My phone is off-contract on August 10th, which is pretty exciting for me. I thought I would wait all the way through until my contract was up, because then I’d qualify for “new every two” – a much touted feature when we’d originally bought our handsets. Apparently they took that feature away from sub-lines “quite some time ago”, so I wouldn’t qualify for it anyway.
So I decided to call up on Thursday, after Sabriena watched one too many videos on the “Droid Does” website. The glowing red allure of giant oversized novelty pulse oximeters had their tractor beam trained on her, and she was really excited about the idea of it. She couldn’t understand why I wanted one, and then she watched the videos of all the neat stuff they can do.
So I’m on the phone with a Verizon rep, knowing full well even if I ordered them that day, it wouldn’t ship until the 4th… then I was told no way, no how, I would have to wait until the 10th to re-up my contract. I can’t order the phone right then and jump the inevitable queue, I would have to actually call back on the tenth.
I was a little bummed, but today I decided to call back and bug them again – maybe being a little closer to my freedom date they’d be more inclined to put the lasso back on me for another two years. Today, they offer me some “special upgrade offer” where I can order one today and blah blah blah. Awesome, so I place the order – and now they’re back-ordered until the 18th.
So I’m a little butt-hurt I’ve got to wait an extra two weeks because they took three days to offer me a deal that any salesman worth his salt would have offered someone who was two weeks away from being able to switch carriers anyway. 
