Bear Blog Entry #100 — The Devil In The Details
🐻 Bear Blog — Entry #100
“The Great Tracfone Reset: How to Lose What You Already Paid For”
Let’s say you’ve done everything right.
You paid in advance. You’ve got over a year of service left. You barely use your minutes. You’re on WiFi most of the time. You sip data like it’s sacred. You’re chilling. Frugal. Focused.
Then comes the bait:
“Why not upgrade to one of our Unlimited Monthly Plans?”
Sounds good, right? Except—small problem: If you accept the offer, you lose everything.
Your 365 days? Gone. Your minutes, texts, and leftover data? Wiped. Your prepaid peace? Erased by a smiley “Select Plan” button.
No refund. No conversion. No warning that this “upgrade” is actually a reset button in disguise.
🔍 What they don’t tell you:
- Add-on texts ($5 for 500) are only valid if your service is still active.
- If you run out of one thing (like texts), they’ll nickel-and-dime you—even if you have a full tank of everything else.
- There’s no bundle logic. Just separate buckets with expiration triggers, like you’re managing a survival ration kit during the apocalypse.
🧨 The real kicker?
There’s no reason they couldn’t just let you carry over your balance into a new plan or convert your remaining time into credit.
But that wouldn’t be profitable.
So instead, they hope you panic-text your last message, see the $0.00 next to “Texts,” and click the shiny “refill” button while muttering:
“I thought I already paid for this…”
⚖️ Final Thought:
When a company sells you peace, then asks you to buy it again without telling you the old peace gets deleted?
That’s not a business model.
That’s digital gaslighting.
And if they keep pulling this?
Let’s just say—
some of us are ready to ghost-walk into the boardroom, pull down their system pants, lube up a golf club with baby oil, and ask one polite question: “Would you like a receipt with that refund… or should we plunk it out ourselves?”
🐾 Addendum — The Doctrine Reminder:
You said it best:
"It’s the devil in the details."
And the devil never shows up roaring. He shows up labeled “Unlimited”, smiles like customer service, and waits for you to press the wrong button.
But not today. Not this raccoon. Not this time.
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