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Infonic Rebate Scam

by machinery-man Jan 20, 2006 9:33AM PST

Received a couple of notices that one of my rebates would be fullfiled. It was like touting that they were doing the right thing by the agreement. Anyway I'll believe it when I see it. I think there is an underlying conspircy with this who cellphone business. I spoke to a manager at Cingular and told him one of his contractor/agent was frauding the public. He did the run around also by saying I didn't buy the phone from Cingular and these were independant contractors. But I said they were authorized to represent the Cingular service. He said I had a seperate contract with Infonic. I never heard of this and have no paperwork to support this. My rebates were mentioned in the Cingular folder and were on a seperate sheet from Infonic/Intelenet or whatever. I don't think Cingular cares as all these cats are screwing the public. I suggested to the Cingular manager that their action as their representative in my opinion voided the Cingular contract. In this current big business screw the public market place all these boys are in this together. I'm not so sure that they haven't paid off some politicans along the way. Am really pi****** in Kentucky.

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Infonic Scam

by machinery-man Jan 21, 2006 8:26AM PST

Went to post office today and received another one of those little special rate cards from Continental Promotions and it said I don't get a rebate as cellphone bill was paid. Spoke to Cingular today and they vouched that the bill I sent had $0.00 balance. I would recommend to ANYONE to abandon internet purchase of cellphones. You are bring on a first class scam. Cingular doesn't care, Infonic doesn't care, Continental Promotions doesn't care, the India panhandler for Infonic doesn't care, and personaly I'm not sure that CNET or any of the online service care as they still tout their products. CNET should be ashamed to give them air time, but am thankful for CNET that they honor the first amendment.

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