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A Life By Design
"Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!" ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I am really sorry this happened to you. I, among many others have had problems from not understanding completely the fine print with Telcel. Carlos Slim is the richest man in the world and this is one of the reasons why. I hope you sent your text and have received a confirmation this time.
Yes, I sent the text. At first, I got a message that said I had no money on my account, after putting on another 400 pesos, and I was just GUTTED, then the message came through that I’m good to go on the plan.
Keep watching your usage graph on the site until you have a good idea of how fast it is being used up. I know I am a light user in comparison but I seldom went over 2.5 GB in a month.
Again, not an issue for me. 😀 Having been on mobile bandwidth for so many years, I am acutely aware of usage 🙂
Sorry this happened to you, but I read much the same story on the George & Tioga blog a few years back. Greed is everywhere and scams like this on the unknowing is common. Watch your back, I hear the “police” down there sometimes play these games too. If I remember correctly, George always demanded to go straight to the police station when he was stopped & they attempted to shake him down. Good luck from here on out.
This is such a different kind of scam, not a greedy police officer, but a whole corporation. Not unlike dealing with CDN telecom, actually!
(I know about going to the police station to pay the fine!)
Strange…..I have never sent a text to get mine going, mainly because until 6 weeks ago I had no idea how to text! Maybe someone did it for me.
Sorry this happened but this might not be the only wake up call to Mexican bureaucracy.
I’m starting to think it was a language barrier thing: my Spanish was TOO good. 🙁
Hi Rae:
You might try signing up for the MiTelcel website to track your usage, add future funds, and activate plans. I found it a whole lot easier to understand (and verify), than trying to deal with Oxxo and text messages.
The Guaymas Telcel office told me that my Amigo plan could not be managed online via MiTelcel, but they were completely wrong! After setting mine up, I helped a few others at Tres Amigos set thier accounts and the only one than had a brief complication was Contessa’s (doesn’t that just figure?!!!). But soon enough, her’s was working soon!
Lynne, I did sign up on Monday, but had no reason to worry about my usage… 🙁
Lynne, it took a few hours but thanks to you I am good to go 🙂
I would suggest that you did not get “scammed”. You simply didn’t understand how the system worked, and nobody explained it to you.
We’ve never had a problem with TelCel during our five winters in Mexico.
To me, when something is this systematic with other people having the same issue and the company acknowledging that they should have told me, it’s a scam for lack of a better word. It’s something really obvious that I should have been told! 🙁
Anyway, I’m smarter now and look forward to no more troubles! 😀
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