#GoodMorrows: It's crackly thursday, and yesterday's battle with #Vodacom continues. You call the customer service that calls itself Upgrade/Cancellation department. You tell them the whole story, they ask a squekload of security question which I can understand, supposedly to prevent fraud, but they are fraudsters themselves. Then when all these questions are done, they ask you why you want to cancel, and no matter which answer you give, the only answer they give is, let me help you with a different contract. We don't want a contract, we want to cancel because we can't afford your contracts and we don't like your auto-expiration of data after 30 days even if no data was used. That we didn't tell them but it's one of the reasons we want to route to CapitecConnect instead, because airtime and data can be set not to expire. They give an expiry date option, and you can click on never, and it doesn't expire. Anyway, they said they'll put us through to the cancellation department, and then they dropped the call. I thought they were the upgrade/cancellation department, so what other cancellation department now again, and then again a load of security questions for nothing. People, if you make use of #Vodacom or #MTN services in this country, be aware that cancellation is no longer an option. They make as if it is, but the contract you sign will bind you for life. You will never get out of it until the day you die, and after that, your children, **if you have any** which I don't, will still be bound to said contract. If you can avoid signing any contract with a mobile service provider or even an ISP in #SouthAfrica, avoid it like the plague it is. You cannot cancel, they'll just try to offer you cheaper solutions, but in this case, should my mom die at some point, as she's the main holder of this contract, then suddenly I'm in legal trouble because I can't pay said contract simply because I have not the account information. Crackly thursday, MurderousMarch, and cheating organizations is what the world has come to. That, is what capitalism gave you in the long run. The rich live off the spoils of the middle-class and poor, and they don't give a fuck because they have monopoly over you, either through some or other contract on your mobile service, or your internet service, or if you use other squekery, know that you're bound for life. That is all! Now I'll go away. Wexsi and my Jumbo quails give me much more joy than this lying, stealing, murdering, cheating world can. At least I'm only responsible for their food and water, and some care. But the end result is that we all get what we need. I get some lovin' from my pets, they get regular foodstuffs and petting from me. Mutual trust. No murdering, cheating, or lying. Dogs are the most honest things in the world, and with them it's only yes or no. There's no maybe, or perhaps. I have 3 cats, but their purpose is to kill snakes and rats on the farm...and I wouldn't know if a cat can be dishonest as I don't get much to do with them. Anyway, try to have fun on an electric sparking Thursday, in the middle of murderousMarch. See you whenever. I have no idea whenever that might be. I don't currently have work to do so I don't see the reason to remain at the pc...just going back to bed. Maybe I can fall under a rock and never hear anything about the world again. Forget about radio/tv/internet/whatever other squek there is...throw mobile phones into the pit of hell where they belong.

If you thought of routing/switching your phone from the big networks in South Africa to the smaller ones like #CapitecConnect, don't even try. The contract to my Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 was already payed off in full in June last year, so #Vodacom put a random 6 month extention on the contract. We weren't in a place where good cellphone reception was possible in December so we phoned in January to cancel the contract. This lady said she could give us a contract that we could pay 309 rand a month and could cancel anytime we want if we weren't satisfied. We said no, but the end of January, 309 rand went off the bill, ok that's luckily not 1000 rand like when we still had to pay for the Z Flip4. Still, my mum is retired now, so we contacted #Vodacom again, and the 309 rand contract got reversed, and supposedly cancelled. When we went to #Capitec on 7 March to route my number to CapitecConnect, they said the routing should take between 24 and 48 hours. No problem, I assumed the current vodacom sim would switch off by Sunday or at the latest Monday. Here comes Wednesday, 96 hours later. I phoned #Vodacom customer services, first have to jump through a million hoops to get to a bloody consultant. Then get told by the consultant that no, I should phone Capitec, because they're the ones running the routing when the routing is from vodacom to their network, so I phone Capitec, and the guy took about 15 minutes to come back to me, with the following answer: "Mr van Schalkwyk, Your sim-card doesn't comply to our standards for routing, we cannot route sim-cards that are on contract." So yeah, I'm stuck with #Vodacom for the rest of the forseeable future. Only thing, the contract doesn't show on my mom's vodacom list for phone numbers any more, so somewhere along the line, we're going to run into legal trouble because no-one owns this phone number according to vodacom's app, yet it's still on contract according to Capitec. HumanKind they say, I say HumanCruel. They lie, cheat, and steal from you whenever they like, they murder people just because they like committing war. Why the creator even allows this to continue is beyond me. If it was me, I'd have ended it all long ago, but luckily I'm not the creator, so thank the inverted dog that I'm not the creator. I'm on meds to supposedly calm me down/restore the chemical imballance in my brain, but being chased to and fro between networks just to hear that...ahem...you'll have to pay us for the rest of your life, but actually because you're not the contract holder, your mum is gonna pay us until she is no more, and when she dies, you are stuck without a phone. Whatever...Life is life.

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