February 2nd, 2010 
mio I know this won’t come as a surprise to everyone reading this blog, but Bell sucks. I’ve had the misfortune of being a telephone customer of theirs, as well as a customer of Bell Sympatico. For anyone who pays attention to this sort of thing, my opinion is: don’t use Bell unless under threat of death.
Why? In short:
- they have stolen money out of my bank account (by doing something they *specifically* claimed was impossible) then wouldn’t give it back until I involved my bank
- they’ve cut off my phone service for not paying *someone else’s* bill, and even after it was proven that was the case they still wouldn’t reconnect it, and still wouldn’t even after we proved that it was, in fact, their fault that it was possible at all
- they’ve sold me a service that didn’t exist (which lead to me having to pay the cable company an extra hookup charge since they had to come to my house twice)
- and most recently they failed to fix a connection problem. For two weeks. They claim to have made 6 appointments for techs to check out the problem, but we only saw 2. Each of those techs “fixed” the problem, only to have service go back down within 24 hours. (They also both complained bitterly about working for Bell!)
So, what’s a gal to do during this internet outage? (Did I mention that the internet wasn’t working at work either because of a computer virus? *yanks out hair*) Well, I certainly didn’t plan any part of my wedding! (Whose idea was it to keep our notes about it in a Google document? Oh wait, that was me…)
I crocheted, naturally! I also loom-knit.
You all remember Mom’s sorority’s charity thing with the kids hats and scarves right?
Check it!
The plan is to fill a bin with these. The current count is 23 complete sets (I took this picture before finishing a few of them… all of those hats in front of the pile have matching scarves now, plus there is another set not pictured… and a blue hat I still need to make a matching scarf for…)
I also made quite a few dishcloths. And a crochet-on-the-double hat using Bernat Soft Boucle (that still needs sewing up), and blew through a few more balls of red on the Ladybug blanket. I’m woefully behind on motifs, but expect to see a rush of those soon, as I’m in another motif swap. ^_^
A possible conclusion from all of this might be that having no internet access can be really good for my crafting! Another conclusion might be that having no internet had the potential to drive me so crazy that I needed that many projects to distract myself with just to get through it…
*eye twitch*
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Oy vey – that absolutely sucks! I’m currently having a fight with my bank that sounds very similar, so I feel your pain. At least it resulted in some awesome hats and scarves. They look great!
Sounds rather like dealing with BT over here. Does Canada have some sort of telecoms regulator like Ofcom in the UK that you can complain to about Bell? The experience I’ve had is usually an intervention from the regulator produces a pretty swift resolution when a big corporation is behaving like this as it kicks the problem across from the regular customer service drones to someone more senior.
That’s an AMAZING amount of knitting/crocheting you’ve got done mio!! Holy cow, you totally put me to shame! ;) Go you!
Also, OMG Bell! How do they manage to stay in business?? I’m so glad you are now with someone else!! :)
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