Better to keep quiet
@Professor2010 (20156)
India
April 14, 2012 3:48am CST
I am fade with some persons, who never respond to my phone calls though the phone keeps ringing, some have changed the SIM cards.
These people consist of material supplier for my home renovation work, who have taken money in advance but discontinued supply, people who bought gem stones, horoscopes, jewelry from my business concern; paid part of the cost with the assurance of paying the rest ‘soon’, and some friends who took monitory help from me on some issue or other.
[b]Now I am sure they are not going to payback my money, they are cheats; so it is better to keep quiet than keep calling or emailing them, (some have email ids; but they too never replied). Such things were of no benefit, it only raised my BP.
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Here many buy pre-activated SIM cards with enhanced free talk time; without submitting any documents, though it is illegal. I have never bought any, I have only one contact number and my cell phone is single SIM type.
[b]So what you would have done, keep quite like me or keep calling?
Do people at your end can get such SIM without submitting any document?
Do you have multiple contact numbers?[/b]
Also please lease share your views and comment on this.
Thanks in advance.
Professor ‘Bhuwan’. . 14/04/2012
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These people consist of material supplier for my home renovation work, who have taken money in advance but discontinued supply, people who bought gem stones, horoscopes, jewelry from my business concern; paid part of the cost with the assurance of paying the rest ‘soon’, and some friends who took monitory help from me on some issue or other.
[b]Now I am sure they are not going to payback my money, they are cheats; so it is better to keep quiet than keep calling or emailing them, (some have email ids; but they too never replied). Such things were of no benefit, it only raised my BP.
[/b]
Here many buy pre-activated SIM cards with enhanced free talk time; without submitting any documents, though it is illegal. I have never bought any, I have only one contact number and my cell phone is single SIM type.
[b]So what you would have done, keep quite like me or keep calling?
Do people at your end can get such SIM without submitting any document?
Do you have multiple contact numbers?[/b]
Also please lease share your views and comment on this.
Thanks in advance.
Professor ‘Bhuwan’. . 14/04/2012
[i][/i]2 people like this
8 responses
@janechenrose (135)
• China
15 Apr 12
There are a lot of cheaters. They want money, if you have this incidents, can you call the police or will you tell the interviewer ,who will deal with the public things.
In my country China ,people can buy any SIM card without documents ,if he dose not want this SIM ,he can change it, but some SIM need personal documents even identification card ,like mine ,and if I am not charge the telephone fee, the documents will be supplied and I can not make a new SIM. Listen to your experience ,I need to be careful to prevent cheaters.
So this way you have big loss ,be quiet, will you for help of assurance company to give you some compensation ,or can you report to government to have some money. Maybe the newspaper will help you, so now what about you renovation work of home, can you ask some friends to help you, wish you good luck, we all hate cheaters.
@celticeagle (189792)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Apr 12
It is too bad that you don't have a friend in the legal profession that could send him a formal letter. Not threatening but asking in legal jargon what happened and that you are assured it will be taken care of and questions answered. I would tell anyone who will listen what a bad company they are and why. I think that word of mouth can hurt or help a company. I don't even know what a pre-activated SIM card is. Hope you get the information you need.
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
14 Apr 12
Professor,
I would have done the same, but I tell you this. They may never pay back. In this country I live in(U.S.)anyone who does a job on a house don't get paid until the job is DONE, or they get money to get the materials needed to do the job required. In spite of this, they will come back, and then, they will have to eat major crow in order to do business again because they will need a favor again. and you gots to do the right thing in order to handle business.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
14 Apr 12
I'm sorry you have been ripped off by people. I would e-mail them though as in court here it's can be considered evidence on your behalf as e-mails have time and date stamps on them from your ISP.
We do not need contact information to get a pre-paid cell phone here. Though some may or may not want you to register with them. I have a pre-paid but I am registered with the service.
I have two contact numbers for me a cell and a landline. Though I use my landline more as it's cheaper to use than a pre-paid cell is. And with the amount of time I spend on my landline I'd blow thru a contract cell phone minutes very quickly.
@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
14 Apr 12
hello dada,
Too bad, people cheats in many ways.
My friend also lost a big sum due to fraud contractor.
Don't you know where these people lived so you can sue them?
Hugs to you and maa 
@WakeUpKitty (8691)
• Netherlands
14 Apr 12
I would have never sent anything without people paying me first. This is common nearly everywhere on the internet. You can only take the risk if you have a high insurance. So I think you learned a hard lesson this way.
Since you can´t change anything to what happened anymore the only thing you can do is accept it and safe yourself more costs. Keep calling them, investing time in emailing, calling etc (is money too) is the only thing you can do now.
Who know some of these abusers will pay you back sooner or later.
If you have a pre-paid sim card you can get it without a document/registration in my country. Although I assume you are somewhere registered when you buy it online plus you have to pay for it before they send it to you.
If it's not a pre-paid sim you have to sign a contract (signing and paying first) and you will be registered by a National organisation for credits as well. So if you borrowed to much money or don't pay off they will trace you.
@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
14 Apr 12
Here in the Philippines , professor, anybody can buy a new prepaid SIM and they are cheap. You don't even have to give documents to identify yourself.
It's only with the postpaid that documents are needed to back up you application.
I for one, would really like to just keep a long time SIM. But there's no choice but to change SIM, when my former cellphone was stolen.
But when i changed SIM, i informed all my contacts that the SIM i am using is my new one and the other one is already gone.
@shrinithi18 (548)
• India
14 Apr 12
Oops! Professor,that really makes us get tensed.It's better you keep a mum,it'll atleast your control your Blood Pressure.It's health first professor! Everything else-"next"
Well i would have kept quiet, when i've known they're never going to respond to me,and that's going to atleast kind of illtreat me.I don't want it from them,after all,i'm in no way cheap than them! Let that money and etc go-think you've helped some "POOR" people for your -Satisfaction
Well in my country (it's INDIA),we're supposed to give the "Ration cards-Fair Price Shop cards" or something else,for the address proof.We don't usually get a lot of SIM cards (I've got twice- once just to change the company from Aircel to Airtel-That's good and i don't ever try to change it)and i don't have multiple contact numbers as well,but ways of contacting depends, some of my friends contact me through the Facebook and e-mails,whereas some close,of mine,have my contact number with them.It all depends :)
But i don't give my number to everyone--i never want all of them to Disturb me!
(*LOL*)!
Good day professor!
