Worst of Woot: Random Phone Cases

@narfcake and it's all your fault!!!

@narfcake I blame @narfcake for that. Oh wait that's you LOL

@narfcake I'm a fellow Windows Phone user. Started with a Samsung Focus on OS 7. Now I have a Lumia 920 that I had on DP 8.1 but have recently loaded Windows 10 Mobile. Love it.

@Foxborn @narfcake is = John McCain

@er1c That's taking it too far. Goat, not politician.

@Stumpy91 Lumia 521 here. 2 years ago, it was the most usable sub-$150 smartphone. I'll most likely get the 640 when it comes out.

@narfcake What is the best way to save money on a windows phone? I am beyond my 2 year contract with AT&T and can take my phone somewhere else. I'm tired of the $100+ monthly cost of my wife's and my phone.

@Stumpy91 if you are a heavy data user, straight talk BYOD is the way to go, its $48ish a month after tax for unlmited talk text and 3 gigs of data. if you use very little data and need AT&T service, i use H20 wireless for my brother , its $30 a month on the att network for unlimited talk text and 500MBs of data.

@Stumpy91 Get it fully unlocked since you're well past the contract terms! Beyond that, what's your monthly data usage like on the 2 lines? That's the bigger factor these days when it comes to pricing, as $25 already gets unlimited minutes/texts.

@Stumpy91 Expanding on that, Cricket Wireless may be a good bet as they discount the additional lines. The basic plan with 2.5gb (throttled afterwards) is $40 on the first and $30 on the second, so $70 for the two of you. More, it's $90 for 3 and $100 for 4 or 5 lines.

@narfcake Thanks for the info. Our combined data usage is 2 - 2.5 GB/mo. There's a Cricket store by my house so I could pop in there and talk to them. What's involved in unlocking the phone? AT&T actually informed us it could be done. Are they required to do that?

@Stumpy91 Unlocking is usually just entering a code into the phone. They're informing customers because of all the legal issues they've been in; here, phones are locked here in the US on the aspect that it was subsidized by the phone company ... except after the contract is up, shouldn't that phone be 100% the user's now? In other countries, phones are unlocked, bought outright, and can operate on any carrier there.

If service has been fine with AT&T's network, you'll be fine with Cricket too.

@narfcake I don't have a problem with the AT&T network that isn't a problem with all networks I believe. Cellular reception is very poor in our house. I actually bought an AT&T 3G Microcell to give us reception in the house. If I leave AT&T I suppose I'll lose the ability to use that. I suppose I could replace it with something like an Ooma and connect our cellphones via bluetooth. Do you know of any other way to improve cellphone reception in a home?

@Stumpy91 unlocking att phones are a pain but thanks to new unlocking laws, they have to do it. start here https://www.att.com/deviceunlock wait for an email in 3 or so business day and continue from there

@Stumpy91 There should be other cell extender devices- a quick search of "cell phone signal booster" shows lots of choices. Also, your carrier probably offers some as well.

@Stumpy91 Since you have the Microcell already, it's a reason to stay with a provider that uses AT&T's network (which Cricket does). T-Mobile has WiFi calling, but not every phone can handle the handoff between your WiFi and the cellular tower.

@narfcake I'll have to do some investigation on the Microcell. it had to be activated through at&t and you add phone numbers that will use the microcell through the stt website. i hope there is a way i can manage it.

@marklog They mention Batman and unicorns, but based on the relative quality of their recent random offerings I suspect it's more likely Duck Dynasty and Honey Boo Boo.

@Starblind I can't be the only one who'd be all over a Honey Boo Boo case, right?

@pitamuffin I might pay the $10 if I knew for sure I was getting Honey Boo Boo or one of those Swamp People. No dice if it's a Kardashian case though.

@shawn Why don't we sell hot tubs too? We could use one for the dev office. Wait, water and electronics... nvm :(

@NigelF Do you have a spending limit on the company card? You can get an inflatable hot tub for under $400! Do it! Wireless keyboard and mouse and you should be fine.

@NigelF i think we could fit a kiddie pool over here between @katylava and me

@medz I don't know what you may have heard about us, but until you buy more stuff I don't get a corp card.

@NigelF Fill it full of popcorn. Just make sure @jonT is wearing a body net.

@Mehrocco_Mole So you're suggesting @JonT is the Robin Williams sort? The kind that has to manually create a gap between his head and back hair? When the light is just right, his silouhette is furry? It often appears that he's smuggling a squirrel under his golf shirt? That kind?

@bakeyoural What's wrong with that? Some of us didn't choose to be so hairy.

@xarous Quite so. Though wax and fricken' lasers are options for the wooly that walk among us.

@bakeyoural When global warming causes an ice age, those laser lovers will be sorry!

@bakeyoural Not when you're charged by the square inch. Oh well I can always get some money for being a stand in for Bigfoot.

@xarous Charging by the square inch? Perhaps it's time for Meh to venture into fricken' lasers. Run a hair removal deal per square yard.

@medz You furry sons'a'bitches will most certainly have the last laugh.... if you don't keel over from heat stroke beforehand. Or choke on a hair ball.

@Mehrocco_Mole @bakeyoural @xarous You're right on the money, I am a hairy fellow but no wax or lasers for me. I fully embrace it and my SO likes it, so I will just forever remain fuzzy.

@JonT @bakeyoural @xarous @medz. So I guess I got the troll thing down pat. Swooped in and left a zinger then stood back and watched. Sweet. (JonT, still an awesome 'stash)

@harrison I thought y'all're in Carrollton. Don't you already have one of these in the parking lot?

@hippiechik That was a box of bullshit.

@hippiechik @Thumperchick The School Crate was bullshit, but the "coupon fiasco" was the death knell. It's worth $10 off shit.woot and expires in a week. No, it's worth $20 off anthing on the site and expires in a month, no, wait, it's worth $10 off shit.woot and already expired. I eventually was able to pressure CS into letting me use it for $10 off a shit.woot random Anvil offer. Turned out the "random" part was the location of the print... randomly located somewhere other than the center of the shirts. Crappy School Crate + Coupon CS Disaster + $30 in defective shits = No mas woot para mi.

@Brandizzle Why would you put up with that? When consumers allow merchants to screw them over it sacrifices the rights of all consumers. You should have charged it back.

@eyewerks They were two separate line items with individual costs, so it didn't even cross my mind to have it charged back. I don't check the site anymore, so maybe voting with my wallet will mean something.

@Brandizzle I hear you. I don't give them my business anymore either, after they handled a couple of situations very poorly.

@zachdecker This is the crux of the problem with Woot. You can get that from walmart for $7 more or from qualitytoolsforless for $4.99 more at any time. There is no need to rush and buy this from Woot today unless it's something you were looking for anyway and they just happened to have the exact product you needed. The impulse buying is over.

@Del Sad to say, woot has been 'meherer' since meh started. Except when it comes to catshirts. Woot definitely wins there. =^.^=