I have a one year contract which ends in March (4 more months). Called Verizon, to get out it would cost me $140, that's a prorate of $5 off every month. Better than $175 but not by much and definately not worth it. I will either do an "Assumption of Liability" to get out of my contract, if I can find someone else to take it over before it ends, or just wait till it expires.
Contracts in general are terribly inconvenient for consumers and feel unfair. I finished a 2 year contract a year ago and became a month to month customer. Started job hunting and had to up my plan minutes which required a 1 month contract! I should have just switched carriers at that point.
Carriers need to stop treating customers like prisoners and more like customers. Technology changes too quick for us to be trapped to a single provider for a long period of time. Trapping customers to a single provider slows the development of new technologies, as many of the people who would like to adopt said technologies can't because they are constantly trapped in contracts with technology that is a year or two old.
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I have a one year contract which ends in March (4 more months). Called Verizon, to get out it would cost me $140, that's a prorate of $5 off every month. Better than $175 but not by much and definately not worth it. I will either do an "Assumption of Liability" to get out of my contract, if I can find someone else to take it over before it ends, or just wait till it expires.
Contracts in general are terribly inconvenient for consumers and feel unfair. I finished a 2 year contract a year ago and became a month to month customer. Started job hunting and had to up my plan minutes which required a 1 month contract! I should have just switched carriers at that point.
Carriers need to stop treating customers like prisoners and more like customers. Technology changes too quick for us to be trapped to a single provider for a long period of time. Trapping customers to a single provider slows the development of new technologies, as many of the people who would like to adopt said technologies can't because they are constantly trapped in contracts with technology that is a year or two old.