I carefully document how a Corporate Cingular store (Chimney Rock &
Westheimer in Houston, TX) is selling a "Made in China" no-name Car
Charger available elsewhere for $3.99 at the rip-off price of $29.99;
and the apologists break their arm patting Cingular on the back for
providing this service. Meanwhile the Genuine Sony car charger lists at
$19.99

Links documenting the pricing were in the Original Post.

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1. It was a Corporate Store. AND EVEN THERE A PROPER COVERAGE
   MAP IS UNAVAILBLE, ONLY THE UNINTELLIGIBLE SMALL MAP OF THE U.S.
   from which details of any city are invisible. The Houston area is
solid orange, omitting all the dead zones, some of which are in fact
being fixed>

http://onlinestorez.cingular.com/cell-phone-service/get-started/pop-cover
age.jsp?q_zip=77002

But those holes and myriad remaining never existed
according to all the maps from Cingular.

2. A 750 % + markup is a ripoff under any definition.
3. Chilidish Personal Attacks on the poster don't change Cingular's
   Customer unfriendly behavior. Another Company store
   didnt have in stock....Store didnt check whether
   any other store might have in stock, didnt check if they were
   getting any in soon, didnt offer to special order. Slightly west,
   an AT&T Wireless Company store that had been converted
   to Cingular badged store is now closed down.
4. I love my TiVo  (HR10-250); and DirecTv is so much better than Cable,
   SBC/Yahoo dsl is rock solid reliable and 1/3 the cost of RoadRunner.
   So falsehoods about my only being negative are just baloney.
   Here's positive about my new cell phone.
5. As I said, I now have a new Sony/Ericsson W600i, it's
    everything the Rokr should have been was isn't.
   It's an awesome phone, and I saved further, as:
     A) It fits nicely in my "pouch" case that had held a v600.
     B) I don't need a car charger as I can use the supplied Travel
         charger in the AC plug in the dashboard of my car, and charge
         the phone on its USB (supplied) cable at home.
     C) Wont be charging it much anyway as its rated at
              14 day standby time.
     D) Freeware Macintosh iSync plugin works great. And it syncs
           via Bluetooth.
     E) Address book so much better than Motorolas, only one entry
         when person has multiple numbers (home, cell, work, etc).
     F) Built in FM radio tuner works great.
     G) 1.3 Megapixel camera with Flash is great, supplied PC
          software works better than extra cost Motorola Phone Tools,
          loading MP3 or unloading pics is drag and drop.
           USB data cable is supplied, not extra cost as with Motorola.
     H) I think 256 Meg memory is more than the 5 Megs
            my v600 has.
     I) Ericsson phones allow bulk move of all contacts back and
       forth from SIM to Phone, not painful manual one at a time
        necessary on v600.
     J) I get a $4/month discount on my Cingular service by allowing
        combined billing with my SBC POTS and dsl.
     K) W600i comes with 2 faceplates (orange & Dark Gray),
        and many others are on eBay.
     L) Simple transfer of address books between two W600i with
          Infrared!

http://macncell.com/index_html/archive/2005/11/30/homemade-isync-plugin-f
or-sony-ericsson-w600i--w550i

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