LordOfDarkness
The Dark Avenger © †
Okay, so for the last year and a half, my mobile phone history has been just terrible. It's been the worse out of anybody that I know. I'll admit, mostly due to my carelessness, my phones have been damaged. Ultimately leading up to them not working at all. At other times it's been accidents. My most recent annoyance regarding my mobile, was at work. When I took it out of my pocket, my screen had completely crashed. The phone only properly displayed things when it was on lock.
Much to my anger, considering that's the fourth phone I have had in just over a year, I take it to a phone repair store in Town. The guy explains to me that there is a common fault with my phone, that means a piece inside can easily break. The Company say they will send it to Sony Ericsson (The makers of my phone) who will then fix it, and send it back, for me to collect. And for this I will have to spend £25, to fix a problem that I didn't even cause.
My history starts like this.
The first phone I buy works fine. I purchase it for around £80. It's going good, then I got into a rough time and needed to call a friend, but my battery died. So I hit it and damaged the back of it quite bad. Later on in the month the phone gets stolen anyway. My bad luck only just begins. Damaging the phone was my fault, but it did still work. It getting stolen was never my fault.
So I go and buy a new phone, a touch screen. My touch screen phone costs me about £120, so not cheap. After a few months of it being good as gold, I take it into the shower (Big mistake) I left it on the side. Just a small amount of water, due to condensation, and the phone dies completely. So I purchase a new phone.
This phone cost me around £80 also. It worked great, and I can't exactly remember what happened to it, but it started being really slow. I sold it to a friend and got a new one, because it was just being annoying.
My fourth and favourite phone, purchased for £90. This is the phone I mentioned first, the one that crashed, and I have to pay to be repaired. Well, I am left without a phone for about a week. So the same day it gets sent off, I go and buy a cheap temporary phone for just £15. It does your basic texting and ringing, all I require for a week.
I get home late at night, feeling tired, phone in hand. I am going to go to the toilet. The toilet had been flushed, it was clean water, but before I could go my temporary phone slips from my half asleep hand and splashes into the toilet itself. I pull it out as quickly as I can, trying to rescue it. Drying the phone, and leaving the parts on their own to dry overnight. Two days since, and the phone is still dead. My temporary phone, and technically my fifth phone is dead. And I am still left with no phone, and still waiting three days for my phone to return. Before I am charged a price to pay for something I never broke in the first place.
Needless to say, I am outraged. I have spent about £385 on mobile phones in the last year and a bit. A lot of money, including all my phone top-ups also.
The least Sony Ericsson could do is send my phone back to my address, free of charge. I am contacting them about this to complain. It's the very least they could do.
So if your mobile phone history has been bad, or worse than mine, please tell me so here. Just so we can all share feelings and vent about it.
Much to my anger, considering that's the fourth phone I have had in just over a year, I take it to a phone repair store in Town. The guy explains to me that there is a common fault with my phone, that means a piece inside can easily break. The Company say they will send it to Sony Ericsson (The makers of my phone) who will then fix it, and send it back, for me to collect. And for this I will have to spend £25, to fix a problem that I didn't even cause.
My history starts like this.
The first phone I buy works fine. I purchase it for around £80. It's going good, then I got into a rough time and needed to call a friend, but my battery died. So I hit it and damaged the back of it quite bad. Later on in the month the phone gets stolen anyway. My bad luck only just begins. Damaging the phone was my fault, but it did still work. It getting stolen was never my fault.
So I go and buy a new phone, a touch screen. My touch screen phone costs me about £120, so not cheap. After a few months of it being good as gold, I take it into the shower (Big mistake) I left it on the side. Just a small amount of water, due to condensation, and the phone dies completely. So I purchase a new phone.
This phone cost me around £80 also. It worked great, and I can't exactly remember what happened to it, but it started being really slow. I sold it to a friend and got a new one, because it was just being annoying.
My fourth and favourite phone, purchased for £90. This is the phone I mentioned first, the one that crashed, and I have to pay to be repaired. Well, I am left without a phone for about a week. So the same day it gets sent off, I go and buy a cheap temporary phone for just £15. It does your basic texting and ringing, all I require for a week.
I get home late at night, feeling tired, phone in hand. I am going to go to the toilet. The toilet had been flushed, it was clean water, but before I could go my temporary phone slips from my half asleep hand and splashes into the toilet itself. I pull it out as quickly as I can, trying to rescue it. Drying the phone, and leaving the parts on their own to dry overnight. Two days since, and the phone is still dead. My temporary phone, and technically my fifth phone is dead. And I am still left with no phone, and still waiting three days for my phone to return. Before I am charged a price to pay for something I never broke in the first place.
Needless to say, I am outraged. I have spent about £385 on mobile phones in the last year and a bit. A lot of money, including all my phone top-ups also.
The least Sony Ericsson could do is send my phone back to my address, free of charge. I am contacting them about this to complain. It's the very least they could do.
So if your mobile phone history has been bad, or worse than mine, please tell me so here. Just so we can all share feelings and vent about it.
