> Hmm, yes... Just recently T-Mobile seem to have sent me quite a few text 
> messages about various "hey, if you spent a certain amount of money in a 
> certain way, we'll give you some free stuff that you can only use under 
> certain conditions" type of offers.

Luckily for me I guess they realise that sending those sorts of messages to 
people on business tarifs is pointless :-)

> Some poor saps will buy just one, and get stung for the cost of 2 even 
> though they only bought one. And everybody else will buy 2, and pay the 
> normal price for them anyway. And the shop gets to crow about how their 
> "brilliant offers" save you money. <insert cynical remarks about the 
> manipulation of the population here>

When I was living in the UK I got a message from Vodafone telling me that I 
should sign up "for free" to their "passport" service, which meant while 
abroad I got cheaper calls or something.  Anyway I thought why not if it's 
free, so I phoned up to activiate the service (as it instructed you to do 
so) and was told I needed to upgrade my account first (obviously this new 
tarif cost twice my current tarif).  After a few back-and-to arguments about 
how this wasn't actually free for me I hung up :-)

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