{"id":443,"date":"2006-01-18T01:43:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T01:43:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-18T01:43:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T01:43:26","slug":"bait-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/01\/18\/bait-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Bait &#038; Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m leaving Blackberry land and coming back to my beloved Palm OS.  Other than the email push, the Blackberry absolutely sucks as a calendar and contact management program.  I actually went back to my relatively older Palm Tungsten C to manage my day-to-day existence.  But I have to have my phone and PDA together or else I miss tasks and appointments for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>What pushed me over the edge was a nice deal on a refurbished Treo 650 through Cingular.  We were Bell South Wireless customers when Cingular purchased the company, so we\u2019ve been with them for quite a while now.  My wife and oldest daughter are on the family plan and I\u2019ve had few complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p>The phone arrived today and, after a couple of hours charging, I was set to begin my wonderful Treo life.  The problem was \u2013 I couldn\u2019t hear or speak through the phone.  I\u2019d call other phones and nothing.  So I called Cingular tech support and took it to the retail store.  Everyone concluded that the Treo was broken.<\/p>\n<p>Then the fun began.<\/p>\n<p>I should mention that the refurbished phone cost me $139, about $200 cheaper than a brand new phone.  Refurbished, according to dictionary.com, means \u201cto make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate.\u201d  I called customer service and they agreed to exchange my phone.  The initial response of the rep was that they were having problems with the refurbished models, and was I \u201csure\u201d I wanted another refurbished one?  I asked her if it was Cingular\u2019s policy to sell equipment they knew was broken.  She said no, and her tone changed a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson to be learned here is to not be in a rush to get a refurbished Treo that works from Cingular.  My Blackberry still functions and I can wait.  The savings are significant enough for me to play Treo roulette.  Just have some room on your credit card because you have to order a brand new phone (refurbished in this case) as part of the exchange and pay for it up front.  When the damaged phone arrives at Cingular, there?s a credit issued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m leaving Blackberry land and coming back to my beloved Palm OS. Other than the email push, the Blackberry absolutely sucks as a calendar and contact management program. I actually went back to my relatively older Palm Tungsten C to manage my day-to-day existence. But I have to have my phone and PDA together or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/01\/18\/bait-switch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bait &#038; Switch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}