May 2007 Weddings
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Kristin
I thought I remembered you saying you bought your Blackberry from Walmart when it broke. Am I recalling that correctly?
How was your experience? I feel like there has to be a catch somehow that I can walk in, renew my Verizon contract and get the phone I want (that Verizon would charge me $70 for with the 2-year agreement) for $10-15!
Greg was looking at batteries this weekend while we were there and I found one I really like... I'm nervous, though, because I don't want Verizon to have some kind of "Well you didn't buy it from a reputable store.." B.S. if something goes wrong.
Re: Kristin
I bought my new cell phone (not a Blackberry) from Walmart through T-Mobile...but it didn't break. It's been great and I only spent $18 on it compared to the $150 that T-Mobile wanted.
No need to be nervous...they are authorized to sell the phones through those companies and Walmart has a 14 or 30 day money back guarantee (same as the phone company would.)
Hmm, I wonder if Walmart will nix the $75 restocking fee that Verizon would slap us with?! We are having so many issues (as previous Alltel customers) - when we asked, they said it had to be our phones, NOT Verizon. (Just seemed kind of fishy... BOTH of our phones purchased at the same time both becoming VERY temperamental, and losing reception frequently within 6 months of Verizon acquiring Alltel, when we never had similar problems prior to the acquirement.
) When we said "So what happens if we spend $300, get new phones, and our service STILL sucks?"
We were told we had a 30-day money back guarantee... but there would be a $75 restocking fee. PER PHONE.
Check with Walmart but I doubt they'd have a restocking fee. I found with Tmobile that they try to charge you up the wazoo...but Walmart doesn't charge those same things. Tmobile wanted to charge a $30 upgrade phone charge even though it was time for a free phone and I was extending my contract. Walmart didn't charge that $30 fee and Tmobile never charged it from their end.
When they made the switch here, everyone I know who had alltel ended up having to get new phones because their phones wouldn't work correctly on the Verizon network. I have a feeling that's probably what it is - something about the different chips? I have no clue how these phones work.
Watch out if you get a blackberry or any other smart phone on Verizon...there's no way to get the phone w/o paying $30/month for the data package. When we switched to Verizon last year we just wanted touch screen phones and I really liked one that needed the package...Mike had a hard time finding something that didn't.
BTW we both ended up hating our touch screen phones and I wound up buying a blackberry off craigslist...still has the data package but at least I can use the damn thing now.
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