Verizon Wireless reserves the right to refuse access to customers if they bear arms

[eye95]

Of the big three, Sprint clearly has the best pricing. However, Verizon has the best coverage. AT&T is best at the BS.

I prefer coverage, so I would rather stay with Verizon. Of course, if they don't change their anti-gun policy, that won't happen. So I'll suffer somewhat less coverage, save a bunch of bucks, and go with Sprint.

 

[since9]

So, I could go to a different company, but get what I'd consider to be an inferior product. Doesn't seem to be a good option here.:banghead:

You're right - it doesn't seem fair.

My solution is a $10 TracPhone, a large, cheap minutes card and a double-minutes card which drops the per-minute charges to very close to $0.10 per minute.

That and the fact that I very rarely use it. Thus, my monthly charges range between $1 and $3. It's amazing how shocked others are when I exaggerate and tell them my monthly cell phone bill is only $5, especially when they're paying more than 10x that amount.

Verizon, AT&T, and the rest have brain-washed us into thinking we MUST have cell phones with even the most basic plans beginning at $30 a month or more.

Not true.

 

[OldCurlyWolf]

You're right - it doesn't seem fair.

My solution is a $10 TracPhone, a large, cheap minutes card and a double-minutes card which drops the per-minute charges to very close to $0.10 per minute.

That and the fact that I very rarely use it. Thus, my monthly charges range between $1 and $3. It's amazing how shocked others are when I exaggerate and tell them my monthly cell phone bill is only $5, especially when they're paying more than 10x that amount.

I used a tracphone for a few years. It came in pretty cheap for me. Mostly under $10 per month. Often less than $5.

 

[golddigger14s]

I've carried in Verizon a few times in Lacey, WA without a problem.

 

[DWCook]

My cellphone with Sprint is my main communication for my job and others. Don't have a home phone line or such. I do have internet obviously and can get VOIP service, but that particular type of phone service is crap. So for me having a monthly phone plan with unlimited minuites and data, with military discount and other discounts I receive I only pay $38 a month for every thing unlimited.

I have grown fond of having alot of extra's for practically nothing, but then again not alot of people can get the same discounts that I receive. To each to their own!

 

[rpyne]

That statement BEGS for this question:

Are they really anti, i.e., do they actively try to make firearm ownership extremely difficult/illegal, or are they just stupid and think they are protecting their employees from danger and themselves from lawsuits?

There is a large difference between the two stances.

With that question asked, how many of you drink Pepsi products or eat Lay's or Doritos chips? Pepsico, their parent company, is rabidly anti-gun, to the point that at one time the board of directors of HCI (now the Brady Campaign) were mostly board members and executives of Pepsico.

Every penny you spend casts a vote for or against freedom. Take time to know the companies you patronize.

 

[xd shooter]

Can you cite cases of that? Links to articles?

I love to write letters to corporations but need cites to make my case.

 

[eye95]

A couple of things:

1. I drink mostly Coke products.

2. I don't care if someone is anti-gun. I do care if they try to use their corporate power to stop me from carrying. Unless Pepsi tries to make carry while drinking Pepsi illegal or they demand that stores selling Pepsi not allow carry or some such other nonsense, I won't hold it against the corporation.

3. rpyne is right. Whatever Pepsi is doing, there is no chance I will act against them without cites from reliable sources, spelling out specific and unacceptable actions that the corporation has taken against carry.

 

[We-the-People]

Here's the August 2010 NRA "Anti's list". Didn't see Pepsi or PepsiCo on there anywhere though I might have missed it (don't think so).

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=15

Be carefull, if you've said you're going to boycott anyone / any company.....there are a lot on there. Hope you're ready to give up your lifestyle.

Then again the NRA says the list is those that "have officially endorsed anti-gun positions".....ummmm pot meet kettle?

 

[Namchief]

Here's the August 2010 NRA "Anti's list". Didn't see Pepsi or PepsiCo on there anywhere though I might have missed it (don't think so).

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=15

Be carefull, if you've said you're going to boycott anyone / any company.....there are a lot on there. Hope you're ready to give up your lifestyle.

Then again the NRA says the list is those that "have officially endorsed anti-gun positions".....ummmm pot meet kettle?

I would love to see that list. As for Verizon vs Tmobile vs Att vs Sprint........ If you can go into your local store with OC or CC then let it go what info has been provided on the no gun stores..... a store near 8 mile in detroit might be a lil more against a CC compared to a store in North Muskegon MI. It is also easier for a clerk to blame corporate than deal with the issue. I will not go into a store that denies me my rights but just because one poster here tells me of an email that happened with Corporate Verizon with them stating that guns are not allowed, when I have been into 3 local Verizon OC and 1 in MN CC and no sign no fuss they just wanted me to upgrade to a newer phone so I for one will stay with the Verizon. And when I get my permit I will CC in the 3 Verizon stores in WI

 

[rpyne]

Here's the August 2010 NRA "Anti's list". Didn't see Pepsi or PepsiCo on there anywhere though I might have missed it (don't think so).

http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=15

Be carefull, if you've said you're going to boycott anyone / any company.....there are a lot on there. Hope you're ready to give up your lifestyle.

Then again the NRA says the list is those that "have officially endorsed anti-gun positions".....ummmm pot meet kettle?

Back when the Brady bunch were being honest about their intentions and called themselves Handgun Control, Inc., if you read the list of members of the board of directors of HCI and the board of directors of PepsiCo, with few exceptions, they were one and the same. Since the board of PepsiCo has not had a wholesale flushing, I can't imagine that their position has changed much. My suspicion is that they simply decided to fly under the radar because they know where their customer base is.

The Brady Campaign no longer openly publishes the list of their board nor their donors, so it is very difficult to see how much or little has changed on their end.

 

[Dreamer]

In October 2010, the FCC fined Verizon $25 MILLION for overcharging its customers with fraudulent charges:

http://consumerist.com/2010/10/veri...-with-528-million-for-false-data-charges.html


And now, the State of MD has announced it will be investigating Verizon for fraudulent billing practices:

http://consumerist.com/2011/07/maryland-county-investigating-complaints-of-verizon-overbilling.html


If a corrupt, mafia-esque den of criminals like the MD State government is offended by the behavior of a company you know it's GOTTA be pretty bad...

Verizon has become an organized criminal enterprise, and should be prosecuted under RICO statutes. The fact that they don't allow OC is just icing on an already rotten and putrid cake of corruption, lies, and deceit...

Based on their business practices alone, any law-abiding citizen would be FOOLISH to enter Verizon property unarmed--the place is lousy with thieves, brigands, and con men...

Take your business somewhere else.