Broken Modem
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****So.......my internet went out yesterday just about an hour before my ebay auctions closed. Not good, not good at all. *
****By the time I talked to Verizon in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and was told someone would be out between 9am and 5pm, my nerves were a bit raw.
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****Technician gets here at 4pm and within 3 minutes of arrival says, "your modem has issues." Things at Verizon don't break, they "have issues."
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****"Great, says I, "get out a new one."
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****"I realize they are small and I could easily carry 30 or 40 on my truck," he says, "but they don't allow that. *You'll have to go to Best Buy or even WalMart unless you want to wait three days for us to mail you one."
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****Right! WalMart, my favorite shopping experience. *In the meantime I'll scoot down to the library and send out my ebay invoices. Wrong! * The library is closed due to a pipe in the computer room that "had issues", too. *Perhaps my modem and the pipe could get together for a bit of group therapy and work on their issues.
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****Obviously, the new ($79.95) modem is working. *And on that "issue" - explain to me why I pay Verizon every month for the privilege of using their DSL service and they charge me an arm and a leg for their modem?
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****Therese over at Aussie Coffee Shop has given me an award but I must wait until later to post it and pass this glorius award on. RCIA class awaits me........
8 comments:
I swear, if I get a person who is NOT in the 50 U.S. States when I call for tech support, I hang up! thank you very much! and call the main HQ for my phone service. I repeat the story of what happened last time I had an "issue" with my computer and the nice gentleman from India decided to send a guy out to check my lines - and it was an issue in their own office that had all my neighbors out of service for about 8 hours... And then I say, "Do you understand why I want to talk to someone who knows what they are doing, and not merely reading from some crap script?"
I've also bought my last modem through my ISP. I think they make outrageous profits off the equipment.
Computers can be a pain, no question. I have a laptop I use for work and about 3 months ago a vacuum cleaner got close to it, and it hasn't worked right ever since. I've had it looked at several times, all to no avail. And talking to tech-support folks is no fun, for all the obvious reasons. So, I sympathize with your plight!
Have you any "viewmaster" stuff over on ebay?
Belinda - No, sorry.
Because of the computer being out I don't have anything up. I like all my auctions to go up on Sunday night for 7 days so I missed my window of opportuniy... I might try some 5 day ones tomorrow.
It's getting way too close to Christmas and sales drop so it makes no sense to list...
Well I am wondering if the outages in the N.E. have made the bids go down. Usually during outages I assumed that it was more of a buyers market. Even though it's almost Christmas. I plan on buying reels in Jan/ Feb. When everyones MasterCard bills come due from Chirstmas. I plan on selling in the spring. Maybe- I have to plan a wedding.
I've given you an award as well:) You never can have too many!!
I too have been having "issues" with my wireless signal. I called Qwest and they sent me a new modem but that didn't help. I called again and the pinged the lines and said I sohouldn't have any more problems and that lasted about a day. I started to think the problem was with my desktop where the modem was connected but that doesn't seem to be the problem either. Frustrating!
Sorry for the errors. Typing too fast :)
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