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(and i work in IT and occasionally check this forum .... what f@#$%^@^# chance does joe soap on the street have of knowing about this!!!). These bastards have been raping away whilst smiling to the media and punting their "services".
another 6 months and I am taking a big ol dump on my last iCursed statement, and Shaun whathisface can go play blindfolded with his thingimajig up his youknowwhat, in rush hour traffic for all I care. And to all you chaps out there fighting the good fight...RESPECT!I for one had no idea about this whole package change thing and have been happily paying the old full price for my 3GB pro classic
get p!ssed off just thinking about it ....
That sounds like a good plan. Perhaps try to arrange with Aki/their show producer that you send them some info ahead of the time (so they can get a basic understanding already) and maybe you call them the next day or so to chat about it on air.
I've got a feeling that pressure from 702 would force them to go on air but i agree that they'll just serve up the same old BS excuses and baffle everyone as best as possible. Which is why the e-mail that is sent to 702 ahead of time should probably be broken up into two parts .... the first part giving the high-level gist of the story and the second part detailing some of iCrap's responses received thus far and why they are BS/unacceptable. That will then at least give JR some ammo to come back at them with when they try to give the same press release BS.
Agreed.
The crux of it really (well .. for me at least), is that they were completely unethical in "launching new products" but not at least notifying their customers that they have the option to migrate. They essentially screwed their existing customers to make a quick buck. I can tell you now that if you go and run the numbers you will most certainly find that they have made an absolute fortune from this whole thing!!! I didn't hear/see a single advert advising customers of this. They should've communicated this through an aggressive advertising campaign as well as several other more ethical actions taken.
Further to that, they are hiding behind the auspices of ... "The decision not to automatically migrate current subscribers to the new packages was influenced by feedback obtained from a significant number of customers requesting not to be migrated without their consent.". What BS!!!!!!!
First of all where is the evidence of this so called process/feedback? there isn't any because it was prob never done.
Secondly, if they did actually ask customers ... i would like to know how they posed the question to these so-called customers because i'd venture to say that it was something like "Would you like us to migrate you automatically when our new packages launch?" ..... which the obvious answer to is always going to be "No" since people would be afraid that they would get migrated to more expensive packages and be liable for payment.
I doubt the question posed was "Would you like us to migrate you automatically when our new packages launch on the condition that the new package is at least at the same level or better as your current one and is also cheaper?". I can't see how any sane human being would answer that same question with a "No". Bottom line is that, if they even did tell anyone, they left out the handy details such as the fact that several of these new packages are providing the same amount of data at a cheaper rate because no person in their right mind would ask not be migrated to a package with same or higher cap that is cheaper!!
f%@#$%^#^ c$%@!@#
