Verizon Offers Settlement To V710 Owners
Getting out w/o paying ETF again!!!
As much as this may have little effect on Verizon, I feel for agents and reps who might get charge backs from this...
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In the article it says that the phones must have been activated prior to Jan 05, in this case even if the customer does opt out of their contract the agent will not receive a charge back, the phone must be active for 180 days to not receive a charge back. In this case if somebody deos opt out the agent is covered since Jan has been more than 180 days ago.
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ok I did not read that part....I remember the good old days when it was six months...lol its like 4 months for us.. 🙂
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Yeah, it is still 6 months for us (180 days), However what I can't figure out is why someone would buy the phone than bitch about it and not retun it within the 15 days, if you bought the phone for those bluetooth capabilities than you are probably going to try it within the first 2 weeks of owning it, if it doesnt work as "advertised" than you will probably take it back to the store.
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Think Verizon will raise it's 14 day period to 30 days like Cingular has because of stuff like this?
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at one point Motorola was suggesting that there would be a software update that would provide this functionality. so that is why ppl didn't return the phone after 2 weeks.
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it wasnt only motorola it was verizon too. they were both in this togethor. although i have to say for moto that they did make the phone with full bluetooth, but per verizon it was crippld worse than TIMMAY. so that people would have to pay money to do simple things like sending pictures back and forth to other friends. let me tell you if im in the sae room and i have to pay 25 cents to send you a pic when my phone has bluetooth or irda i will not have that service for long.
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One thing that people seem to forget is that if Verizion didn't cripple the Bluetooth, they would have sued by the BREW developers.
Damned if they do, damned if the don't.
However, they should never have implied that it had full functionallity.
Damned if they do, damned if the don't.
However, they should never have implied that it had full functionallity.
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Jamie_Wolf said:
One thing that people seem to forget is that if Verizion didn't cripple the Bluetooth, they would have sued by the BREW developers.
Damned if they do, damned if the don't.
However, they should never have implied that it had full functionallity.
Explain how they would have gotten sued by brew? Alltel has the Nokia 6255i and it has OBEX and they have not gotten sued by Brew
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Actually, this turns out not to be the case....
The 710 never had OBEX in the firmware. This was per spec by VZW - but it's not like they ripped it out after the fact. If this were true, there would be grey market V710's from Moto emp's with obex enabled.
The 710 never had OBEX in the firmware. This was per spec by VZW - but it's not like they ripped it out after the fact. If this were true, there would be grey market V710's from Moto emp's with obex enabled.
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If you use put too many minutes on the phone, for example, yap on the phone for the first 2 days, like Saturday/Sunday, then on the third day go and take pictures and try to upload them on the computer, is it possible that you have used too many minutes on the phone and it is not possible to return it? In the first 2 days I had my mobile phone, I used it for almost 12 hours (weekend time) because I was so excited to have a phone.
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Depends on the term of the service agreememnt, but for the most part, US carriers don't impose minute limits if you buy corporate. Agents might have their own rules, so for the love of Goddish, read the contract.
I know in Canada (Rogers Wireless), I had 30 days or 30 minutes (or 150kb of data).
I know in Canada (Rogers Wireless), I had 30 days or 30 minutes (or 150kb of data).
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most agents do have minute rules because there is only a certain amount of time that can be on phone or the manufactures wont take it back and theyd have to sell it as used.
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the reason they wouldnt return it is because some jerk off sales person either told them to call motorola. Which was the going line at the time per verizon corp. or they were just told by that same jer off rep that a firmware update was comming out. I myself am too paranoid to believe jerks like that. Since i am a sales rep for another carrier myself. So the people kept their service til the 15 days was up believeing that the (at that time) biggest cell carrier would never blanketly lie to their " valued" customers to trap them into contracts they didnt want. Then when it was too late verizon released a memo saying no such firmware update would be released and you guys are stuck ike chuck.
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