Telstra called me about 2 months back trying to get me to recontract... I'm 6 months out of contract with a $49 business cap that is working completely fine for me... BUT it's only got 1gb of data... Doesn't really bother me because it's bugged and excess data usage gets absorbed into the $550 of included value
The guy on the phone was about 70yo... and he kept saying how he used to work in finance... like 5 times. Good for you buddy, you're working in a call center now though, arent you?
I said to recontract they'd need to increase my data to a usable amount, at no additional cost to me.
He said it wasn't possible and that the best option for me was to buy an ADDITIONAL iPad Contract which came with XXX data/month for only $60... I kept asking if I'd be able to use the data from the ipad contract on my current phone and he kept avoiding the question. So I kept asking if I would be paying more on my phone plan each month than I am now... his response was:
"Your phone plan will stay at $49/month..."
"and how much do I have to pay for 4gb of data on the iPad?"
"Only $60..."
"On top of the cost of my phone plan?"
"Yes."
"So my request was the best option to get a bit more data than 1gb on my phone without paying anything more per month, and your response is that I should pay $109/month for additional data which I cannot use through my phone at all?"
"Yes."
"You should look into a different line of work... Finance clearly didnt work for you, and neither is this..."
*hangup*
Call center staff will say anything for a sale, but this guy was just retarded...
Was also trying to tell me that the Kogan Prepaid Mobile with 12gb of data/month for $199/year wasn't resold through the telstra network... *sigh*
/ragerant
Edit: Oh, that was a lot longer than I planned it to be... on the plus side, it's now past 5pm... HOME TIME BITCHES!