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Viper wrote:
> I ordered an data cable for my Lg 8000 phone off of e bay and the cable is
> for the LG 7000 and it works just fine. Nothing was destroyed on my phone
> and I still can use all the features ( V Cast, Text messaging, Mobile web,
> ect. ) with out no problem. I thing the tech you talked is just giving you a
> run around and dose not know what he/she is talking about. I think that it
> is funny that the regular end user knows more that the techs at Verizon.
Its likely the "techi" (whatever that is) was the usual sales droid.
Unfortunately it seems to be universal (that includes best buy and other
places that even make the claim that they know something) that they only
know a few buzzwords that they learned during that mornings "training".
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> "Gary" <gareth@capecod.net> wrote in message
> news:wozGe.10883$oZ.4598@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
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>>At the VZW store this afternoon asking questions about the 8000. I said
>>that it was common knowledge that the VX-7000 cable will work just fine on
>>the 8000. The techi said that if I did that the phone would be basically
>>destroyed because of "frequency shifts" . He continued to say that vcast
>>and the ability to make a broadband data connection would be forever
>>destroyed.
>>why would this otherwise fine young man say this? Are they ordered to say
>>these absurd things? Inquiring minds want to know.
>>
>>gary
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