Thus spake Mike Perry (mikeperry@xxxxxxxxxx): > However, when I purchased a SIM for their pay-by-day/pay-as-you-go > plan, that manager first asks me for an ID. I looked at him > strangely and said "Why do I need an ID? I'm paying in cash" and he > said "Ok, just write your name and birthdate down and I'll create your > account." Little did I know that this SIM card could not get any sort > of data plan added to it. > > So maybe it has something to do with attitude and the expectation of > the salesperson/manager in addition to your own expectations? I also > didn't have my phone on me and was very confident technically about > the fact that I should just be able to buy a SIM and put it in my > phone later without hassle, perhaps that helped? > > But these sorts of social subtleties are well beyond me, though. Maybe > they were able to sense that I've been so desensitized by all these > demands from me over the years that I really didn't care any more if > they would take my money or not? :) One other aspect of how these interactions happened was that I asked to buy a GoPhone/FlexPay SIM, got the sales person to go through the process of creating the account, and THEN produced the cash instead of credit card + ID. This may have had something to do with increasing their willingness to finsih the sale: they would have had to have cancelled the whole deal just because I didn't have my ID on me and didn't want to do a credit check for no reason... -- Mike Perry Mad Computer Scientist fscked.org evil labs
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