Fucking T-Mobile! God Damn It!
So, for the past 4 or 5 years, I had been using a cell phone that was in my mother's name, and she had been paying the bill. Unfortunately, that cell phone was on the "Network with the nation's worst advertising campaign, for which they are currently embroiled in a class action lawsuit, because not only do they not have the fewest dropped calls, they have the most dropped calls(tm)." So, being absolutely fed up with getting constant dropped calls, and combined with the fact that my phone was old and near death (couldn't talk for more than 30 minutes unless it was plugged in, had to be charged multiple times a day even if I wasn't on the phone, etc.), and the fact that I could finally afford to pay my own damn cell phone bill; I decided to switch over to T-Mobile. My fiance already had a T-Mobile account, which was paid current at the time (this was in October), so we decided to just go with a family share plan.
The deal with this plan was that we each got a phone. We each signed up for the additional $4.99 monthly charge for 400 text messages. She got a blackberry, so she has to pay an additional $23.99 or $24.99 monthly. We get a combined total of 700 minutes (plus myfaves, etc.) for which we get charged a total of $69.99 monthly.
It is now January, and we have been through 3 billing cycles. Our bill should be $104.99 (that's $69.99 + 4.99x2 + $24.99) monthly, for a grand total of $314.97. So far, we've had to pay $528.36. And why is that? Oh... that's because they screwed up when they set up our account and each of us is being charged $69.99 per month for the family share plan, and we each have 700 minutes (plus myfaves, etc.) per month, which comes to just under $528.36, and then you throw in some tax and regulatory fees and you have $528.36.
Now I have to get her to call T-Mobile to authorize me to talk to them about billing, so I can call them back and bitch them out for fucking up our billing and demand a refund of the additional $209.97 we've had to pay them.