{"id":954,"date":"2015-03-18T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travway.net\/?p=954"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:20:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:20:53","slug":"survey-for-verizon-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/2015\/03\/18\/survey-for-verizon-wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey for Verizon Wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we switched cell carriers from Verizon Wireless to Straight Talk. It wasn&#8217;t an on a whim type situation, rather I had did the research and contemplated other carriers as well. Our account with Verizon was officially closed earlier this month or later last month (I don&#8217;t really remember).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they asked me to fill out a survey without reward. Normally I don&#8217;t do this but I figured others had left for the same reasons I did so I thought it might be good to chime in and let them know how I felt.<\/p>\n<p>Their survey was worded in such that they realized that people jumped ship because of the loss\/unavailability of unlimited data, but in reasons\/incentives for returning, unlimited data was not an option. So basically, it is off the table.<\/p>\n<p>In the open area with the question of: &#8220;What would Verizon need to do to gain you back as a customer? Please be specific&#8221; I decided to have a bit of fun with it.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>&lt;Begin&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Let me start by saying<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I liked Verizon&#8217;s coverage.<\/li>\n<li>I liked Verizon&#8217;s customer service.<\/li>\n<li>I liked Verizon&#8217;s phone options.<\/li>\n<li>I liked Verizon&#8217;s website manager for my account.<\/li>\n<li>I did not like Verizon&#8217;s pricing structure.<\/li>\n<li>I did not like killing off grandfathered plans with throttled data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was pretty happy with Verizon for the duration that we had them, until the change was made to eliminate unlimited data. As a customer with an IT background, you would have a pretty hard time to proving to me that offering unlimited data to customers is costing you money.\u00a0 More or less, it was a decision made on Verizon&#8217;s behalf to increase sales.<\/p>\n<p>I am ok with a business needing to do what it takes to stay in business but I don&#8217;t see this as something that was costing Verizon money.<\/p>\n<p>So what would it take to get me back&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Two decent Android phones for a reasonable cost or free.<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited everything on those phones without penalty or throttling at a certain rate.<\/li>\n<li>A one page contract with no more than 200 words.<\/li>\n<li>A nice bouquet of red and black balloons filled with helium and weighted down with the said two phones.<\/li>\n<li>A large bag of kettle corn, made authentically. Large bag = 45 gallons or more.<\/li>\n<li>Our same numbers, ported back (we kept them).<\/li>\n<li>A large auto renewing sponsorship to the Waffle House Iowa Project (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wafflehouseiowa.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.wafflehouseiowa.org<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>A ride around the block on the back of a tricycle while one of your sales reps pedals.<\/li>\n<li>Cases for the said two phones.<\/li>\n<li>Convince PepsiCo to bring back Crystal Pepsi.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you can make these happen, I&#8217;d be happy to return as a customer to you. If not, no hard feelings and perhaps you will have better luck getting others back.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Former Customer T-rav<\/p>\n<p>&lt;end&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we switched cell carriers from Verizon Wireless to Straight Talk. It wasn&#8217;t an on a whim type situation, rather I had did the research and contemplated other carriers as well. Our account with Verizon was officially closed earlier this month or later last month (I don&#8217;t really remember). Anyway, they asked me to fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-letters","category-waffle-house-iowa-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travway.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}