BS'ing sales reps not withstanding*, the retentions girl I finally talked to after 40 minutes offered a great deal (to me, but seemingly a standard retentions deal) without really doing anything**, so I re-upped.
I get:
-250 daytime minutes
-unlimited evenings/weekends from 6 pm
-Caller ID and Visual Voicemail
-6 GB data
-100 sent text messages + unlimited received
-100 canadian long distance minutes
Taxes in is about $53.00/month, which is just shy of $40 lower than my previous bill, without compromising anything I actually use. Finally, I got the go-ahead to drop by a Rogers store or an Apple store and pick up my iPhone4 (assuming I can find one) for the discounted price.
Whoop whoop!
* One sales guy actually told me he was "jealous" of my $92/month plan, giving me some sob story about how he's with Virgin Mobile and paying $50/month for "like nothing" and how it would cost him $120/month to get what I have. Every single one I talked to told me there was likely "nothing that can be done" about reducing my rate, then they tried to sell me something else!. What a crock of crap, but rather understandable--I probably should have just pressed the "cancel service" button instead ...
** For those like me who have no idea what to say, I mentioned I was interested in renewing my contract and wanted to see what they could offer me that was cheaper than what I currently paid, I also asked what my cancellation charge would be as I was considering other options. I said I thought I was paying for more minutes than I really used (true) and also I didn't really use nearly as many text messages as I had allotted (true), but said I liked the data plan (true). I asked her if there was some special plan I could get that wasn't on the web site that would be cheaper in those areas, and that's what got the ball rolling. I also rather innocently asked what the per-minute long distance charges was and managed to get the 100 LD minutes thrown in without a fuss.
