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About a year and a half ago, I decided to make the move to using a smartphone. I decided that it was about time, what, with my degree finishing and me moving into the working world. The ability to read emails on the go is a truly useful one.
And it all rendered my other phones pretty useless. I had two. One in case the other broke down. Because Until the arrival of the big, swish, new thing, they had been struggling along, sometimes flickering on and off, and doing odd things at odd times.
For some reason, I still have both of them, although I’m not entirely sure why.
I think that, perhaps, it’s laziness part laziness. But it’s also because you hear about so many schemes out there that claim to help you or offer you good deals, but actually they’re just scams or fraudsters.
Not to the extent of insurance fraud reports, like I remember seeing last month. But they are still there, still present threats nonetheless.
It even came with a little bag, which I could pop them in and post them off for recycling. Often selling your mobile phone to people like the Mobile Phone Exchange always seems like a great idea. Recycling it is even better.
But even these websites, charming as they look, get scolded by customers claiming that they’re scams. Claiming that they quote big prices — until you send something in, and the individual price they quote to you is a lot less than you expected.
You just never know when a company like this is genuine, or is actually a sort of mobile phone exchange scam.
And so, reluctance on my part turned to forgetfullness, and the phones are now sitting, lost somewhere in the house.