Dumb boyfriend + greedy cell phone company = GRRRRRR

[wizzrobe]

So I go to use my cell phone today, and instead of my call going through, I get "your Sprint PCS phone line has been temporarily disabled because you have exceeded your spending limit". To which I say "WTF", because I paid the phone bill in full two weeks ago, and the spending limit is $200 while the bill itself is only $80 (this is for two phones, mine and Eddy's). So I go look up my invoice on Sprint's website. The portion of the bill for my phone line is perfectly normal, but Eddy has somehow managed to accrue over $100 in fees on top of the regular charges. He just switched phones, so there's a $36 "phone upgrade fee" - total bullshit that they even charge for that, but whatever, it's a one-time thing, so I can deal. He also downloaded $11 worth of goodies, a ringtone and a couple of backgrounds I think. For this he is stupid, because cell phone goodies are abso-fucking-incredibly overpriced. You can make and/or download stuff like that for free on a computer, and the only thing keeping you from transferring said stuff from your computer to your phone is the greedy-ass cell phone companies and the crappy feature locks they put on phones. Anyway. The largest fee on the list is $50 for "PCS data", no further description offered. I figure Eddy's been browsing the internet on his phone while at work (for which he will DIE), so I call Sprint Customer Service (actually not too bad an experience) to find out for sure. What I find out is that the PCS data charge is for downloading the goodies he bought from Sprint's network to his phone. That's right, not only do they charge an insane amount for the stuff itself, they also charge 2 CENTS A KILOBYTE to download said stuff so that you can actually USE it. So Eddy's actual cost for those already overpriced bits of electronic kitsch is something like 20 bucks a pop. And now I have to make a payment to get our bill back under $200 and wait for it to go through just so I can use my goddamn phone.

*GOES ON RAMPAGE, DESTROYS ALL HUMANS*

The irony of it all is that the call I was going to make was to Eddy to tell him that I found a nice-looking condo for a decent price online. I really want to get our own place, and I've been paying off debt like mad to get my finances in order so that we can get a house or a condo. And now I find out that he's wasting money on stupid crap like this... Somebody's getting an earful when he gets home.