You Must Have Manure For Your Brains…
I know it’s been a bit since I last posted. Don’t call for emergency assistance just yet. I’ve just been busy.
Anyway, if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you’re probably aware that I am a Virgin Mobile customer. And a pretty satisfied one at that. I like having no contract. Those termination fees the big boys charge are ridiculous. The thing about prepaid is that typically, the phones aren’t that great. But I got completely stoked when I heard Virgin Mobile was coming out with an Android phone recently. This is a real smartphone! (Yes, I know they already have the Blackberry, but I’m not a fan of the Blackberry. I’ve played with them and I just don’t like the way they work.)
Virgin Mobile has been pretty tight-lipped about the release date. Downright coy, if I may say. But I’d heard rumor that Target stores were getting them on October 3rd. I was in a Target getting some groceries with the kids and decided to stop by electronics and see if the employees knew anything. I look first at the demo phones and didn’t see the Intercept.
Me: ‘Hi, I was wondering if you guys were getting the new Android phone for Virgin Mobile? The Samsung Intercept?’
Saleswoman: ‘I’m not sure. Let me ask.’
She walks over to the guy behind the counter about five feet away. They talk for few minutes and I get the feeling they’re making fun of me because I’m on prepaid. Ha, ha, whatever, I’m not AT&T’s beaytch, so there. She comes over and they’re both kind of looking at me.
Saleswoman: ‘No. We don’t have that one.’
Me: ‘Well, I’d heard the 3rd was the date and I thought I’d just see. Some people had reported that Target was definitely getting them.’
Saleswoman: ‘Yeah, no, not us. Maybe it’s just not here yet.’
Salesdude: ‘Maybe we’re not one of the stores getting it.’
Me: ‘Okay. Thanks.’
I turn to walk on and there on the bottom shelf IS the Samsung Intercept. The phone is IN STOCK right there IN THE STORE and these two morons are sure they don’t have it. Yeah, I’m the dumbass for being on prepaid. No, I believe you two are the dumbasses who don’t even know what products you stock IN YOUR OWN DEPARTMENT.
Anyway, the phone is $249.99, but yes, I want it.
September 30th, 2010 at 12:10 am
Some people I know who used to look down on prepaid are now changing their minds. After all, I have a CrackBerry for $35 a month ($25/month Beyond Talk plan + $10 for the CrackBerry service). And they don’t. Even though I paid full price for the phone, I’ll come out better in the end because I’m not spending $100 a month for some contract plan. Even if on the off chance I win the Powerball jackpot, I still would not sigh a contract. I am happy with what I have, and I am not ashamed to be on prepaid. I think I am being a smart consumer.
The fact that there are smartphones coming out on prepaid is a sign that more people are using this. It ain’t just for drug dealers any more!
I seldom ask store employees for help with anything these days, they are all as dumb as these Target employees are. They are probably still living in their parents’ homes, with Mommy & Daddy paying for their expensive cell phone plans. Just getting some of them to properly ring something up for me is a production sometimes.
We’ll agree to disagree about the CrackBerry. I love mine, and if I had it to do now, I’d still pick it over the Droid. But hey, to each their own. Hope you can get this new phone sometime!
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Patrick D. Reply:
September 30th, 2010 at 5:44 am
Just for the record, I wasn’t insulting the Blackberry. Just for me, I didn’t care for the rollerball and the general layout. Certainly, if you enjoy that, that’s great. Each user has their own experience.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Nice
These devices are just popping up everywhere, which is cool. Now I find myself in the remorseful Early Adopter role – my 1st Gen Kindle, while still awesome, looks like a caveman device next to the new ones; now my Droid (1) is going the same route. LOL
Patrick D. Reply:
September 30th, 2010 at 9:52 am
eBay that antique and use the money toward the new stuff!