above and beyond
Anthony received a Newegg rebate in the form of a prepaid debit card. When he went to use the $15 card for a $15.93 purchase, he received an unexpected and wonderful surprise.
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prepaid
AT&T put a press release out today about a new plan they're introducing on Monday, billed as a $60/month unlimited voice and text prepaid plan. While this plan is more competitive with smaller, prepaid-only carriers such as Boost Mobile, it's also significantly cheaper than similar regular plan options. So what are they thinking?
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hidden fees
Be very careful about activating any sort of over-the-counter prepaid debit card, reports the New York Times. They looked at a handful of prepaids currently on the market and discovered
ridiculously high hidden fees—the first two months of use can cost you up to $80.
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funny
Here's a funny commercial starring
Bas Rutten for some prepaid cellphone company. You probably shouldn't try this with your own cellphone company, but that doesn't mean you can't be thinking like Bas while disputing that ETF.
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cellphones
Reader Brandi's expensive T-Mobile Dash broke after only 7 months, leaving her phoneless and sad. The T-Mobile store was unhelpful — as she'd already used her phone discount to buy the now-broken Dash. What to do?
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xbox live
Xbox Live has struck again, this time by screwing up the auto-renewal on a customer's account and ruining the prepaid annual membership he activated just three months ago.
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prepaid
Nathan's been having trouble this week buying a prepaid GoPhone from
AT&T Mobility's website. He finally found out the reason: they couldn't verify his credit history. This is confusing because it's a
prepaid GoPhone and because his credit history is superb. "Cheryl refused to transfer me. I asked her if she was in any way motivated to find out what was wrong with their system and help me, and, to her credit, she answered honestly with a simple 'no.'"
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cellphones
Reader Christian has an iPhone that is activated on a pre-paid GoPhone plan with AT&T. The EDGE service has stopped working properly for quite a few GoPhone-style iPhone users in California and Christian isn't having much luck with AT&T's customer service:
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my, that's irritating
T-Mobile refused to process reader Lucas' girlfriend's credit card because she couldn't verify some of her personal information (she's moved a lot and doesn't remember the addresses of old dorm rooms, ect.). After she was rejected she went to another company for her phone... only to find that T-Mobile decided to process her order.
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prepaid calling cards
AT&T is charging users of its prepaid calling cards up to eight minutes per minute spent making an in-state call. The practice began in February and affects in-state calls made from every state except Illinois, Indiana, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
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virgin
Pre-paid cell phones sound like a good way to stay contract-free in the harsh world of cell phone use, but can a pre-paid account be just as frustrating as a regular phone? Apparently. Reader Sarah writes to share the email she sent to
Virgin Mobile. All Sarah wants to do is cancel her account so she can give her phone to someone else. That's it. Easy right?:
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prepaid
Pre-paid Mastercards are not a very consumer friendly item to begin with, but IDT's "Sigo" pre-paid Mastercard takes the cake. Some of the fees involved:
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teenagers
A lot of you already do, it seems. "A 2005 study by the Jump$tart Coalition for Financial Literacy reveals that 31.8 percent of high school seniors use a credit card. About half of these students have a card in their own names and the rest use cards issued in a parent's name." Is this wise?
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