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Monday, March 10, 2014

Framily or Frenemy? How to successfully use a pyramid scheme

So Sprint has this new thing they are doing called  the Framily plan. I know, stupid right; what is this fourth grade phone planning now? Anyways, check out their commercial. 

So it's really only 25 bucks a month? Well yeah, after you sign up at least seven people, and after the second billing plan; that is of course, after you sign up seven six different people for their company!

This is basically a pyramid scheme being rubbed in the faces of people who are addicted to phone technology by promising a better tomorrow, (lower monthly payment), as long as they get more people under their belt. 

Also, they only give you ONE gigabit of data, which is nothing now-a-days when downloading apps is easy and only takes about a minute. But do not fret smart phone users because you can also "customize" your plan so you could get unlimited or THREE gigs of data. Of course customize really means that you will not pay the glorified $25 a month but up to $45 in order to keep up with social media.

Also, I do not like how they do not talk about their service; from what I saw on Youtube, which is not credible just people given voices, is that they do not come anywhere near the other top providers when it comes to reliability and customer service.

Lastly, I saw one of the ads which stated at the end that best way to use this plan was to buy a smart phone from them. Obviously, this is not unlike any other provider or carrier, but it just ticks me off that they have the gall to say their plan, which only gives ONE gig of data should be used on a smart phone which has the capacity to use about hundred times that in a single day. (OK maybe not a day) But do not fret yet again, they offer payment plans for these phones that take two years to pay off.

So I ask you; is this a pyramid scheme that frenemies would use, or your supposed "Framily"?

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