{"id":145,"date":"2011-06-06T23:04:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:12:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T12:12:23","slug":"fido-never-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/2011\/06\/fido-never-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Fido, never again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I called Fido to change my address and my phone number because I moved to another province.\u00a0I remember seing ads on TV where Fido proudly said their customer representatives are now easy to reach. This is total bullshit, I called 611 and chose the option to change my address but I seemed to be in a dead end: I was told to wait but after a few minutes of holding I wasn&#8217;t even sure if my call was still in the system, I didn&#8217;t even had background music to let me know the line is still alive. I called back repeatedly but couldn&#8217;t find a way to talk to a human being. I abandonned out of frustration.<\/p>\n<p>After looking on the internet for a way to talk to get to a human, I called back and tried again the option to change my address and I finally ended up in a queue.<\/p>\n<p>A nice guy picked up my call and apologized for the trouble. He changed my address but as he was looking for a new number in my area, the line cut off for some reason. Grrr. Fortunately, he called me back as I was dialing back 611. I noticed that the caller id was not 611 but rather a regular number, but didn&#8217;t think twice about it. The representative was helpful, but unfortunately Fido don&#8217;t have any local numbers in my area so I&#8217;ll have to switch carrier when my prepaid credits expire.<\/p>\n<p>After hanging up, I try to log into my account on their website and I get Java timeout errors (their website is so unstable it could have a blog article on its own). After trying back 15 minutes later, I finally get it working but WTF, my balance now shows $0.00 and my account status is deactivated!!! I had about $25 before I called them!!!\u00a0And to add insult to injury, I was charged $4.60 for long distance when the customer representative called me back because I am out of my current local calling area!!! What kind of shitty system is this??? And lucky as I am, customer service is now closed for the day.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to scream out of anger!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I called Fido to change my address and my phone number because I moved to another province.\u00a0I remember seing ads on TV where Fido proudly said their customer representatives are now easy to reach. This is total bullshit, I called 611 and chose the option to change my address but I seemed to be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boloxe.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}