u/notavailableforthat

Im not a Verizon customer, but they have some steep deals on phone cases I’m interested in at the moment BUT

I go to pay $20 in full (no financing) for a case and Verizon won’t let me check out til I submit credit info including my social security number etc

i have neither the trust or patience with many companies to follow through with what feels like a ridiculous process for a $20 paid in full chunk of plastic phone case.

why are they asking for this?

I bought my iPhone 17e last saturday ($600 if I’m not mistaken, paid in full and activated in store). I think the return policy is 7 days and that’s tomorrow!!

I already find this phone to be worse and slower than my 2020 iPhone SE, which was at full storage and losing function when I moved on to this one...

The SE was somehow much faster loading web pages on cellular data...Earlier today I noticed this phone wouldn’t even budge when I tried to look up a restaurant menu on LTE. I live in Iowa City, a state college town, not the sticks.

The clerk at Cricket told me this phone was (quote) ”designed to work on the premium plans”, and that it would not move in the way I liked until I paid for Cricket’s more premium plans (upwards of $50/mo)…

I’ve been paying for the $35/mo plan for YEARS with minimal trouble until now… I barely even use 2 gigs of data, and I make shit money as a preschool director…

I think this is odd and really putting me off Cricket and maybe even iPhone altogether…

Is the clerk correct? Should I switch phones or carriers?

Thanks for any guidance you can offer! 🙏

(side rant: I also find it absurd that the sim is locked to cricket for 6 months, when I paid in full up front for the device)

I bought my iPhone 17e last saturday ($600 if I’m not mistaken, paid in full and activated in store). I think the return policy is 7 days and that’s tomorrow!!

I already find this phone to be worse and slower than my 2020 iPhone SE, which was at full storage and losing function when I moved on to this one...

The SE was somehow much faster loading web pages on cellular data...Earlier today I noticed this phone wouldn’t even budge when I tried to look up a restaurant menu on LTE. I live in Iowa City, a state college town, not the sticks.

The clerk at Cricket told me this phone was (quote) ”designed to work on the premium plans”, and that it would not move in the way I liked until I paid for Cricket’s more premium plans (upwards of $50/mo)…

I’ve been paying for the $35/mo plan for YEARS with minimal trouble until now… I barely even use 2 gigs of data, and I make shit money as a preschool director…

I think this is odd and really putting me off Cricket and maybe even iPhone altogether…

Is the clerk correct? Should I switch phones or carriers?

Thanks for any guidance you can offer! 🙏

(side rant: I also find it absurd that the sim is locked to cricket for 6 months, when I paid in full up front for the device)

34 cis hetero monogamous woman here. I’ve struggled with this idea my entire romantic life: physically desirable women are extremely common. Even if you disagree with that perspective, it’s hard to deny that both men and women alike are overwhelmed with feminine beauty in marketing and social media. no matter how much I search for hot Brazilian men or hoochie daddies on instagram, my algorithm only feeds me women I’ll never be.

This has really turned my heart cold when it comes to dating. I simply do not want to have anything to do with dating when i feel I will never be enough for someone physically. I simply do not believe love or attachment can truly flourish under these conditions, and that I am perpetually replaceable. This makes me angry and then I want to remove myself from sexuality entirely. I’m aware some of these nearly disabling feelings of inadequacy require more therapy than reddit (there is also some logical truth behind these feelings, in our consumptive throwaway world)

despite aging into a jaded person, I do know what it’s like to love and want another person for who they are…in spite of their flaws and in spite of ”better” options. I also have been lucky enough to be loved like that in return for a short while…

And I STILL do not believe men can be better than their “male gaze”, so I’m wondering if the men here can relate: confirm or deny feelings of inadequacy, attachment, “you’re only as faithful as your options” thinking, being inundated with other hot cool girls literally constantly etc. What is all this like from the male perspective?

Thanks!