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* In what way are you LEAST frugal? - 2 messages, 1 author
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* CallingMart Temporary Coupon Codes (expire 10-23) for T-Mobile Prepaid (10%),
AT&T GoPhone (10%), Tracfone (7%), Verizon InPulse (7%), and PagePlus (7%) -
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TOPIC: In what way are you LEAST frugal?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/18003f4ff7c65165?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 26 2009 8:51 pm
From: "Rod Speed"
Balvenieman wrote:
> Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote
>> People are talking "frugal" without defining it.
> The topic's been discussed ad naseum in the NG for years and
> years. Although, it is doubtful that any single definition would
> satisfy everyone the consensus always has been that whatever,
> subjectively, yields the greatest return, efficient use of resources,
> or higest level of user satisfaction at the time is "frugality".
Its much more complicated than that, particularly what
distinguishes frugality from stinginess/tight as a fish's arsehole.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 26 2009 8:53 pm
From: "Rod Speed"
Balvenieman wrote
> If so certain about this:
>> It isn't possible to define it precisely.
> Then how the certainty about this:
>> Clearly not frugal.
> Or this:
>> Nope. Nothing like frugal.
The word PRECISELY was there for a reason.
If you still dont get it, it would be profitable to explain it to a stone.
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TOPIC: CallingMart Temporary Coupon Codes (expire 10-23) for T-Mobile Prepaid (
10%), AT&T GoPhone (10%), Tracfone (7%), Verizon InPulse (7%), and PagePlus (7%
)
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/t/86bcc24bd96cd169?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 26 2009 11:05 pm
From: Larry
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:4ae5a9a7$0$1616
$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:
> Larry wrote:
>
>> Sure wish when my balance is over $20 the system wouldn't tell me on
>> every call I have $137.85 balance......
>
> Customer service can turn off the balance announcement.
>
I'm going to be calling customer service first thing in the morning,
myself. My Z6m was locked and in my shirt pocket all day today. I reset
the minutes and data timers/counters when I bought this service. Until
today, there has been 0 bytes of data used, 0 minutes of data interconnect
time.
Tonight, the data timer is a little over 3 minutes and the byte counter
suddenly reads a little over 37KB of data usage I'm not going to be paying
for. The phone was on, it has no email account or any addresses in any
system. They were all carefully deleted before PagePlus. Why would it run
a couple of weeks before suddenly using 37KB of overpriced Verizon data?
I intend to find out that answer and how to stop it in the morning....
I'll dump this Z6m for a phone-only CDMA phone tomorrow if I'm told it
can't be stopped. SOMETHING called into my phone today....I didn't even
get a single voice call all day! There are no messages, there's no browser
loaded into its BREW and I never had any apps, and the phone was LOCKED
when it happened.
--
Larry
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Mon, Oct 26 2009 11:14 pm
From: SMS
Larry wrote:
> Tonight, the data timer is a little over 3 minutes and the byte counter
> suddenly reads a little over 37KB of data usage I'm not going to be paying
> for. The phone was on, it has no email account or any addresses in any
> system. They were all carefully deleted before PagePlus. Why would it run
> a couple of weeks before suddenly using 37KB of overpriced Verizon data?
Who knows? Could have been something someone sent you, i.e. MMS. 37KB at
$1.20/MB would cost you less than a nickel. Don't spend too much time
with customer service over that much money!
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