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My AC 2-year contract ended during 2/04. Two phones. I just moved from
the East Coast to the West Coast and Verizon won't give me a new local
phone number without a new contract. A new contract is $5 more per
month, plus the cost of activating the two lines. I have NE2, but I'm
happy with my phones. I signed up for detailed billing before the end of
June, and I got a note today that Verizon extended my contract for 1
year because of it. What contract? I guess I should have read the fine
print on the web site. I have until next week (30 days from the detailed
billing signup date) to call and cancel the detailed billing. I don't
like the fact that they're doing that because I always had detailed
billing prior to their announcement in March.
 
On the plus side, there would be unlimited M2M calling for the primary
line (I had only 250 shared M2M minutes) and the new minimal AC
contracts allow for 400 minutes (I had only 300). I never went over my
monthly limit. It doesn't seem worth it to pay the extra $120 (plus
activation fees) over the course of 2 years to get a local phone number.
I don't call the mobile phones from my land line. The phones are used
for calling out or calling each other. Hmmm. Just thinking out loud.
--Felix

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Felix <felix@bam.org> wrote:
: My AC 2-year contract ended during 2/04. Two phones. I just moved from
: the East Coast to the West Coast and Verizon won't give me a new local
: phone number without a new contract. A new contract is $5 more per
: month, plus the cost of activating the two lines. I have NE2, but I'm
: happy with my phones. I signed up for detailed billing before the end of
: June, and I got a note today that Verizon extended my contract for 1
: year because of it. What contract? I guess I should have read the fine
: print on the web site. I have until next week (30 days from the detailed
: billing signup date) to call and cancel the detailed billing. I don't
: like the fact that they're doing that because I always had detailed
: billing prior to their announcement in March.
 
: On the plus side, there would be unlimited M2M calling for the primary
: line (I had only 250 shared M2M minutes) and the new minimal AC
: contracts allow for 400 minutes (I had only 300). I never went over my
: monthly limit. It doesn't seem worth it to pay the extra $120 (plus
: activation fees) over the course of 2 years to get a local phone number.
: I don't call the mobile phones from my land line. The phones are used
: for calling out or calling each other. Hmmm. Just thinking out loud.
 
Well, you have other choices besides Verizon, right?  If you can get
out of your current contract, wouldn't it be like getting brand new
service?  If not, how about going with someone else?
 
You could always go prepaid for a couple of months (could you activate
your current Verizon phones with anyone?) if Verizon won't treat you
like a new customer, which they should by all rights if you are moving
to a new locale and they will force you to sign a new contract just to
stay with them with a new number.
 
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"Felix" <felix@bam.org> wrote in message
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> My AC 2-year contract ended during 2/04. Two phones. I just moved from
> the East Coast to the West Coast and Verizon won't give me a new local
> phone number without a new contract. A new contract is $5 more per
> month, plus the cost of activating the two lines. I have NE2, but I'm
> happy with my phones. I signed up for detailed billing before the end of
> June, and I got a note today that Verizon extended my contract for 1
> year because of it. What contract? I guess I should have read the fine
> print on the web site. I have until next week (30 days from the detailed
> billing signup date) to call and cancel the detailed billing. I don't
> like the fact that they're doing that because I always had detailed
> billing prior to their announcement in March.
>
> On the plus side, there would be unlimited M2M calling for the primary
> line (I had only 250 shared M2M minutes) and the new minimal AC
> contracts allow for 400 minutes (I had only 300). I never went over my
> monthly limit. It doesn't seem worth it to pay the extra $120 (plus
> activation fees) over the course of 2 years to get a local phone number.
> I don't call the mobile phones from my land line. The phones are used
> for calling out or calling each other. Hmmm. Just thinking out loud.
> --Felix
 
Had a similar problem when I moved from the East coast to the west coast.
Apparently they are on two different accounting systems between the two
coasts. Problem was, I tried to do it my way and got all messed up, trying
to get out of paying the $5 extra per month. Solution, called *611 and
essentially did an ez-move from my old location to my new one. No problem/no
hassle, other than my phone number, contract number, and date changed
(essentially they started a new contract with no etf charge since I just
changed contracts, but kept the service) Interestingly enough, I had some
options added back east that were on the contract out west (NA-MOU if you
know what that is). Bottom line, it's real simple and easy if you don't try
to scam them out of the current contract price. I can almost guarantee you
that's it's becase you want to extend the old east coast contract for $35,
rather than pay the new $39 a month price. Be prepared to get screwed on
local services if you don't change to a local number, even something as
simple as a pizza delivery won't happen if you have a long distance callback
number.

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"I'm out of my contract, and if I must sign a new contract it won't be  
with verizon wireless".
 
Their response will dictate if they want you to be their customer in the  
future.
 
JS
 
Felix wrote:
 
> My AC 2-year contract ended during 2/04. Two phones. I just moved from
> the East Coast to the West Coast and Verizon won't give me a new local
> phone number without a new contract. A new contract is $5 more per
> month, plus the cost of activating the two lines. I have NE2, but I'm
> happy with my phones. I signed up for detailed billing before the end of
> June, and I got a note today that Verizon extended my contract for 1
> year because of it. What contract? I guess I should have read the fine
> print on the web site. I have until next week (30 days from the detailed
> billing signup date) to call and cancel the detailed billing. I don't
> like the fact that they're doing that because I always had detailed
> billing prior to their announcement in March.
>  
> On the plus side, there would be unlimited M2M calling for the primary
> line (I had only 250 shared M2M minutes) and the new minimal AC
> contracts allow for 400 minutes (I had only 300). I never went over my
> monthly limit. It doesn't seem worth it to pay the extra $120 (plus
> activation fees) over the course of 2 years to get a local phone number.
> I don't call the mobile phones from my land line. The phones are used
> for calling out or calling each other. Hmmm. Just thinking out loud.
> --Felix

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Felix <felix@bam.org> wrote:
> My AC 2-year contract ended during 2/04. Two phones. I just moved from
> the East Coast to the West Coast and Verizon won't give me a new local
> phone number without a new contract.
 
They did it for me. I did an EZ Move to California from Ohio and it
did not extend my contract. Did they have you talk to the "EZ Move"
department to set up the new numbers?
 
 
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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:59:53 -0500, Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
in his infinite wisdom wrote:
 
>Felix <felix@bam.org> wrote:
>> My AC 2-year contract ended during 2/04. Two phones. I just moved from
>> the East Coast to the West Coast and Verizon won't give me a new local
>> phone number without a new contract.
>
>They did it for me. I did an EZ Move to California from Ohio and it
>did not extend my contract. Did they have you talk to the "EZ Move"
>department to set up the new numbers?
 
They won't do it for me because I'm off contract and they don't offer
the $34.95 contract in my new area (or anywhere else, probably).  I
tried EZ-Move on the web and it asked me to pick a contract. They start
at $5 more for services that I have proved over 2 years that I don't
need. I've called CS several times and each time they say they can't
help me get a new # if I don't have a contract with them. To tickee, no
washee.

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"Felix" <felix@bam.org> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:59:53 -0500, Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
> in his infinite wisdom wrote:
>
> >Felix <felix@bam.org> wrote:
> >> My AC 2-year contract ended during 2/04. Two phones. I just moved from
> >> the East Coast to the West Coast and Verizon won't give me a new local
> >> phone number without a new contract.
> >
> >They did it for me. I did an EZ Move to California from Ohio and it
> >did not extend my contract. Did they have you talk to the "EZ Move"
> >department to set up the new numbers?
>
> They won't do it for me because I'm off contract and they don't offer
> the $34.95 contract in my new area (or anywhere else, probably).  I
> tried EZ-Move on the web and it asked me to pick a contract. They start
> at $5 more for services that I have proved over 2 years that I don't
> need. I've called CS several times and each time they say they can't
> help me get a new # if I don't have a contract with them. To tickee, no
> washee.
 
So what's the problem? you don't want to pay the $39 a month for a contract
instead of the $35 a month on your old expired contract?
Sorry, don't know of any way to get stuff for free or at a discount, and
it's pretty obvious that you want something free. Think about it, was
ez-move offered back when you only paid $35? Pay the current price and new
services are available. I don't understand your thinking. You want something
free for nothing?!?!?!?

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"Peter Pan" <Marcs1102GSSPAMMENOT@NOSPAMHotmail.com> wrote in message
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<snip>
>
> So what's the problem? you don't want to pay the $39 a month for a
contract
> instead of the $35 a month on your old expired contract?
> Sorry, don't know of any way to get stuff for free or at a discount,
and
> it's pretty obvious that you want something free. Think about it,
was
> ez-move offered back when you only paid $35? Pay the current price
and new
> services are available. I don't understand your thinking. You want
something
> free for nothing?!?!?!?
>
>
 
Peter: The original poster simply wants to keep what he has had all
these years and just move to the west coast without a contract.
A customer can keep their original plan forever if they so desired as
long as they don't make any changes to their accounts.
 
Since America's Choice is country wide the phone will still work on
the old plan but the original poster wants to get a new cell number
for his plan without getting a new contract which makes sense.
 
You ask for a new number and you have to take a 2 year contract. Come
on!
 
You move from the East Coast to the West Coast and they want you to
take a 2 year contract? Come on!
There is something wrong with all this, would you not agree?
 
Elector

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On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:00:46 -0700, "Peter Pan"
<Marcs1102GSSPAMMENOT@NOSPAMHotmail.com> in his infinite wisdom wrote:
 
>So what's the problem? you don't want to pay the $39 a month for a contract
>instead of the $35 a month on your old expired contract?
>Sorry, don't know of any way to get stuff for free or at a discount, and
>it's pretty obvious that you want something free. Think about it, was
>ez-move offered back when you only paid $35? Pay the current price and new
>services are available. I don't understand your thinking. You want something
>free for nothing?!?!?!?
>
Ease up. I did try to do an EZ Move before I was off contract. My $35
plan wasn't available on the West Coast so they said that I would need
to sign up with a new $40 contract. It's odd that they can extend my
contract for a year because I just signed up to continue detailed
billing, but I still can't get a West Coast phone number. I'm going to
cancel the detailed billing feature today so that they don't, in fact,
extend me. EZ Move doesn't work if a similar contract doesn't exist
where you're moving to. I don't want something for free. I just want a
local phone number, but I can live without it for $60 a year. My phones
still do what I need it to do and my friends on the East Coast can still
call me like it's a local number.

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Felix <felix@bam.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 15:59:53 -0500, Steven J Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
> in his infinite wisdom wrote:
>  
>>Felix <felix@bam.org> wrote:
>>> My AC 2-year contract ended during 2/04. Two phones. I just moved from
>>> the East Coast to the West Coast and Verizon won't give me a new local
>>> phone number without a new contract.
>>
>>They did it for me. I did an EZ Move to California from Ohio and it
>>did not extend my contract. Did they have you talk to the "EZ Move"
>>department to set up the new numbers?
>  
> They won't do it for me because I'm off contract and they don't offer
> the $34.95 contract in my new area (or anywhere else, probably).  
 
Ahhhh... the reason is the latter - it doesn't matter that you're off contract,
the only real reason is because your plan isn't offerred any more.
 
> tried EZ-Move on the web and it asked me to pick a contract. They start
> at $5 more for services that I have proved over 2 years that I don't
> need. I've called CS several times and each time they say they can't
> help me get a new # if I don't have a contract with them. To tickee, no
> washee.
 
They should at least allow you to get into the new plan without a commitment.
Maybe you should escalate and see if you can get anywhere.
 
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Felix wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 23:00:46 -0700, "Peter Pan"
> <Marcs1102GSSPAMMENOT@NOSPAMHotmail.com> in his infinite wisdom wrote:
>
>> So what's the problem? you don't want to pay the $39 a month for a
>> contract instead of the $35 a month on your old expired contract?
>> Sorry, don't know of any way to get stuff for free or at a discount,
>> and it's pretty obvious that you want something free. Think about
>> it, was ez-move offered back when you only paid $35? Pay the current
>> price and new services are available. I don't understand your
>> thinking. You want something free for nothing?!?!?!?
>>
> Ease up. I did try to do an EZ Move before I was off contract. My $35
> plan wasn't available on the West Coast so they said that I would need
> to sign up with a new $40 contract. It's odd that they can extend my
> contract for a year because I just signed up to continue detailed
> billing, but I still can't get a West Coast phone number. I'm going to
> cancel the detailed billing feature today so that they don't, in fact,
> extend me. EZ Move doesn't work if a similar contract doesn't exist
> where you're moving to. I don't want something for free. I just want a
> local phone number, but I can live without it for $60 a year. My
> phones still do what I need it to do and my friends on the East Coast
> can still call me like it's a local number.
 
Exactly.  You can only do EZ Move to a plan *currently* offered in
your destination area.  Naturally VZW wants to move people to current
plans.  This mainly effects customers (whose contract term has expired)
with plans that are no longer offered. I'm not sure if there are cases any
more where a plan that is currently offered in one area is not available in
another -- a couple of people have posted this experience in the past.
They were still under contract but had to move to a different plan in order
to do an EZ Move.
 
-Quick

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Peter Pan wrote:
 
 
>>They won't do it for me because I'm off contract and they don't offer
>>the $34.95 contract in my new area (or anywhere else, probably).
>  
> So what's the problem? you don't want to pay the $39 a month for a contract
> instead of the $35 a month on your old expired contract?
> Sorry, don't know of any way to get stuff for free or at a discount, and
> it's pretty obvious that you want something free. Think about it, was
> ez-move offered back when you only paid $35? Pay the current price and new
> services are available. I don't understand your thinking. You want something
> free for nothing?!?!?!?
 
 
No, he doesn't want "something free for nothing," whatever that means.  
He wants to have what he agreed to before: his old plan at the price  
originally agreed upon between himself and VZW.
 
 
 
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Quick <quick7135-news@nospamyahoo.com> wrote:
 
> Well... "...just because he moved?.." and "forcing him into a contract
> is just shitty."?  As you mention below, nobody is *forcing* anybody.
 
He must extend his contract if he wishes to move and stay with Verizon.
 
> You can always choose another carrier and even (perish the thought)
> do without a cell phone.  There is nothing like deceptive business
> practices here.
 
It isn't deceptive. It's just very customer-unfriendly. "Hey Mr. Customer,
we're rewarding you for being loyal by insisting that you sign another  
agreement if you want to stay with us."  
 
> He is not even under contract anymore (and neither
> is VZW). It is simply a customer retention issue. Do any of the carriers
> offer such a thing?  and what percentage of customers are you addressing?
 
*VERIZON OFFERS IT.* I didn't have to extend my contract because I was on
an AC packaged currently offerred in California when I did my EZ Move. If
you are going to insist that someone sign up for a new plan that they don't
want and charge them more, at least do them the favor of not locking them
into a contract on top of it.
 
Sprint's billing system automatically extended my contract to a year after
I did the move (meaning it ended in July), but a CSR put a note on my account
telling everyone to honor the original date and subsequently I called and
several people confirmed that I was out of contract (the original agreement
ended last November).
 
> I guess that would rule Sprint out?  Saying "seeya" and going to another
> carrier would most likely require a contract with the new carrier right?
 
See my note above. The billing system still says my wife's phone was out
of contract in July 04, not November 03, but they put a note on my account
which said that SPCS was to honor the original date, since I didn't change
*anything* when I moved. (except the phone number)
 
> You might threaten to do that for leverage but it's been my experience
> that VZW doesn't "deal" much, if at all, on general policies.
 
It's not a question of dealing. It's a question of a cellular company being
greedy. It's not so much the plan change I have an issue with, since the
original plan isn't offerred anymore, as much as the contract extension, which
penalizes customers for wanting to stay with Verizon. It's stupid. Not  
deceptive, just stupid.
 
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Steven J Sobol wrote:
>
> It's not a question of dealing. It's a question of a cellular company
> being greedy. It's not so much the plan change I have an issue with,
> since the original plan isn't offerred anymore, as much as the
> contract extension, which penalizes customers for wanting to stay
> with Verizon. It's stupid. Not deceptive, just stupid.
 
You may be right.  But if it's bad for business the number of
effected customers is way below the noise level.
 
What are the customer's choices?  Going with another carrier
will require a contract with the new carrier.  Most people don't
move regularly and would probably not forsee moving again in
the near future (contract term) and would not move to a carrier
solely because they don't have such a policy.  You figure they
were with VZW to begin with for some reason or other that
likely has not changed.  I really don't think VZW would lose
any measurable business on the downside and they get a few
more customers under contract on a current plan.  Sounds like
a good business decision on their part.  I wouldn't call it stupid.
 
-Quick

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Quick <quick7135-news@nospamyahoo.com> wrote:
>> It's not a question of dealing. It's a question of a cellular company
>> being greedy. It's not so much the plan change I have an issue with,
>> since the original plan isn't offerred anymore, as much as the
>> contract extension, which penalizes customers for wanting to stay
>> with Verizon. It's stupid. Not deceptive, just stupid.
>  
> You may be right.  But if it's bad for business the number of
> effected customers is way below the noise level.
 
I'd argue that the number of customers actually affected by this policy
has to be pretty minimal, yes.
 
> likely has not changed.  I really don't think VZW would lose
> any measurable business on the downside and they get a few
> more customers under contract on a current plan.  Sounds like
> a good business decision on their part.  I wouldn't call it stupid.
 
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here; just because only a few
customers are affected doesn't mean it's an intelligent decision on the
part of VZW.  
 
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"Elector" <elector@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Peter Pan" <Marcs1102GSSPAMMENOT@NOSPAMHotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2m16cgFhmfg9U1@uni-berlin.de...
> <snip>
> >
> > So what's the problem? you don't want to pay the $39 a month for a
> contract
> > instead of the $35 a month on your old expired contract?
> > Sorry, don't know of any way to get stuff for free or at a discount,
> and
> > it's pretty obvious that you want something free. Think about it,
> was
> > ez-move offered back when you only paid $35? Pay the current price
> and new
> > services are available. I don't understand your thinking. You want
> something
> > free for nothing?!?!?!?
> >
> >
>
> Peter: The original poster simply wants to keep what he has had all
> these years and just move to the west coast without a contract.
> A customer can keep their original plan forever if they so desired as
> long as they don't make any changes to their accounts.
>
> Since America's Choice is country wide the phone will still work on
> the old plan but the original poster wants to get a new cell number
> for his plan without getting a new contract which makes sense.
>
> You ask for a new number and you have to take a 2 year contract. Come
> on!
>
> You move from the East Coast to the West Coast and they want you to
> take a 2 year contract? Come on!
> There is something wrong with all this, would you not agree?
>
> Elector
>
>
 
He wants to change his number and billing address doesn't he? Whenever I
moved and changed contracts, (I had an old expired/month to month renewal),
and had no problem changing numbers. While I agree that AC is nationwide,
and no LD charges apply when calling, the contract itself is regionally
based, linked to the billing address, and any others out of a local/regional
office (singlerate west, local digital choice etc) don't allow number
changes to an area outside of the local area. How can you change the billing
address without changing the contract? My forms all have name AND address on
it for the person the contract is for. Credit checks when the contracts
start are based on the name AND address of the person.  As an aside, while
going to school, and later when traveling around in my RV, I had the
contract/mailing/billing address at my family home, and it was no problem to
change the number to something local so people locally could call me from
land lines without paying long distance (my reference to ordering pizza with
an out of state number for call back, was from personal experience when I
was in school and ordered/ate a lot of pizza).
 
Look at what you typed... "A customer can keep their original plan forever
if they so desired as long as they don't make any changes to their
accounts", seems to me that changing the number to a different area is
changing the contract, if nothing else, the address changes for sure changes
the account.
 
When I graduated from college, and got local numbers, there  was no renewal
required as long as I kept the same billing address.
 
When I moved out west, I had a contract back east, moved out west, changed
numbers *AND* the billing address (I had moved, obviously I wasn't at the
old address anymore), and that's when the new contract requirement kicked
in. I changed the BILLING address. I can't think of any way NOT to change
the billing address if you move (other than temp/like going to school or
staying somewhere warm for the winter etc)