5 times the fun? Nope!

5 times the fun? Nope! was Originally Posted on July 11, 2005 by lavarock

What would you do if all of a sudden, you go into your local store to buy a candy bar and that candy bar, overnight, went from 50 cents to $2.50? Your two options would be to 1) Not buy that particular candy bar anymore or 2) Find the same candy bar elsewhere at a cheaper price.

Verizon Wireless just sent me a little note that beginning August 1st, the cost to receive a text message has gone from 2 cents to 10 cents per message. Sening a message still costs 10 cents.

While 10 cents per message sound like a small amount, it is the giant increase that bothers me. This is a typical ploy of the old telephone company. Charge a little, then when everyone relies upon the service, charge them extra.

Can you imagine how much money Verizon Wireless will make in August because people don’t realize the increase? Verizon is not the only company to make lots of monet on text messaging. With people sending news items, stock updates, Yahoo messages and so on, text messaging can cost more a month than your monthly talk time!

When I called to block text messaging I made sure to have them note that the ONLY reason I am blocking the messages is the giant increase on Verizon’s part. Whether that does any good or not, who knows but at least I voted with my feet!

Should cell phone rates increase dynamically, I” be off to another provider. I have no problems with Verizon Wireless and chose them because they had the best service and customer relations here in Hawaii.

I’m just not going to pay a 500% increase becase they want more money!