Vodafone wont sell me a Nokia n95 (8GB)
March 7th, 2008 by Jason Roe. Post is filed under Jason Roe.
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I’m officially pissed off with Vodafone. Based on my personal experience, they are **** bags of the highest order.
I poked around on their website for over an hour, not able to actually find any way to buy an n95 (as an existing customer). So I decided to send them an email. Lucky for me, the contact page was dead.
I ring them up to be told, sorry no pass go, please ask in a local shop.. This must be ecommerce at its best. I piss away over 100 euros a month, on minutes that I barely even get through (any more) to be told… Sorry computer says no!?
Well Vodafone, you can f**k off!
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March 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I upgrade every 8-9 months. When I ring up, they always tell me - you haven’t got an upgrade. I tell them - I spend 100-150 a month with you, I’m a long term customer, you always give me an upgrade after 9 months - and in a nice voice say “can you see what you can do”. Usually works. Response then is - “I’ve pushed that through for you now”.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Tried that .. kept getting “Sorry computer says no!�. what fun.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am
same issue over the last few days, their site is a joke really. As David said - you have to call to make them aware of upgrade availability. then, you find that they will not just add the upgrade cost to your next bill - you have to visit the bloody store.
March 15th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Substitute O2 for Vodafone and iPhone for N95.
Irish consumers are weak and cannot get the deals that other countries do. I think mainly becasue we are give n little choice and if we raise the issue the powers that be row in behind the company and not the consumer.
The best response is to buy an unlocked phone, get a skype in number and become a network whore.
Eight years ago I had the pleasure of telling O2 to F off after being a customer with direct responsibility for 300 of their crappy lines. They couldn’t cut me a deal as a real person and I dropped them never ever to return.
I got my iPhone in Hong Kong and I will put any sim I want in it. Apple and O2 can go sing.
They cannot tell the difference between a customer and a ham sandwich. I don’t think they care and they have so many customers that they have the luxury of not caring. The mobile networks are as pleasant to deal with as the Social Welfare counter and they make you feel like you are stealing from them when in fact they are the ones stealing from you.
Eircom beats them hands down. I have tried unsuccessfully to get broadband for a company in Waterford Port. In spite of approaching Comreg, Eircom and senior officals in the Department of Isolation and Darkness we got nowhere. The nearest we got to an answer was to move the port closer to the exchange because the tiny village beside the port is not providing sufficient demand.
My point in a roundabout way is that the consumer and business that is small business kets a kick in the nuts from the operators and then to finish us off Comreg kicks us again in the nuts. Comreg denys that it works for the networks. I have my doubts.
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