{"id":869,"date":"2012-11-14T16:23:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/tutor_profiles\/paul_smith\/paul_smiths_blog\/?p=869"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:23:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T16:23:34","slug":"nightmare-with-three-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/11\/nightmare-with-three-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare With Three Mobile UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I ordered my HTC Desire, it took three mobile three weeks to send me the phone.<br \/>\nWithin a year it was broken. It wouldn&#8217;t charge or switch on. DEAD!<br \/>\nIt took three mobile THREE MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to repair it.<br \/>\nWithin 2 weeks it was broken with the same problem.<br \/>\nI sent it to be repaired again. The repair they said would take five days actually took seventeen, during which time they never received\/lost\/despatched\/found and put to the back of the repair queue.<br \/>\nWithin another month it was broken again with the same symptoms. Off to the repair shop and back.<br \/>\nNow again, broken with the same symptoms for the fourth time this year and three say the phone only has a one year warranty on a two year contract, something I was never told.<br \/>\nI am sick of them now. If they refuse to repair it for free there will be trouble &#8211; court case, phone calls and a BLOG CAMPAIGN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I ordered my HTC Desire, it took three mobile three weeks to send me the phone. Within a year it was broken. It wouldn&#8217;t charge or switch on. DEAD! It took three mobile THREE MONTHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to repair it. Within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/11\/nightmare-with-three-mobile\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-e1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":645,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/07\/dissatisfied-with-three-mobile\/","url_meta":{"origin":869,"position":0},"title":"Dissatisfied With Three Mobile?","author":"taxicle","date":"July 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Me too. They took three weeks to send me a phone at the start of my contract. They took THREE MONTHS to repair my phone, then once my phone failed with the same problem, they managed to lose it. 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