You definitely win the telco prize! How awful The level of frustration caused by telcos and banks is surely reaching life-threatening proportions. Just before we left for Europe in May, an NAB ATM ate my Mastercard – because it was actually being serviced while I was trying to make my transaction but the bank had somehow neglected to close the machine. Two months of inconvenience overseas, another two months of trying to rectify it back here have led to five different cards (five new numbers to memorise) and finally being told that it is now impossible to link my accounts correctly, as they were, to the card! I do sympathise.
Rosemary Kneipp
September 8th, 2014 at 5:51 pm
Ah, I had forgotten that for the first 2 months after the iPhone problem I had a Visa card issue – not as bad as yours though but still very annoying as we were going to Germany as well. They send your new card here by post and it somehow disappeared between Paris & Blois. I went to the bank to cancel it and order another one but I had to go back THREE times before the order finally went through. In the meantime of course the other one turned up during some intensive tidying up but by then it had been cancelled. Where did you go during your holiday to Europe this time?
That’s quite a story! In our family Laszlo is the “cursed” one. He drops, losses, or smashes his cell phones almost all the time. This taught me the lesson of buying insurance, but in your case it didn’t work quite so smoothly.
Rosemary Kneipp
September 8th, 2014 at 5:43 pm
A hi-five for Lazlo!
Jacqueline
September 8th, 2014 at 12:45 pm
What a horror story but a typical bureaucratic French one! You need to buy an Otterbox case. You could throw the phone and it wouldn’t break. So many people in the US have them. Bonne chance!
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You definitely win the telco prize! How awful The level of frustration caused by telcos and banks is surely reaching life-threatening proportions. Just before we left for Europe in May, an NAB ATM ate my Mastercard – because it was actually being serviced while I was trying to make my transaction but the bank had somehow neglected to close the machine. Two months of inconvenience overseas, another two months of trying to rectify it back here have led to five different cards (five new numbers to memorise) and finally being told that it is now impossible to link my accounts correctly, as they were, to the card! I do sympathise.
Ah, I had forgotten that for the first 2 months after the iPhone problem I had a Visa card issue – not as bad as yours though but still very annoying as we were going to Germany as well. They send your new card here by post and it somehow disappeared between Paris & Blois. I went to the bank to cancel it and order another one but I had to go back THREE times before the order finally went through. In the meantime of course the other one turned up during some intensive tidying up but by then it had been cancelled. Where did you go during your holiday to Europe this time?
That’s quite a story! In our family Laszlo is the “cursed” one. He drops, losses, or smashes his cell phones almost all the time. This taught me the lesson of buying insurance, but in your case it didn’t work quite so smoothly.
A hi-five for Lazlo!
What a horror story but a typical bureaucratic French one! You need to buy an Otterbox case. You could throw the phone and it wouldn’t break. So many people in the US have them. Bonne chance!
Here’s the site for more info
http://www.otterbox.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-otterbox_us-Site?scid=ppc:1&mkwid=s3qjOsr8F_dc%7Cpcrid%7C46881220389%7Cpkw%7Cotterbox%7Cpmt%7Ce&gclid=CIupuPq30cACFQ5gMgodfjkAmQ
Thank you Jacqueline, I’ll look into it.
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