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Comment on That Damn Bunny by Maegan

Maegan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:42:14 +0000

Yesterday I took peaches out of her cage, and I thought boomer was about to eat her, but he just came up 2 peaches and gave her a kiss. Peaches normally flips out when something wet touches her, but she didn’t mind boomers kiss. Maybe boomer doesn’t hate rodents, or maybe he wanted 2 know what hamster tasted like.

Comment on Verizon Daily Scoop Scam by Dave Buffenbarger

Dave Buffenbarger — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:30:20 +0000

It may work on your phone. Don’t even have a GetItNow or Browse and Download on my phone. So, does not work on my Convoy 2. I use APPS to access DScoop but there is no place to delete some of my apps like DScoop and BUPAssist. For some others, DELETE does exist as part of the right soft button menu. BUPAssist can be deactivated with a programming code from the ABOUT screen. But nothing on DScalp, er, DScoop.

Comment on Verizon Daily Scoop Scam by Dave Buffenbarger

Dave Buffenbarger — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:20:04 +0000

This is such a pathetic diatribe. In my working days I would have been the one of those programming the phones. Having DScoop come up and dump on the customers is no accident. Otherwise, it would have been fixed over night. VZW probably wanted to test case some customers and chose the LG and also Convoy 2. It is easy to reprogram and download a fix that would make it possible for the customer to DELETE (not just deactivate) DScoop. This is a 24 to 48 hour fix and should have been done months ago. Competent programming would have made sure that DScoop could be deleted in the first place. As for the money charges – why should I the customer have to even ask for the charges to be taken off? I never asked for the charges to be put on. That has happened to me way too often. If I had not acted as though I was going to sue them a few times, they would have another $1000 of mine due to problems they created. VZW has shown a propensity for shady practices or else they would not get so many complaints they don’t (perhaps not competent) to address and they would not have had so many ‘settlements’ with the government. BTW – Competent programming of a 15 year old could fix this problem.

Comment on Verizon Daily Scoop Scam by Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:39:44 +0000

Completely not true. That’s been the point of this whole thing. You absolutely can NOT remove this app. Verizon claims this is because it is part of the OS. If it were simple enough to remove the app nobody would care abou this issue or bother to jump through hoops.

Comment on Verizon Daily Scoop Scam by mike91163

mike91163 — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:38:01 +0000

Tom:

Judging by your post above and the 2 others here, I smell one awfully stinky Verizon MOLE…how so, you ask?

1–The audio messages-which, BTW, blare from the phone’s speaker, EVEN IF you have ALL possible volume controls OFF-do not, repeat, do NOT come from the VZ Navigator app. They originate from the Daily Scoop app.

2–Verizon “oversight”??? Hardly-Verizon preinstalled the app-any discussion of an “oops” on their part ends right there.

3–You seem to find it necessary to toss every other wireless carrier under the bus…why? You launch a lengthy diatribe bordering on legalese that in plain English that defends VZW by saying “Everyone’s doing it.” Horse manure! Why not simply say “Caveat emptor”?

4–Please point out where, specifically, in VZW’s Customer Agreement, it says anything remotely resembling “We have the right to shove in your face and ears whatever advertising we want to, when we want to…and you will have no options for stopping it, unless you’re savvy enough to research it, and we will bury the removal instructions in an obscure location on one of our websites.”

5–”highly ignorant”? Wow-now you’re reduced to insulting blindsided customers? And YES-some of us DID show VZW the bill, and triple-dog-dared them to find ANY web surfing or related data usage…sure, they took the charge off, but that isn’t the point; it’s like going to the gas station and being charged a $5 fee because the attendant felt you were driving your car too hard and being wasteful-even though their ads talk about the “horsepower gains and great performance”.

6–Racketeering? Yes, it is very close to it…I think getting out of the Mafia would be easier than this-and, family or not, you are not FORCED to join the mob-VZW is forcing their customers to jump through hoops to get rid of this crap.

In terms of purely wireless cellular VOICE service, yes, I am happy with VZW…and, being a customer going back to the early Bell Atlantic Mobile days (!), the nonsense they’re pulling now is pushing me, and many other customers, right out the door.

Comment on Verizon Daily Scoop Scam by P Barile

P Barile — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:18:06 +0000

After much internet research, here’s MY solution:
main menu | media center | browse and download…. that will show a list of apps installed on your phone. you can remove it from there… YES!!!!

Comment on Verizon Daily Scoop Scam by P Barile

P Barile — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:36:08 +0000

I smell a class action lawsuit. Twice I needed my phone for an emergency in the last 4 months. I could not make a direct call without “dismissing” Verizon’s Daily Scoop AND their ‘Back-Up”! Lives are at stake here and I have been talking to my lawyer. He smells money in this particular matter. Look out Verizon….

Comment on SUNY Plattsburgh Trivia by Scott

Scott — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:09:32 +0000

I was there!! Attended 1976-1978. 16 oz Pabst for 50 cents at big brother’s YEAH! Wednesday beer bash. Lost count of how many times I threw up in the 4th floor lounge of Banks Hall!

Comment on Smile by Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:47:18 +0000

thats a preety awesome picture how did u guys get the birds in that fomation i love it hahah lolz

Comment on Verizon Daily Scoop Scam by Steven

Steven — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:35 +0000

I stumbled on this thread while trying to figure out how to get rid of the obnoxious app on the Samsung Convoy II. I also am ready to cancel my service with Verizon if my attempts to turn off the messages are not enough.