Well, come this Friday, I will have a total of four cell phones in my possession. That's right, four. Then three of them go on eBay.
The story began nearly two years ago, with the upgrade of my old TDMA AT&T Wireless phone to their new GSM service. With the upgrade came the LG G4020. However, my parents decided in the past few months that they wanted to upgrade to a family plan, and I was tasked with finding the best deal. The problem: my AT&T contract of two years didn't expire until this September. So, the plan was to go with Cingular (the company that had since bought out AT&T Wireless). This would mean a new SIM card for me, as we would all need Cingular SIMs. Since mine would be an upgrade, though, I wouldn't get any good deals. I had been eyeing a Sony Ericsson k750i, the top-rated phone in the world, for a month or so, so I decided to pick that up. It is quite a nice little phone: 2MP camera, MP3 player, removable memory, and lots more. It is SIM-free, so I can use it on any GSM plan. I also upgraded my plan to Cingular, and with that got the LG C1500. The plan was to then get a three-line family plan, and later add mine onto it. This would allow us to get the deals they only give to new customers on three of the phones.
However, in my research, I discovered that T-Mobile offers the same number of minutes on a family plan as Cingular for $10 less. And to make things more interesting, my new contract with Cingular said that I had 30 days to cancel. So, I decided to see if Cingular bothered to keep my old AT&T contract on file. They didn't! So, I went out to the Cingular store today to cancel my service. When I got there, the guy at the counter asked me if I had purchased my phone there. When I told him I hadn't, he said I would have to call 611 and cancel it that way instead. So apparently Cingular stores don't help all Cingular customers. Anyway, I did manage to cancel the line, and I also ordered a four-line family plan from T-Mobile. And apparently Cingular doesn't want the phone back. So, when I receive the new phones on Friday, I will have the fourth and final phone. All of them but my Sony Ericsson will be put up on eBay.
But of course, that could not be the end of the story. After canceling my Cingular service today, I later turned on my Sony Ericsson to get a phone number off of it. When I did so, I got an SMS from Cingular, welcoming me to their service. So, lucky me, I got to call 611 again. Hopefully two cancellations is all that they need.