Not only does virtual cellphone carrier Helio work by piggybacking off Sprint’s network, it seems to have leased their call centers’ famous dedication to customer service as well.

Brian writes, “”The short of it is that I tried out a Helio Drift, canceled my account and sent the phone back within 30 days (as per their policy), and have been waiting for a refund for the last six months, calling Helio roughly every 2-3 weeks and getting a slightly different story every time,” — and no refund. It’s now been 170 days.

Hey Sky Dayton, if you don’t want your company to go the way of Amp’d, maybe think about purging the body thetans from your call centers. *

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* Sky Dayton is a Scientologist. One of their beliefs is that, “75 million years ago, [Xenu] brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together and stuck to the bodies of the living. Scientologists believe the alien souls continue to do this today, causing a variety of physical ill-effects in modern-day humans. [Scientologist founder L. Ron] Hubbard called these clustered spirits “Body Thetans”…”

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