User: Phydeaux
These are the most recent forum messages posted by Phydeaux:
Re: who...hold up a sec
Indeed, this company is top notch. It is absolutely peerless.
The ONLY negative thing about our company is the haughty "NO CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM" folk like GOUSCC up there.
If only the attitude were isolated.
Re: New Advertising Company What will they do?
Not if Gen Y is as important a market as they say it is.
Re: yep. not really impressed (what else is new).
"Candid" must be the new "c-word". :lol:
Re: kyocera K312
It's a rebadged Kyocera Cyclops 325.
The real reason for the failure:
Lack of decent equipment.
All USCC had to offer were LG and Kyocera models that I wouldn't have sold to a customer if I was offered double commission, and the customer offered a 3 year warranty.
The offerings were shoddy for what would be a very, very expensive investment for the average family.
The Nokia 6165i that was going to be a PTT phone for us could've been the phone to save the service about a year ago, but by the ...
Re: Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
Word.
I just realized that I was trying to argue with shills.
I mean, shoot guys. I work alongside you under the same company, but I'm not allowed to critique this questionable position? Because it is questionable on if it's actually the right choice for consumers. I feel the uniform carrier based OS' simplicity for troubleshooting grandma doesn't outweigh the cons of discouraging innovations in GUI development.
Re: Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
The appearance is and should be irrelevant in the advancement of developing advanced and usable technologies for the phone, and yes, we do have a choice over different technologies and orientations and even the UIs by selecting different models of phone, from different manufacturers.
When you take control of the software, you get a dominating Microsoft-esque control scheme where the manufacturers are no longer driven to innovate their software and their R & D divisions that deal with human interface ...
Re: Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
Wow, feck off, dude.
I'm not talking about skinning and slapping on a pretty aqua face; how utterly freaking useless of you. I'm talking about uniformly making the underlying UI for the carrier, DISCOURAGING MANUFACTURERS FROM MAKING INTEGRATED HARDWARE/SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS IN THE FUTURE.
You seem to not know of the implications or of what we're talking about. I'm not talking about a freaking WinAmp style skin that keeps the functionality but changes the ****ING COLOUR.
Only a moron would call me out ...
Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm hating this "custom UI" business. Smacks of control more than it does under the guise of "ease of use" for the simplest of consumers.
Re: Does Sprint let anyone use their network??
I'd like to propose that they're also require insurance at the rate of $7.50 a month a pop.
Re: $612.5 million
That's a ton of money. Geez. I want to be a Patent Squatter when I grow up.
Re: Idle thought
That sucks. Three months?! How are you guys floating?
Re: JUST ANOTHER AMP'D
Eh, looks like they're going to be doing a business model that Verizon wouldn't want to step into because of prohibitive cost.
Remember that the folks with this service are going to be able to do more frequent equipment upgrades as a part of their package. Verizon as a larger company that operates off of lower cost of plans (comparatively) can't cut that mustard.
Re: Target Audience
Oh, yes, my mistake. Here, I'll errata it:
MySpace caters to 13 and 14 year olds and pedophiliac 20-30 year olds.
Better? ;)
Re: Idle thought
Didn't your commissions for agents just drop last fall to some ridiculous amount?
Re: Target Audience
Isn't it something of a $500 activation fee?
$500 something a month? (I can't recall, I just remember those figures for some reason) Even an emogoth that buys a new iPod every iteration, or every 8 months or so, doesn't put out that kind of cash.
Re: Too Dumb To Own a Phone
Actually, no, that isn't his fault.
If what's happened what I think has happened, AIM gives no recourse to be able to pull that text redirect off. Really. The site to do it has relocated and I don't know where to.
Re: is it rude
Asking me what I make.
That's rude.
Re: My own experience...
Oooh, Strategic Service Solutions out of Fort Worth Texas? Most of the paperwork doesn't have RadioShack logos on it, but on the return invoice when they want money it's on there.
Yeah, they're horrible. I sent a Kyocera K494XLC off for repair for something relatively easy, like a BoB broke charging port back in September.
Just got it back. Unrepaired.
They are useless, and I still have phones off to repair for them. I've asked everyone at our corporate offices if there ...
Re: snot nosed teenagers
I take it all back. I got one of these today.
Ho-leee cow. The whining, the high pitched voice. She didn't cry, though. Red face.
My boss was far too lenient. I think he knows them. Of course, the fact that her phone failed in the first place (LG vx3100) wasn't her fault, per se, but that she wanted it replaced with a Moto v710... meh.
If it was my 14 year old, I would've nipped that stuff in the bud a ...
Re: OH GOD, are they high?!
Guess we'll just have to crack it.
Re: free incoming, roll-over, 6'oclock nights, free phone, free internet ..... prepay
{shudders}
Re: Lilttle Children/ corporal punishment.
You know what solved the problem in my store? A sign:
"Unattended children will be given two cans of Jolt and a free puppy."
Never had another problem again.
Re: No it should not be free
That seems more like the failure of a person rather than the failure of an idea.
Re: And another one bites the dust.......
"One night my co-worker got a police escort home when he was driving drunk."
Sometimes I just wonder about society.
Re: Yes it should be free.
Heh. Can't. They all charge activation fees.
And watching how agents in particular work, I'm not buying the "no activation fee - higher cost of phone; higher activation fee - lower cost of phone" excuse. It doesn't make any difference to the carrier instituting the fees when there's a middle party involved, except that they're getting an extra chunk of change "because everyone else is".
Re: Yes it should be free.
When you've never charged an activation fee before, and stayed in the black, but when you charge an activation fee, and are still bleeding money, what's happening?
And what do you mean /you/ charging them for your time? Do you see any of that activation fee in your commission, or does your commission stay the same whether an activation fee is waived or not?
Re: hey rich or eric...............song limit question.
howardchui.com was saying otherwise.
Re: Yes it should be free.
Activation fees are a joke. For years we were able to do business without activation fees. Then we went up to $5 a line. Then $19.99.
I was able to understand and justify these charges for a bit, citing cost of upkeep and whatnot, to subset a lower monthly price.
But then we/they raised it to $24.99. Then I started to wonder. The official statement was that "Everyone else in our market charges this amount for an activation fee, or higher."
That's ...
Target Audience
Anyone else find it funny that Helios is a high-high-end cellular provider and one of their flagship services will be mySpace, which caters to 13 and 14 year old poets and emogoths that naturally do not have any money?
Is the irony lost on everyone but me? ;)
Re: Not Verizon
It's hard to know what anything means if someone is 80% sure about it.
Source, plz.
Re: hey rich or eric...............song limit question.
I thought it was already common knowledge that the new ROKR wasn't using iTunes.
Re: !!!
Engadget is currently reporting that this new Linux based system isn't such a far-cry from Palm OS 5.
That's a huge relief and a slight disappointment at the same time. Relief that the interface will be similar if not the same. Slightly disappointing that what's to be rolled out isn't exactly new.
Let's hope for some multi-tasking support, regardless. That'll help.
Re: Why must you lie and I do not issue deposits!!
Uh, generally they're bringing that in to get the phone cut off.
I dunno, the way you have this worded is hilarious.
Re: snot nosed teenagers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I hate it when someone comes in and proves half of you whiners right. :twisted:
Re: Put the numbers to it, math hardly lies.
"Following me on the interweb"
Wow.
Dude, you made the comment, and I answered to it. If you think you're /entitled/ to The Last Word you've got another thing coming.
I will be reporting your qualms of harassment as harassment.
Then I'll probably be sacked.
Then rehired.
And then sacked. :p
Re: Cingular Rep
Holy fsck that's awesome. When did additional personal lines start? I never had even /one/.
Re: Hey, wait a minute...
Tell the cs that all phones have quirks?
Are you mad? No other representative at competitor's would be that generous! And then the rumours would start that *you* sell defective phones!
If there's a known issue, I'll disclose it, but when I've not used day-to-day 9/10s of the phones I sell, it's hard to let them know about everything.
Re: Put the numbers to it, math hardly lies.
"alot of the time it's just people from other companies trying to slam cingular for no reason."
Actually, it's more along the lines of slamming Cingular reps who have been programmed to say that Rollover minutes can do anything along the lines of solve world hunger and cure cancer.
Re: rules for customer service reps
Now, now... he could be right. There's a LOT of customers out there in the combined cellular industry. And a small percentage makes up the idiots.
That said, "small percentage" can still be... oh... 1.367285 BILLION PEOPLE.
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