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Am I the only person concerned about the T-Mobile Price Increase??
So I have a magenta plan and a few weeks ago I got that nice text telling me price will increase. What really drove me nuts about it was how it was worded I cant remember the exact wording down to ...
@gramps28 who said anything about a class action… I would not try to sue over this as far as me personally, where would that get any one? First like you said, it likely cause the company to want compensate and drive the prices up, if it went class action every one would get very little, and plus as you said I am sure some where in the very fine print they wrote somewhere that they could still raise the prices with out given the benefits.
What I meant is people standing up and simply jumping ship from the big three or just calling there customer service non stop to complain about it. Personally I just stop using them and that is what I am intending to do. Does any one use the perks enough to get any value from it? That is what your paying extra for between the big three and the MNVO's. Not unless your constantly traveling internationally or attending concerts bi-weekly or monthly, what are your paying for? Most of the Video subscriptions only remain free for 6 months or a year, and things like the video subscriptions and free AAA are a one time deal. Once that year is over your paying regular price for good. However after that year has gone your are still paying one of the big three cell phone companies the same prices.
The really funny thing about that is go to AAA, go to Walmart.com and look at the subscription service. Go to your health care providers site and look at deals or discounts, go to your employers benefits site. It is all the same you are offered relativity the same discounts for the same places, and any more this through just about any service, job, or business you sign up with. However for some reason we all pay, these big three careers to supply us with perks that we likely already have access to and let them do things like this make promises and then let them break them!
FydorLytke wrote:gramps28 wrote:FydorLytke wrote:gramps28 wrote:From what I have read was there was fine print about the price lock guarantee that said they could still raise the rates.
Also I posted in another thread that class actions only will end up in the end raising prices. I got a class action check from State Farm for $33 so I'm expecting my premiums to rise to off set this class payment.
I never replied back to your main point here gramps, and do not take me the wrong way you seem to be pretty active on the forms and and always willing to cheerp things up, to get to the bottom of things. I wanted to point out depending on when you signed on, the exact plan and ect, the wording differed here and there so…
The point is not so much the fine print, but the advertising. Here is the thing T-mobile fans wanted to really like their provider T-mobile. People looked at T-mobile in the US as the underdog that stood with consumer. People wanted a celluar brand they could identify with, Sprint was on there way out even though they was always leading with the latest tech. Verizon well had amazing coverage especially in the 3g and 4g days but was slow to really understand its customers, gave that IBM corporate Vibe, and was always slow with the what is next. AT&T had became a dinosaur, just doing a little of what every one else was and never really standing out or trying too, and then making it hard for new customers to come to them by locking out most unlocked phones and ect. trying to ensure the new customer purchased a phone from them.
So when T-Mobile advertised things like the UN-Carrier promise (or whatever it was called) "you raise your rate not us" or the "Price lock guarantee" the consumers trusted this like a friend or family member giving there word. It would not had matter if T-mobile raised there rates b a quarter .25cents people are going to feel a certain way about it, cause it is breaking that bond of trust with something you identified with… Then poorly rolling out that rate hike, really made some damage...
Even in the advertising there's still fine print that needs to be read.
Have you ever read the Tmobile Terms and Conditions you agreed to when you signed up? You will be surprised what you agreed to.
Oh I believe that, but there is also consumer protections for false advertisement practices whether what the fine print sees or not. I assuming that is why people are sending this over to the FTC, FCC, and there AG Office.. False advertisement is false advertisment, labeled for cases such as these.. So no matter what your fine print sees, if you are false advertising that print, well false advertisment is false advertisment!
I hate to say this but I doubt much is going to come from this. If there's fine print people don't see that's on them. And all those agencies you posted won't do anything.
