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Eyespot is running a Mobile Video Contest this weekend. For the next 72 hours (less by the time you read this) we're running a contest for the best short movie shot exclusively with a mobile phone and mixed on eyespot. We'll pick a winner on Monday and give him or her $500 cash. The goal here is to be as creative as you can and show us what you can do with mobile phone video + the eyespot Mixer.

To get started come to www.eyespot.com, join the 72 Hour Mobile Video Contest group. Then get creative...interview strangers about the high price of gas, write a script and act it out in your backyard, ask your friends to tell their favorite joke, etc.

If you don't have a phone that shoots video yet, use one from work! Maybe you'll win $500

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What company do you work for? I noticed that your name was Ang and you actually sound like a guy who sits in my section. Better yet.....what languages do you speak? Then I'll definitely know if it's you

Ok, so we have had this customer for about a year now. Comes in to make a payment the first time and all he says is "yeah", like Rainman.

"Would you like us to show you how to use *pay?"

"yeah"

"It would let you save a trip each month instead of driving here to make a payment"

"yeah"

"Ok, here is how you do it." All he does is slide the check over and doesn't look. This went on for about three months. Pretty soon we just did it for him. No more questions, because the answer was always "yeah".

So homey comes in today with his old and NEW phone and says "I lost my old phone and then found it, can you turn it back on?" I look and he bought the phone at a different store!!!!!

I ask him why he didn't buy it from me. Al...
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I tell people I'm going to need a valid credit or debit card in their name to get this set up over the phone. Then I get to the part where I have to ask them for the card number.

"Oh you need the numbers?"

Yes, I do, in fact, need the numbers, I'm not sure what else you thought I was going to need, just your word that it exists?

"Oh it's in my car."

Then you'll need to go get it, since I can't read the numbers off of it for you, I'm not psychic as much as I wish I were.

Now I usually list exactly what I'm going to need in order to process the order with the intention of giving them a chance to get everything together into one place to make the next step easier as our system is prone to timing out once we get into the infor...
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had this kid come up with a couple friends, wanted to buy a car charger. tried haggling the price with me, then accepted the price and said he only had rolls of coins. i told him no. if he wanted it he would need bills or a credit card. then he argues with me that i 'have' to take any form of currency. i explain to him that i can refuse a sale for any reason to anyone. he claims discrimination. he's a teenage, upper-middle class white kid. no-goings pal. so he says he'll bring his dad back and i'll have to take the coins. i told him that if his dad is willing to stand at my booth and count out $21 worth of nickels and dimes in neat little stacks, i'll do it. it's been a few days now and i just saw him in the mall, he wouldn't make eye contac...
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So this guy comes in with his wife (ugh). The two of them look like they had been beating the shizz out of each other and dudes face was all tore up. Kinda funny too - cuz this jack off made my days miserable when he signed up a while back.

So his phone is trashed. No insurance - go figure. Says "I was told that I can come in and pick a phone up and have you put the balance onto my account, so I want this 5200 for 99.99" Wrong. Sorry. Cant do it. Of course he starts to get pissed.

Goes on about how his wife beat him up, and was arrested. They start fighting... the laughs on my end just get better. She actually explains the whole "you gotta buy at retail thing to him." Thank god.

In the mist of all the flying sh!t, I catch t...
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Im going to be putting a basket with female and male contraceptives with a large sign with large letters stating...

STOP THE SPREAD OF STUPIDITY

I don't think I will be very popular in here after this post but here goes.

Believe it or not I think Plooky has had some good points and brought some decent questions to the table. S/he is well spoken and obviously educated, that is why I don't think s/he believes most of the points s/he makes. I think Plooky is playing devils advocate. Which is a good thing. It's never wrong to look at a subject from all angles. I just don't like the arrogance, belittling, or the way s/he argues.
Sorry plooky, but quoting one phrase out of a paragraph, taking it out of context, and then putting a laughing smiley next to it does not mean you win. This forum was not designed for competition, just discussion.

he is the most intelligent person on this forum, go plooky go

I need the closest store. I'm going to the races in Alabama.

Great. We're located at 1000 Any St. Take exit 302 off I40.

What the F*^% lady I'm in in Alabama. I need the closet store. Now! My phone says 'no service'!!

Oh. OK. Where are you at in Alabama?

(disgusted sigh)I'm on hwy 20(something) at mile marker 42. Just give me the phone number for the closest store!

The wife is in the background yelling about what am idiot I am 😳...

"Hold one moment while I get that number for you."
What am I? Mapquest. Your redneck wife calls me idiot because I don't know where mile marker 42 on hwy bumf!@#d is? Goodbye Mr Butrag. CLICK!!!!! 👿
Believe it or not he actually calls back.

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I'm a Cingular Telesales rep, quit your laughing, but we all get a psychotic caller once in a while. No, not the irate caller, the PSYCHOTIC.

Here's mine.

Lady calls in, before I can get my greeting out there is this blood curdling scream. "WHERE THE F*** IS MY F-ing PINK RAZR!" First thing I think, wow she's pissed, that quickly changed. She says her last name is something-Schwartzennager, then She starts crying.

Then gets angry again and ranting about how she is going to smash in her husband's Silver Porsche with a crowbar because he got his silver razr to match his car, while her pink razr, which would match her lambourgini, is on back order.

Starts to cry again, demands to talk to the president of Cingular, because she kno...
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No I will not put your prepaid minutes in the phone for you because you are too lazy or stupid to do it yourself and no I will not take your cash or check payment because you don't know how to use that there machine and you don't feel like learning today. You are going to learn today.

I am a wireless sales rep and a myspace addict myself. I created this page on myspace www.myspace.com/brokencellphone

this page is a sounding board for frustrated reps and disgruntled cell phone users.

you must be a myspace member to view the page, but I'm hoping it can be myspace group therapy for everyone worried that the industry is saturated and not making money or any other cellular issue. Check me out and add me as a friend so you can post on my page!

ciao!
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Why would we WANT to pay your termination fee with the other company just to entice you to join us? You're proving right off the bat that you don't put any value on your obligations.

Is it even legal? I'm pretty sure we've had this conversation here before but how many companies will do that? Try to convince somebody to switch by either paying the ETF or offering them a credit on their account in the amount of the ETF?

What ringtone makes you cringe when you hear it? I hate hearing "laffy taffy" It's a stupid song, and even worse ringtone. A close second would be the nextel "blah blah blah blah"

Why in the name of God, is it impossible to start blasting that assmaster (Plooky) without getting you sh|t deleted. Does it really hurt Plooky's feelings that everyone here (except the PHAGS FOR PLOOKY club) dispises EVERY post he makes so much that he has to get all the discussion about him that doesn't make him sound like a king removed from the board? F that, this is some petty pu$$y sh|t going on. Grow a pair you wankers.

I know about a year and a half ago we used to offer Roadside Assistance but we haven't offered it in ages. I've only had a couple people ask for it even when we did offer it.

How many other carriers ever offer it? Is it really that big of a selling point?

I work for a wireless company that is NOT sprint/nextel. Wireless portability is a LAW, but sprint/nextel customer care doesn't think so. They will lie and finaggle a way to not take their ridiculous "Number Guard" off a customer's line who wants to leave the company. Every time a customer wants to come over to my service and leave this ridiculous carrier that uses 'dinosaur-sized' phones and a megaphone-type service so I have to hear every construction worker's conversation as I'm trying to peacefully eat my lunch at a restaurant, the new customer and i end up with a snotty rep over the phone that tells us something to the effect of "There's no number guard on this line", so when I try to resubmit the number port...big surprise...it doesn...
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I figured I'd ask the professionals. How is PTT for Cingular and is the LG CG300 a good phone? Thanks a lot!

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