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Nicholas: Hey there! Thank you for visiting Verizon Wireless Sales Chat! My name is Nicholas! May I have your name, please?

Joe: Joe

Nicholas: How are you today Joe ?

Joe: doing ok.

Nicholas: Glad to hear it.

Nicholas: How can I help you today?

Joe: ah

Joe: I have an oldish samsung groove

Joe: does what I need for now.

Nicholas: Awesome!

Joe: but I might be wanting to get notified with email or facebook updates in the near future which means getting a smartphone.

Joe: I don't care what kind of smartphone, I'm more concerned about being a cheapskate.

Joe: I see these "NEW Smartphone plans" the $60 and $70 plans

Joe: per month

Joe: seems a bit steep.

Nicholas: For prepaid yes those are the prepaid options per month. They included unlimited talk and text with 2 GB of data for $60 and 4GB for $70.

Joe: I see Page Plus offers some less than stellar phones, Kyocera something or other, BUT they have a plan that does what I need, and has data for $29 or $39 a month

Joe: I don't need unlimited talk

Joe: or text

Joe: I rarely use the $15 a month I have to buy now.

Joe: with the prepaid cards

Joe: I estimate no more than $30 a month minutes usage in the near future.

Joe: only thing that I might want is the smartphone email/facebook notifications.

Joe: Page Plus works on the Verizon network too.

Nicholas: Our prepaid smartphone plan prices are based off or normal plan prices but at half the cost.

Joe: normal plan prices are $120 a month?

Joe: anyway, I guess I'm looking for some hidden benefit to the $60/70 plan over migrating to Page Plus

Nicholas: Roughly yes.

Joe: which is, as I've found, half again what verizon is offering.

Joe: verizon needs to work on a minimalist smartphone minutes/texts/data bundle.

Joe: $30 a month for 500 minutes,500 txts, 500MB

Joe: or something

Joe: even 300 min/300txts/300MB

Joe: it's less than Page Plus, but still with verizon.

Joe: I'd avoid the hassle of switching vendor/carrier and vzw would keep a customer.

Joe: and get more $ out of me

Nicholas: Well I do not set up the plans those are the current ones offered by verizon they may have different ones in the future but I do not know if they will.

Joe: yeah

Joe: make a note pass it up the line in the suggestion box I guess.

Joe: ought to give salespeople some flexibility though.

Nicholas: More flexibility would be fantastic and I will make a note about your plan ideas, maybe they will name it after you too. :)

Joe: sure

Joe: turingish test, what's your favorite snack cake?

Joe: I always ask that in these popup chat things.

Joe: I suspect more often than not companies are running some sort of AI.

Nicholas: Favorite snack cake, now this is something I do not know if I have a favorite for.

Joe: that's what a computer would say.

Nicholas: I use to really like SnoBalls before hostess up and died.

Joe: we've got hostess back in stores here.

Joe: I saw snoballs on the shelves yesterday.

Nicholas: You lucky man you.

Joe: yeah

Joe: anyway. thanks for the sounding board.

Joe: I'd like to stick with vzw, but it's looking like I might have to switch.

Nicholas: If you had asked for a favorite candy bar that would be an easy answer.

Joe: Well, as I said. Thank you for the response. I'll leave you alone now and get back to efnet. Bye.

Nicholas: Have a great day.