Having a bad day..

[alehhandro]

My mobile phone's dead. I was unfortunate enough to have to walk in the pouring rain today for 15 minutes and got completely drenched. Trying to get beloved VerizonWireless to switch me to the old phone that I luckily haven't thrown away for some reason... Hopefully tomorrow, when a live service rep. can talk to me, they'll figure something out

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alternatively

[madeinmoscow]

bring the new phone to any verizon store and they will do a simple esn number change. it's easy, i would do it for you right now, but i'm off.

Re: alternatively

[alehhandro]

yeah, well supposedly i am supposed to be able to do it from online...
i went and filled out this form in my profile with the ESN, and it said "Successfully switched to phone. Now dial *228 to complete the programming". When I do that it tells me that it can't do anything with my number...

turn off both of your phones

[madeinmoscow]

then dial *22890 on your new phone. press 1 when prompted.

how's that different from *228? anyway, i tried both.

[alehhandro]

"I am sorry, but we're unable to program your phone at this time. Your number is either invalid or disconnected. Please try your call again later or contact your service provider."

Stupid automated shit. I am sure if you were on the case, I'd be operational in no time..

[aite]

Wait, is your phone not working because it got drenched?

[alehhandro]

yep, most definitely. but is that what i'll say when i come to the service center to ask for a new one? not sure, yet :)

[vasechkin]

во всех новых телефонах есть индикатор "water damage" - где-то под батарейкой

[inostranka]

Розовенькая точечка на самой батерейке.
Кстати, насколько я понимаю, никакой разницы, что ты им скажешь - у тебя же небось не было страховки. А без нее - только скидка на телефон раз в 2 года, независимо от обстоятельств.