HOWTO Get out of your Verizon contract for free

Cory Doctorow 10:33 pm Mon Feb 5, 2007

Want to get out of your Verizon contract for free? Consumerist has a step-by-step, "aggressive" script that looks iron-clad:

Use this aggressive step-by-step script for leaving your Verizon contract early, without paying $175, in under 30 minutes.

No longer will Verizon get to think they can carve their logo in your head for life.

The play turns on Verizon's recent raise in basic text-messaging rates from $.10 to $.15. We've laid out these steps before, but we enjoy Roosh's confrontational style. He created the script based on previous Consumerist posts and comments. He talked to three different reps in thirty minutes. Within an hour after hanging up, his phone was off.

Read how it's done, inside…

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