los Angeles) and my calls used
to go to the Rancho Cordova, CA call center. Now my calls go to Seattle (I
am not sure any of them are routed to RC anymore) and my bills come from a
Seattle suburb. Don't know if that has had any effect on customer service,
and the CSRs are always polite and try to help, but I'm just not getting the
stellar customer service I used to get from the fine folks in Dublin, Ohio
when I lived in Cleveland. (Dublin is the corporate office handling Ohio and
Michigan accounts. Or was, at least, up until I moved here last July.)

>>UPS just dropped off my Samsung A660 and I'm playing with it, so I might
>>be off the newsgroup for a while.
>
> Understood. Go play with your new toy 🙂

Dude. Flat-rate Vision, including ringtone downloads, and for $15,
I can buy Xingtone and make ringtones out of WAV files and CD tracks. If I
get ringtones from Sprint I have to pay per download. (of course that also
applies to Java apps and screensavers and other content)

Yummy-licious. Now I understand why people complain about Verizon not
having gadget phones (though I didn't think it was worth spending more
money for a camera or video phone).

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On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 17:40:09 -0500, Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
chose to add this to the great equation of life, the universe, and
everything:

>The Ghost of General Lee <ghost@general.lee> wrote:
>> On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 15:44:12 GMT, Bob Scheurle
>> <njtbob2@X-optonline-X.net> wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 05:42:42 GMT, "C C" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>>Yes, July 5th peak time calls are billed as off peak. You can confirm this
>>>>by calling *611.
>>>
>>>I just called *611 and the rep told me today is a normal weekday.
>>
>> Go to the post office and banks and tell them that. The CSR was
>> wrong, unless they were talking specifically about the plan *you* are
>> on.
>
>GMAFB. There are plenty of businesses open. Including my doctor's office,
>and you know the kind of hours doctors keep (gotta get in those 18 holes,
>y'know).

None of which contradicts his statement that banks and post offices are
closed. We also did not have our normal Monday garbage pickup.

>It'd be cool if 7/5 was offpeak this year, but I don't see any compelling
>reason to complain because it's not.

How about because you'd be getting less than what your contract promises
you? The standard America's Choice plan includes six holidays, and if any
of them is on a day which is off-peak anyway, you are losing out on one
sixth of your free days, so they give you the next day to compensate. If
they didn't, you and a lot of other people would bitch about it.

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David S <dwstreeter@spamisnaughty.att.net> wrote:

> How about because you'd be getting less than what your contract promises
> you? The standard America's Choice plan includes six holidays, and if any
> of them is on a day which is off-peak anyway, you are losing out on one
> sixth of your free days, so they give you the next day to compensate. If
> they didn't, you and a lot of other people would bitch about it.

Actually, I don't care. Never have before, either.

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On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 17:47:30 -0500, Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
chose to add this to the great equation of life, the universe, and
everything:

>Daniel Dravot <chasham97NOSPAM@removethisyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I didn't use my phone today-- but if I had, those lying sumbitches would
>> have had a fight on their hands trying to get any money out of me for it.
>
>...assuming you'd have gone over your monthly bucket by using peak
>minutes that you wouldn't have used if today was billed offpeak. And if
>not, then what? Wait, let me guess, you'll call and ask for a credit for
>airtime you don't have to pay extra for?
>
>This thread is ridiculous. People are bitching about July 5th not being
>free because July 4th was free for most of them anyhow because it fell on
>a Sunday. Either that, or y'all are complaining about July 5th not being
>free because a bunch of people have the day off.
>
>I'm looking at the list of people posting complaints
>about this, and I'm genuinely surprised to see complaints from a lot of
>people who normally post intelligent stuff - and my advice to all of you
>is to GET OVER IT.

If I go over my minutes (which is unlikely anyway, but I did use NA for
over an hour of normally-peak time yesterday) I will have reason to bitch
because i called CS back in January and they TOLD me July 5 would be
off-peak.

Interestingly, I just (writing this at 10:30 am) did a #646 and the
estimate is as of *before* I got on NA, so those minutes don't show up in
ANY bucket yet. This is unusual behavior for #646 (especially since just
last week, it was up to date within a few minutes, for the first time since
I started using it).

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David S <dwstreeter@spamisnaughty.att.net> wrote:

> If I go over my minutes (which is unlikely anyway, but I did use NA for
> over an hour of normally-peak time yesterday) I will have reason to bitch
> because i called CS back in January and they TOLD me July 5 would be
> off-peak.

*THAT* is a valid reason to complain.

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In article <2KWdnS9yNrsll3fd4p2dnA@lmi.net>,
Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
>July 4th is always, always, ALWAYS billed offpeak by Verizon whether or
>not it's a weekday. So are Labor Day, Christmas, New Years and
>Thanksgiving. And one or two other days, I forget which.

You mean that the calls I made on July 4 on my plan which has a weekend
bucket will be billed out of my peak/off-peak bucket and not my weekend
bucket??! (old SRN+3200 weekend minutes)

 

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CharlesH <hoch@exemplary.invalid> wrote:
> In article <2KWdnS9yNrsll3fd4p2dnA@lmi.net>,
> Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> wrote:
>>July 4th is always, always, ALWAYS billed offpeak by Verizon whether or
>>not it's a weekday. So are Labor Day, Christmas, New Years and
>>Thanksgiving. And one or two other days, I forget which.
>
> You mean that the calls I made on July 4 on my plan which has a weekend
> bucket will be billed out of my peak/off-peak bucket and not my weekend
> bucket??! (old SRN+3200 weekend minutes)

I meant "offpeak" in the generic sense. You can confirm this with VZW
if you want - I believe they come out of weekend instead of night bucket...
iow, if you only have nights and not weekends you still pay.

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On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 21:14:12 -0500, Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
chose to add this to the great equation of life, the universe, and
everything:

>Diamond Dave <dmine45.NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>>The only reason people are getting time off today is because they didn't
>>>get to get the 4th off because it was a day most of them wouldn't have been
>>>working anyhow.
>>
>> That is true, but for the vast majority of us, it was a paid holiday.
>
>Point being, it just *happens* to be a day off, it's not going to be a day
>off next year, it's not consistently a federal holiday, and I still fail to
>see what the big deal is.

The big deal, besides what I already posted about us being entitled to six
free days per year, is that CS *told* me July 5 would be free (yeah, right,
why believe *them*?).

I just did a #646 and it looks like they did, in fact, bill my NA time on
Monday as peak. It's pretty unlikely that I will go over anyway, but if I
do, it's certainly worth bitching about.

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On 5 Jul 2004 20:59:21 -0700, babolat30@aol.com (Babolat) chose to add this
to the great equation of life, the universe, and everything:

>Just for the record, and given that July 5th is almost over on the
>east coast, I have an email from a CSR that someone posted on this
>newsgroup a long time ago:
>
>
>Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our web site.
>
>The following days are considered off peak holidays:
>1.New Year Day
>2.Memorial Day
>3.July 4th
>4.Labor Day
>5.Thanksgiving Day
>6.Christmas Day


Hey, guess what?! We can have this argument again this December! Christmas
and New Year's are on Saturdays and therefore also off-peak anyway. Then we
can do it again *next* December when they'll be on Sundays...

I plan to ask this question via email and keep the response on file. And
then shove it down their throats when they renege.

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David S <dwstreeter@spamisnaughty.att.net> wrote in message news:<tr5oe0dllr15r9dir46797e4c2l0nas1ek@4ax.com>...
> On 5 Jul 2004 20:59:21 -0700, babolat30@aol.com (Babolat) chose to add this
> to the great equation of life, the universe, and everything:
>
> >Just for the record, and given that July 5th is almost over on the
> >east coast, I have an email from a CSR that someone posted on this
> >newsgroup a long time ago:
> >
> >
> >Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our web site.
> >
> >The following days are considered off peak holidays:
> >1.New Year Day
> >2.Memorial Day
> >3.July 4th
> >4.Labor Day
> >5.Thanksgiving Day
> >6.Christmas Day
>
>

> I plan to ask this question via email and keep the response on file. And
> then shove it down their throats when they renege.

Well, you can't argue with them because they'll claim they gave you
july 4th off which they did. Just happened to be that it was on a
Sunday! While, it would have been good business practice to give us
the Monday off as well, you can't argue with them based on the email
above.

 

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In article <ee1cd441.0407091644.cfc4490@posting.google.com>,
Babolat <babolat30@aol.com> wrote:
>David S <dwstreeter@spamisnaughty.att.net> wrote in message
>news:<tr5oe0dllr15r9dir46797e4c2l0nas1ek@4ax.com>...
>> On 5 Jul 2004 20:59:21 -0700, babolat30@aol.com (Babolat) chose to add this
>> to the great equation of life, the universe, and everything:
>>
>> >Just for the record, and given that July 5th is almost over on the
>> >east coast, I have an email from a CSR that someone posted on this
>> >newsgroup a long time ago:
>> >
>> >
>> >Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our web site.
>> >
>> >The following days are considered off peak holidays:
>> >1.New Year Day
>> >2.Memorial Day
>> >3.July 4th
>> >4.Labor Day
>> >5.Thanksgiving Day
>> >6.Christmas Day

I have NSR with a 3200 weekend-only minutes promotion. For me peak and
night/offpeak come out of my plan minutes, and weekends come out of the
3200-minute bucket. I would be REALLY ticked if they strictly applied
the above and billed my Sunday, July 4 minutes as off-peak rather than
weekend.

 

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CharlesH wrote:
>
> In article <ee1cd441.0407091644.cfc4490@posting.google.com>,
> Babolat <babolat30@aol.com> wrote:
> >David S <dwstreeter@spamisnaughty.att.net> wrote in message
> >news:<tr5oe0dllr15r9dir46797e4c2l0nas1ek@4ax.com>...
> >> On 5 Jul 2004 20:59:21 -0700, babolat30@aol.com (Babolat) chose to add this
> >> to the great equation of life, the universe, and everything:
> >>
> >> >Just for the record, and given that July 5th is almost over on the
> >> >east coast, I have an email from a CSR that someone posted on this
> >> >newsgroup a long time ago:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our web site.
> >> >
> >> >The following days are considered off peak holidays:
> >> >1.New Year Day
> >> >2.Memorial Day
> >> >3.July 4th
> >> >4.Labor Day
> >> >5.Thanksgiving Day
> >> >6.Christmas Day
>
> I have NSR with a 3200 weekend-only minutes promotion. For me peak and
> night/offpeak come out of my plan minutes, and weekends come out of the
> 3200-minute bucket. I would be REALLY ticked if they strictly applied
> the above and billed my Sunday, July 4 minutes as off-peak rather than
> weekend.

"REALLY ticked"

I'm not singling you out, Charles, but it absolutely amazes me what
REALLY ticks people off, these days.

Priorities, folks. Priorities.

Notan

 

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"Notan" <notan@ddress.com> wrote in message
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>
> "REALLY ticked"
>
> I'm not singling you out, Charles, but it absolutely amazes me what
> REALLY ticks people off, these days.
>
> Priorities, folks. Priorities.
>

Agreed. I'm actually somewhat amused at the volume of posts every time a
holiday rolls around. You would think that the entire cellular industry
needs to rethink their marketing philosophies to focus solely on holidays.
And the posts would make it seem as if people increase their usage on these
days by an incredible amount of minutes.

Here's a suggestion- base your expectations on the normal bucket of minutes
the holiday would fall into, based on the day of the week it occurs. If it
ends up being cheaper, you're ahead of the game.

 

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Scott Stephenson <scott.stephensonson@adelphia.net> wrote:

> Here's a suggestion- base your expectations on the normal bucket of minutes
> the holiday would fall into, based on the day of the week it occurs. If it
> ends up being cheaper, you're ahead of the game.

Good advice! Honestly, it never even made a difference to me on Verizon
that certain holidays were offpeak because I budgeted minutes for those
days anyhow. And it won't make a difference to me now that I'm using a
carrier that bills all weekdays as peak.

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On 11 Jul 2004 01:16:17 GMT, hoch@exemplary.invalid (CharlesH) chose to add
this to the great equation of life, the universe, and everything:

>In article <ee1cd441.0407091644.cfc4490@posting.google.com>,
>Babolat <babolat30@aol.com> wrote:
>>David S <dwstreeter@spamisnaughty.att.net> wrote in message
>>news:<tr5oe0dllr15r9dir46797e4c2l0nas1ek@4ax.com>...
>>> On 5 Jul 2004 20:59:21 -0700, babolat30@aol.com (Babolat) chose to add this
>>> to the great equation of life, the universe, and everything:
>>>
>>> >Just for the record, and given that July 5th is almost over on the
>>> >east coast, I have an email from a CSR that someone posted on this
>>> >newsgroup a long time ago:
>>> >
>>> >Thank you for contacting Verizon Wireless through our web site.
>>> >
>>> >The following days are considered off peak holidays:
>>> >1.New Year Day
>>> >2.Memorial Day
>>> >3.July 4th
>>> >4.Labor Day
>>> >5.Thanksgiving Day
>>> >6.Christmas Day
>
>I have NSR with a 3200 weekend-only minutes promotion. For me peak and
>night/offpeak come out of my plan minutes, and weekends come out of the
>3200-minute bucket. I would be REALLY ticked if they strictly applied
>the above and billed my Sunday, July 4 minutes as off-peak rather than
>weekend.

Don't get *too* excited over a post here. Most of us use "off-peak" as a
generic term that means both night and weekend. In fact, I think I remember
the last time this came around that someone said holidays count as weekend
days.

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On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:58:40 -0600, "Scott Stephenson"
<scott.stephensonson@adelphia.net> chose to add this to the great equation
of life, the universe, and everything:

>
>"Notan" <notan@ddress.com> wrote in message
>news:40F09AF5.19AAB836@ddress.com...
>
>> "REALLY ticked"
>>
>> I'm not singling you out, Charles, but it absolutely amazes me what
>> REALLY ticks people off, these days.
>>
>> Priorities, folks. Priorities.
>
>Agreed. I'm actually somewhat amused at the volume of posts every time a
>holiday rolls around. You would think that the entire cellular industry
>needs to rethink their marketing philosophies to focus solely on holidays.
>And the posts would make it seem as if people increase their usage on these
>days by an incredible amount of minutes.
>
>Here's a suggestion- base your expectations on the normal bucket of minutes
>the holiday would fall into, based on the day of the week it occurs. If it
>ends up being cheaper, you're ahead of the game.

Some people, if they have free holidays, will use them to call people. I,
if I had remembered, would have used it for web surfing (but it turns out
it may be just as well, since it appears they charged the minutes I did use
as peak, conflicting with what they told me back in January).

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On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 14:48:28 -0400, The Ghost of General Lee
<ghost@general.lee> wrote:
>
>>Confirmed. It is PEAK minutes today.
>
>Just how did you "confirm" this? Your bill come in yet?

I got my bill today, and calls on July 5 were billed as PEAK period
calls.