Best Buy wastes no time throwing Amp'd out of stores

It's hard to say just how long this plan has been brewing, but it seems awfully suspicious that Best Buy and Amp'd parted ways on the very same day that Amp'd decided to sell itself off bit by bit, does it not? Best Buy's weekend employee flier unceremoniously declares that July 20 marks the end of in-store sales -- probably a good idea, we figure, considering that the phones may stop functioning in a few days -- with teams coming in to yank down ads and take hardware. We're also hearing that online account activations aren't working at this point, so getting a new Amp'd handset is pretty freaking hard to do at this point -- not to say you'd want one, anyway.

[Thanks, anonymous tipster]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2007 12:43PM]

Ouch...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2007 5:29PM]

And this is a bad thing? They should continue selling cell service that is going to be defunct soon?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 26th 2007 5:26PM]

Although I only made one payment since I bought the fake service in feb 07. I finally talked to Customer service 2months later. Only to hear that the contract I bought was false, and I must pay the real bill. This company and all their service reps were forceing me to pay way more than I signed for. I was always getting different run around responses for nonsense charges. Plus Placed on hold, and getting a dial tone after 3hrs of waiting. I Was miserable for 5 months stressed over my credit scores. Now I pray that They stop taking advantage of me and all these other customers who were ripped off. T-mobile I'm coming back 7yrs straight and never had to deal with that type of BS that amp'd put me through.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 3rd 2007 11:45AM]

My wife and son bought amp'd mobile several months ago,and had the same problems. Long wait times on the phone,rude and very unprofessional help staff.outragous bills which no one could explain or do anything about. I hope a federal agency investigates these people.Whoever ran the show there needs to go to jail for fraud.