Fuck You T-Mobile

Please try not to pass out and hit your head with astonishment at an update. The Guv'ner's very busy you know. Be darn lucky you got anything, ingrate.

My young man and I went to the T-Mobile store at lunchtime because his cell phone SIM card ceased working. This made me realize a couple of things: 1) SIM cards can break for no apparent reason without even leaving the phone, and 2) T-Mobile stores will rip off orphans to grease the corporate pocket.

They told us a new SIM would be $20. No tax if we paid cash (HUH????) We're like "Dude, you'll take credit and that money will go in the fucking register!" So then they give us a twenty dollar leather cell phone case, ring it up and charge the $20 plus give us the new SIM. Which isn't on the receipt because it is FREE.

So let's recap: Basically they want to get money out of you and a SIM is free so they tell you the SIM is $20, ring up an accessory for that price, give you the SIM AND the accessory so they can keep the books straight as a twenty dollar sale and you get conned to shit into buying something you didn't want in the first place.

The boy wanted a case anyway. he didn't like the one they gave us and asked to switch to one better suited to his needs. Which they agreed to. And it turned out to be cheaper (only fifteen bucks) so they refunded the extra five. Which means that SIM magically now costs only $15 (hmmmm....) further proving my point - the SIM is free and they don't "throw in" the accessory that's what you're paying the fucking money for.

This does not sit well with the Guv'ner who didn't have the wits about her on the spot to tell them to go fuck themselves sideways, but who will be shortly formulating a plan.

So the moral is: SIM cards are free. if a store tries to charge you by "throwing in" some other accessory tell them to stick the accessory where the sun don't shine and take the SIM card. They can't charge for that. Fuckers.