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AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad.
An anonymous reader writes "Joel Runyon recounts a tale that will be familiar to many people who have bought secondhand smartphones. After his old dumbphone died a few months ago, Runyon picked up a used iPhone. He just needed it for basic phone capabilities, and used it as such, turning data off. However, AT&T eventually figured out he was making calls from a smartphone, and they decided he needed a data plan, even if he wasn't going to use it. They went ahead and opted him into a plan that cost an extra $30 a month. Quoting: 'According to AT&T: They can opt me into a contract that I didn't agree to because I was using a phone that I didn't buy from them because it had the ability to use data that I wasn't using (and was turned off). To top it all off, they got the privilege of charging me for it because I bought a differently categorized device – even though the actual usage of their network did not change at all and I never reconstituted a new agreement with them.'"
" I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further. " - AT&T
Holy UID Batman! If you never got first post when you were just competing against 1,501 other users, I don't think you'll ever get it now.
"I have altered the details of our arrangement, pray I do not alter it any further."
Hmm, now who said that?
If you're a woman, instead of pressing that reply button, why not just go make yourself useful and pleasure a man?
Pfft, why would I? Pleasing other women is a much more fun and useful use of my time!