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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 letter but it pretty much went like “For the First time in 10 years we have to raise the prices, Your plan will increase x amount”
First off you know how insulting that is @T-Mobile? You tell every one you will never raise the prices, then turn around and do it and brag about how it has been 10 years? Really? You said you would do not do it so it does not matter 10, 20 ,30 40, 50 years latter is nothing to brag about it. ID rather you sent a text saying sorry but we had to increase your plan or please take note plan prices are going up vs your saying well it has been 10 years. When you say you wont do something then you just do not do it..
My issue is a little more depth I qualified for the promotion if you raised the prices I can leave your service worry free and no bills have to be paid but now you representatives are talking about a bunch of technicalities that would prevent me on taking advantage of that offer, or how they claim those offers do not exits.
I invite any one to reply to this post stating how they feel about there plan prices going up when they where told IT WONT HAPPEN. I am hoping enough people will decide to speak out and maybe T-mobile wont continue the behavior, or at least take note for the next time they do this!
@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!
@ Gramps28 yeah I know but I never knew there services to promise that they never do it vs what T-mobile did. As I said in my original post my issue’s go deeper then my plan rates recently increasing like every one else, my plan prices have never been correct.
I have had nothing but issue’s with billing since my number got ported over from AT&T. In fact T-Mobile almost lost my number during the porting process. But that is another story in it’s self. I think it is time we as consumers stand up to business like this. When a business gives its word that they will or will not do something then that should a be a bond just like a person does.
There are to many MVNO carries that people can use that are way cheaper and offer as good as service like the big three.. The MVNO’s that use Verizon towers do not even exsperince de-prioritizing as ones on T-mobile towers, and there are select few on T-Mobile towers that provide really good results when it comes to data speeds as well, so I encourage people to shop like I am.
If we do not stand up to the big three carries this will keep happening. It was so sad to see Sprint sink. As much as I hate agreeing with a government regulatory agency they where right, when the merger between T-Mobile and Sprint was allowed it created issues like this. We now we have 3 cell careers doing whatever they deem necessary for more profit. I doubt that Dish will ever get Boost where it needs to be to a 4th largest provider they do not even have a physical network that can compete against the big three. Instead operating like a MVNO network. To bad they could not do what cable companies do with there cable modems and use there dish modems as towers.
AT&T is going to follow suit on increasing grandfathered plans and Verizon did it before Tmobile.
I know I want to keep the moment rolling on it… That is why I posted about it!
This has been a hot topic ever since it was first leaked.
