Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Vendors...argh

If you think that dealing with vendors is frustrating when you move into an apartment...think about how tough it is to pull away when you're heading out of the country...for a very long time.  Or in our case, permanently.

They don't want to let you go...

ATT:  We want to keep our cell phone service for emergencies while traveling, and they would like us to continue paying over $100/month for service.  But that's just not practical for us.  :-)  ATT maintains that we can't use the iPhone without paying for the data services that we won't use (we have an iPad).

Time Warner Cable:  Trying to cancel this service is just as challenging as getting the cable hooked up.  They can only pick up the cable box one day during a four hour window, out of the next 15 days.  Or we can go to their offices and drop the equipment with them.

Vonage home phone service:  Vonage wanted to give us a one month credit just so we would stay connected to them, even though we're moving to Australia....so if you have Vonage, you know what to do now!  :-)

I'm sure we'll have a few more stories.  When you think you're out, they want to pull you back in!

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