“Fuck verizon”
08.22.2007While waiting for the Yeah yeah yeahs to take the stage at the Fillmore last night, Verizon wireless had a screen projected on the side of the auditorium displaying text messages sent by people in the venue to a special address. “I love this band!!!!!!,” “I love their sound :),” “Hi mom!” and other inane, boring texts scrolled up the screen.
Rather pissed off by the blatant marketing scheme and curious to see if they did their QA, I decided to send the text, “Fuck Verizon,” to the number and see if it would make its way to the screen. The band came on, I forgot about the text, and never noticed if it showed or not.
This morning I got a text:
Congrats! You won for texting to the screen at the Fillmore, courtesy of Verizon Wireless. Contact Chris at 415-555-5555 to claim your prize!
I called Chris and he told me I won two tickets to any show of my choice at the Filmore. “You’re eating your words now,” he told me. But I wasn’t; I still have the same opinion of Verizon, despite the free tickets. Curious to see if he had the same opinion, I asked, “Did I win randomly or because of what I wrote?” It was random.
So I’m going to see Bebel Gilberto on September 9th courtesy of Verizon Wireless.
August 29th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
can i come?
March 5th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
lol. that is hilarious!
So did Chris tell you how you won the tix?
June 15th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
fuck verizon and every motherfucker who works there. Fuck you all!
January 29th, 2009 at 10:57 am
i couldn’t agree more… FUCK VERIZON!
seriously, try calling them up to get in NY to get your Phones fixed… they run you around for hours and never do anything. They claim things like it’s not on our end, and blame you. They give your info away to scam artists that keep calling everyday “on behalf of Verizon” claiming they can save you money. These scam artists get your account number and take on a commotion which actually raises your bill. When you call Verizon to tell them this is happening, they just make excuses and tell you there is nothing they can do about it, than they try to offer you vios… like seriously they try to ram this vios thing down your throat no matter what you call about. Their isn’t even Vios available in Manhattan, but still they will waste your time telling you about it. I have personally spent more than 2 weeks trying to get my phones back on. They knocked the building down that’s behind mine and we lost all our phones because of it. Verizon refused to do anything and said the problem is on our end. They didn’t do anything till I threatened to cancel and go with another company that actually offers working phones. Than they sent some guy who claimed to fix it but didn’t actually do anything other than mark down that he had fixed it. In the end we canceled with verizon and were charged a $200 for early termination…. a charge for early termination of phones that don’t work?
FUCK VERIZON
October 11th, 2009 at 4:30 am
fuck you nickle and diming motherfuckers.you charge for the least little thing and then dont deliver. Piss off!