To Call or Not to Call

Why do I get the feeling that phone companies have nothing better to do in winter than grab peoples attention with 'super great deals' that in the end will cost you more?
Turns out I wrote a post about this last June, so definitely a winter thing for them.
Once again the phone companies have been calling offering us a super great deal if we transfer our provider to them. You know the calls....the ones where everything will be much cheaper than you current provider as long as you are prepared to tell them what you are currently paying and then they will undercut that provider just enough to tempt you to change, to then only screw you in 12 months time!

It got me thinking though, why was I hearing from all the companies that wanted me but not from the company that had me and could explain why I should stay with them?
A quick call to my provider and suddenly I had saved $25 of my home phone.

"Yes madame we can do something for you....did you know the current plan you are on has been discontinued 18 months ago?......Wonder why they didn't call me to change it? Oh yea I know because I am currently paying them more money than the other plans are and so why turn down a customers money!...Did you also know that by continuing to keep you mobile phone with the same company you can save even more off your home bill? ......Again something I didn't know and could have gained benefit from for at least the past 12 months!....Oh and do you want to rejig your mobile plan while you are on the phone madame?"

Suddenly our home phone bill has been cleaned up and is now cheaper and I remembered that someone had called me to discuss my mobile plan a few weeks ago, in fact it was on the day I was going to have surgery and I was definitely not in the right head space at the time to discuss my mobile plan and the great new advantages I could get by changing plans! So I asked her to call back in a few weeks time, which she never did funnily enough!

This lead us to visit the shop of the mobile phone company because I was also interested in maybe, possibly getting a new phone. Something a little more user friendly maybe.
1 hour later and I walked out with a new phone, a new calling plan that fits my life and 1 very happy customer.

And the greatest thing about my phone?

The text messages show up like a little conversation. How super cool and cute is that?
Funny the little things in life that make you happy!

New Toy for Me

Finally after 6 months of saying I needed this I went out and brought myself one.

A new phone that is. My old one finally died a sad death on me.

This new one has all the bells and whistles, not that I needed all that, but that is what they all come with nowadays!

So, blue tooth, MP3 player, radio, camera and calendar later I have a pretty cute phone.

It is a Nokia 6234, easy to use and so nice to look at.

Phones

When Steve and I got new mobiles last year, we gave the old ones to the boys to play with (took the battery out)

Anyway, they didn't seem too interested in them for a while, but like all toys they come back round again.

So with my brother and family now in Rotorua and Grandma and Grandad in Dubai, you frequently hear Ben or Alex talking away to someone, having a really indepth conversation.

Shame the phone doesn't work!

Although with Steve in Hamilton all week then the boys are getting to talk on the phone to Steve each night. Ben is getting really good at this and tells Daddy every little thing, Alex is still very shy and will say a few words but would rather just sit and listen.