leaving Sprint Broadband 6/24 - have a U720 to dispose of!

paulie888 · EVDO User Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 37

Well, it is official. I have decided to leave Sprint Broadband due to the recently imposed cap, and also to avoid any further ridiculous conversations with its incredibly ignorant and misinformed CS reps. Each encounter with them just makes me want to smack them upside of the heads many, many times!

If I hadn't done my research properly in this forum and found out about my rights, I might have been led into believing that the reps were correct - they kept saying that I could not get out of my contract without and ETF, and many were ignorant of the 5gb cap!! Sprint, if you do not buck up and at least train your CS frontline people a bit more, you're going to end up losing many irate customers who simply won't put up with such ineptitude and stupidity! I certainly would not be surprised with Sprint losing a couple of hundred thousand more customers by the end of the second quarter, given their scandalously retarded handling of this whole 5gb cap issue...

Anyway, I'm left with a trusty Novatel U720 modem that works well, which I do not have any use for anymore. Any ideas on how to dispose of it and sell it for something?? Any and all help would be appreciated.

Paulie

Guest · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:10 am Post subject: Good Question!

Good Question! Am in the same boat.

Peterfield · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 132

I bought my 720 on Ebay. I read elsewhere on this board that a few board members have been experimenting with cracking open the 720 and installing the card inside their laptops as a "built-in" EVDO device so perhaps one of our board members would be interested. Out of curiosity, where are you headed?

leicabug · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:08 am Post subject:

I too am leaving Sprint at the end of this billing cycle. Ebay or craigslist would be my choice for U727 and Cradlepoint CTR350.

waynefoutz · EVDO Junkie Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 309

Nighthawke70 · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 114

Target practice...

Ready? Pull! *BOOM!*

paulie888 · EVDO User Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 37

I am doing a radical rethink of my usage model. It won't be the same, but I think it'll force me to be more "productive" with my net usage and time.

I have been looking at all the Sprint smartphones recently, and have more or less decided on the Blackberry Curve, which I'll combine with the Sprint Simply Everything plan so that I'll have constant access to my emails, some RSS feeds, etc.

For the "heavy lifting," I'll have to either rely on my wifi or home connection (which makes sense as EVDO Rev. A pretty much tops out at 1.5 mbps for me.) This is actually a decent compromise for me, because as Wayne points out, there are sneaky ways of downloading streaming movies and other streaming content off the net when you are on a solid and fast connection, and this way you optimize your network usage by taking advantage of fast wifi and home connections when really fast throughput can be really exploited!

Quick question about the Ebay issue. I actually have both a U720 and U727 to dispose of, as I've been using Sprint broadband for a while now. I haven't used my ebay account for many transactions in the past (last thing I bought was 2 years back!), and have NEVER sold anything with my ebay account. With the low rating/feedback score on there, would it be difficult to sell my U720 and U727??

Also, what would be a fair price for the U720 and U727?

Paulie

paulie888 · EVDO User Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 37

Leicabug,

Is it difficult to sell things on Craigslist especially when you're dealing with out-of-staters, or do you just advertise locally?

Paulie

ebiz · Last edited by ebiz on Mon Jun 23, 2008 4:52 pm; edited 2 times in total

AmazinglySmooth · EVDO User Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 86