BlackBerry Storm 9530
Verizon Store on Water St in NYC are a bunch of A$$'s
I called up the Water Street/WallStreet Store 2 days ago and asked them what time they would open today. They told me an hour earlier at 7am. So I decided to get up an hour and a half earlier (4am today) and got to the VZW store at 6:15. Waited in line for a half hour in freezing cold, then a manager came out and said that they are not going to open til 8am now. Freakin BS! I asked why they wouldn't let us in til 8, he said cause security reasons, we need to over see the customers so we dont get stampeded. Heck there were only 12 people in line. And we all work on Wall street. Ya think we will risk going to jail over a Blackberry???
Anyway he took our names down and promised we would be first to get em at 8am. So now I write this to you from a warm Starbucks. But my gut feeling is they want to wait til 8am so they can get a long line brewing and get the press to take news photos or videos of all of us bustling in at 8am and on line then when its light out. THis sure better not be a marketing ploy for the press to make us wait an extra hour. This is a Crackberry for god sake, not an iphone. We are addicts but not Apple zombies. So now I will be late for work.
Verizon sure knows how to squees the vice on us. Im starting to think its a Socialist company.
UGG.
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Sorry for the rants, but its early and cold outside.
UGGG.
Anyway he took our names down and promised we would be first to get em at 8am. So now I write this to you from a warm Starbucks. But my gut feeling is they want to wait til 8am so they can get a long line brewing and get the press to take news photos or videos of all of us bustling in at 8am and on line then when its light out. THis sure better not be a marketing ploy for the press to make us wait an extra hour. This is a Crackberry for god sake, not an iphone. We are addicts but not Apple zombies. So now I will be late for work.
Verizon sure knows how to squees the vice on us. Im starting to think its a Socialist company.
UGG.
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Sorry for the rants, but its early and cold outside.
UGGG.
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It probably truly is security. Their insurance probably won't cover them before normal business hours. You, in case somebody falls and breaks their neck in the stampede.
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Again, I dont think 12 business professionals are going to stampede in. Its not a rock concert and its not an iPhone.
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eric815 said:
Again, I dont think 12 business professionals are going to stampede in. Its not a rock concert and its not an iPhone.
Don't under estimate them, these are the same assholes who sold our economy down the tubes and then wants us to bail them out. Let them have their last hurrah with the Storm.
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Yes, but I work in IT for one of these big firms. I am just a tech guy, not the one who laundered tons of subprime mortgage loans. But yes, I do know the guys there that did. And most of em are gone now. Good riddence to those bastards that forced my company into a buyout and killed my stock portfolio. But as a double edged sword I need to keep my job, so I have to stay neutral on this.
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Dude...the bailouts have been geared more towards the finance industry. We wouldn't even be in this whole bailout mess if the big financial institutions (and consumers) were more responsible with money and didn't use debt like it's some golden ticket. The possible auto industry is different (the government forced them to comply to certain standards they couldn't afford and now they need help), but I wouldn't go so far as to say that it was the cell phone industry who 'sold our economy down the tubes'.
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