Virgin Mobile Review

A cautionary word to people who have a $20.00 every 90 day top off plan, Virgin has put in a deceptive NEW MENU ITEM that will lock you into a 200 minute ($20.00) every 30 days when you go to top off! When I called from my phone right after I hit that wrong key, I used up 3 minutes, thus according to Virgin does not allow them to transfer that $20.00 to my former plan because it no longer is 200 minutes! But according to the rep I spoke with if I waited until just before the 30 days ended they would credit me the remaining minutes back into my 90 day plan. I called after 30 days and was told that they don't offer any such credit. But after much haggling, they would give me $7.50 of my remaining $16.00! Then they hung up on me. I called back and was told nothing in my account info showed any credit offer and they were not going to give me any of my remaining $16.00 back! Told the very rude service "manager" that I would like to transfer my balance from what is a 10 CENT-PER-MINUTE PLAN to a higher 20 CENT-PER-MINUTE PLAN and if I couldn't get her to do that Virgin would lose a customer. SHE DID NOT CARE! We're sorry sir, but we don't want you to have a service plan that meets your limited calling needs even though we'll be making twice as much per minute! As Spock would say... Very Illogical.
I took my two active Virgin phones out to the garage and smashed them to bits! (surprisingly very refreshing!) Then I went down to a T-Mobile store, bought a phone and a $100.00 (1000 minute) top off card that does not need to be refreshed for 1 YEAR! The very helpful rep set up the phone on the spot, filled me in on the plan and gave me a half price discount on a protective case. So I went from Virgin's 20 cents to T-Mobile's 10 cents per minute, don't have to top off every three months and most importantly I don't have to deal with less than honest Virgin reps who don't care about long time customers.