Hope Everyone Had a Good Thanksgiving

A bit late but I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving. I saw some videos online and it’s just crazy with Black Friday. People lining up at like 4am to get into Best Buy. People waiting on line for days for a PS3. Is it really worth it? Here’s the deal with Black Friday - for electronics you’re usually getting second rate merchandise. It’s basically older inventory they’re trying to get rid of. You’re usually not going to find great deals on high quality stuff. But for general consumers I guess it doesn’t really matter.

I haven’t been posting much lately mostly because I’m kind of busy. I had another wisdom tooth removed on Monday. This one required oral surgery because it was lodged underneath my gums. I’ve been popping ibuprofen (pain killers, Advil is ibuprofen) since then and there’s a bump on my cheek because it’s swollen. It looks like someone wacked me in the jaw or something.

I have to renew my Verizon Wireless contract soon - well, I don’t have to but I’d like to get a new phone. I’m on a Family Share plan with my mom and she needs a new phone too. I want to get the new LG VX8600 (this is basically the flip version of the Chocolate). Thin phone, good features. With New Every Two I can get it for $30. My mom likes the RAZR but it’s going to cost $50. I’m going to call them up and see if I can haggle 2 free phones out of them for signing a new 2 year contract. If not, there’s always Cingular. Do they want to get 2 years of monthly fees from me at an $80 cost or do they want to lose me as a customer? It’s up to them. I might even ask for 2 LG VX8600’s. Maybe the new KRZR. I don’t know how far they’ll be willing to bend over to retain me but we’ll see.

This also works for things like cable and Internet access. It never hurts to ask - just call up the company and tell them about competing services with lower fees and tell them you’re considering switching. Sometimes they will lower your fees or give you other incentives to stay.

Speaking of Verizon (landline service), someone over there called and was asking about why I had left them a while ago and described some new deals they have. I said I switched to a VOIP service called SunRocket and she sounded like she had no idea what I was talking about. Then she told me they have a new deal for unlimited local and long-distance calling for $36.99 a month. Uh, no, I’m paying less than $14/month ($199 for 15 months) right now for the same thing and includes call waiting, caller ID, and voicemail. I just told her I’m on an annual contract (not true since you can cancel SunRocket at anytime and get a prorated refund).

Yea this post kind of went no where and is somewhat boring. Whatever. My mouth hurts.