Telecom companies and trying to fuck over their costumers, name a more iconic duo
“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock
Submitted 6 months ago by Matt@lemdro.id to technology@lemmy.world
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a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Nestle and pretty much anyone
madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dupont and nature
dog_@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Samsung and the Note 7
Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 6 months ago
This one was about blowing them, not fucking them.
style99@lemm.ee 6 months ago
This is felony level bait-and-switch going on, here. This really should have criminal charges attached to the perpetrators.
njordomir@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn’t have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn’t have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I’ve been working to move away from google because I imagine they’ll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.
The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it’s enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you’ve been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.
The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I’m migrating the remainder of my stuff. I’ll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
I do love that so many people on the internet know exactly who you’re talking about when you say “greedy little pig boy”.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I mean I only when from an iphone fanboy to a google pixel to deGoogle. I’m on graphene and don’t have a google account. Been using Grayjay for yt and imported my subscriptions from there. Mail I’m using proton. I hope in the future, I can completely degoogle and not use youtube at all. A true alternative like peertube, but not too many people are on that.
njordomir@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I agree about peertube. I’m lucky that my niche has some creators with a peertube instance at urbanists.video (like c/fuckcars) for me to watch. I check that before youtube now and it cuts my YouTube usage by 5-15%.
I know we’re off topic, but do you have call recording on Graphene? Also, how does the adblocker work. I find most adblockers use the VPN to create a loopback to listen on. I use a VPN frequently, so that interface isn’t available and I block ads via hostfile.
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 6 months ago
I can only vouch for my setup; many variations are available.
- Nextcloud - files, photo autoupload, contacts, calendar
- Postfix and dovecot (and a bunch of friends) - email
- Pixelfed - private instagram. Can federate, but I’ve never enabled that.
- Opnsense - firewall, vpn, adblocking via unbound. Wireguard is my choice, but any would do. I get all my lan stuff available everywhere.
- Jellyfin - media library. It’s kinda sucky, though, thinking of going back to plex, unfortunately.
- Lemmy - well. You know what it is :)
- Graphene on a pixel
Hit me up if you ever decide to go self hosting route and need a hand with a thing or two!
Corr@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Curious about your issues with jellyfin? Ive been using it basically issue free for a few months
toynbee@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I also used GSuite for a long time. Its betrayal of its users is a big part of why I switched to Proton. Much better UX.
reddig33@lemmy.world 6 months ago
T mobile going downhill since merging with sprint and losing Legere.
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Who could have predicted less competition resulting in worse service other than everyone
pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Caught me completely by obvious
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, but a couple dozen sociopaths at the top got significantly richer, so fuck this entire portion of the population. Clearly the right people won.
~/s~
Taalen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
One of the companies making GPS navigators for cars used to advertise lifetime map updates. Small print: lifetime of the device, two years after release
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I bought my dad’s 2014 MKZ off him 4 years ago. They stopped producing GPS updates several years before I bought it off him. According to the device, there are times it thinks I’m driving through farmland when I’m at a Target parking lot.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Careful, Users. TMobile is large enough to go the Boeing route, and start making people disappear. Then, Users, your Lifetime Price Lock will be literally void.
Although, it would also be void if tmo died–err… disappeared…
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 6 months ago
or, alternatively, their lifetime offer has truly been honoured.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Hahahaha!! That’s really good! Hahahahahah!!!
yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 6 months ago
Yep, I quit T-Mobile and switched to Mint Mobile last month. Fuck those greedy bastards. My price is now 1/4 what I was paying before, and everything else is exactly the same. Should’ve done this years ago.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I was on Mint but had super unreliable SMS service, switched to Visible which is under Verizon and have had 0 problems.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But then Verizon would get some of that money. The pile of shit company that programmed a physical key on your phone next to the scroll wheel to bill you 1.99 a month for the privilege of using 0.00001 MB of data if you accidentally clicked it during the month and it opened their shit “get it now” store. Literally the company that pushed for hostile design back in the 2000s.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Any guarantee of a price lock with the stipulation of “You can just NOT use us if we ever decide to fuck you over!” - should come with HEAVY penalties.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
They could easily claim damages, considering they may have made sacrifices over the years against other providers in anticipation of the T-Mo guarantee.
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Legally, yes. In practical terms, spending $1000 to fight a lawsuit and win $50 isn’t realistic, and I’d be willing to bet T-Mobile forces arbitration anyway
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
That’s what class actions are for.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Boost Mobile is advertising the same thing right now. Who actualjy believes these ads?
bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lifetime of the service not of the human paying for it. 😊
Matt@lemdro.id 6 months ago
But T-Mobile is still offering the service, so it is not the lifetime of that either.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The service whose lifetime is over is the “lifetime price lock”.
JoYo@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
i keep hearing about this price hike but my bill hasn’t changed since 2008.
I still have the T-Mobile G1 phone plan.
Altomes@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’d just keep my head down if I were you
sawdustprophet@midwest.social 6 months ago
I still have the T-Mobile G1 phone plan.
Man that was a great phone.
My plan isn’t quite that old, but it’s getting up there. They recently increased my price by a few dollars per line. Then they tried to get me to move to a current plan, which turned out to be 20% higher price for less return. I had to try not to burst out laughing at the poor guy’s face.
I’ve been with TMo for more than 20 years–they’re the only carrier I’ve ever used–but if my price goes up again I’m jumping ship.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Loved my HTC Dream (G1)
It got slow after a year, then I put a custom ROM on it and it was a brand new phone.
solrize@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah I kept a tmo plan for a stupid amount of time. Eventually MVNO plans were just cheaper, so i switched. Why does anyone want to stay on some legacy plan anyway? Were any of them any good? This is what I would get for very low usage on tmobile now:
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Before eSIM, tmobile global data and text in 150 countries was the dream for my 5x trips a year. Now I just pop into the Eu and pick up a prepaid month European esim and spend €20+€15 additional month vs the $200 a year I was spending. Italy even has a deal in the summer now for €15 for 30 days.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“I got a text message stating my monthly rate will increase $5 per line, that is [a] $50 increase because I have 10 lines.”
The fuck do you have 10 cell phones for?
Even if it’s you + spouse + 8 kids, kids below a certain age don’t need a phone and kids over a certain age should pay for their own damn phone.
#get off my lawn.
moody@lemmings.world 6 months ago
Perhaps they own a business that pays for their employees’ phone service,
jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Business should pay for that, not the person.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I’m imaging a polygamy situation, personally
AA5B@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My idea wasn’t so fun …. Extended family. For example, my immediate family is four phones, plus I pay for my Mom’s
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 months ago
good luck getting that , users
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Sir, the customers are complaining about charging more money even though they had a pricelock for life deal”.
“Yeah? And? Fuck em!”
I mean…I kid, but that’s the CEOs legit stance on the issue.