{"id":4849,"date":"2010-11-20T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T17:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2010-11-20T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T17:54:47","slug":"verizon-wireless-really-screwed-up-the-samsung-tab-with-pricing-and-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/verizon-wireless-really-screwed-up-the-samsung-tab-with-pricing-and-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Wireless really screwed up the Samsung Tab with pricing and policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>First off, if you purchase from Verizon Wireless and decide that the Tab is not for you, you will be hit with a $70 restocking fee. If that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not bad enough, if you return it after three days of having purchased it, you will not be credited back your $35 activation fee either. Oh, did I forget to tell you about that fee? Yeah, in addition to the price of acquisition, Verizon also throws a $35 activation fee onto your first bill.<\/p>\n<p>The above would be bad enough, but it gets worse. The receipt that you get when you purchase the Tab has an estimated monthly bill on it. Since I opted for the $20 per month for 1GB, the first estimated monthly payment was a whopping $88.36!! Needless to say, this sounded alarm bells so I called Verizon Wireless to discuss it. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I found out:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The truth behind Verizon&#8217;s pricing of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/mobile-gadgeteer\/verizon-wireless-really-screwed-up-the-samsung-tab-with-pricing-and-policy\/4153\">Samsung Tab<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, if you purchase from Verizon Wireless and decide that the Tab is not for you, you will be hit with a $70 restocking fee. If that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not bad enough, if you return it after three days of having purchased it, you will not be credited back your $35 activation fee either. Oh, did <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/verizon-wireless-really-screwed-up-the-samsung-tab-with-pricing-and-policy\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,23],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->