Welcome to Sprint Really Sucks

Welcome to the new and improved Sprint Really Sucks Website. Things have been moved around a bit, however it should make it easier for you to find and read all about how badly Sprint Nextel SUCKS.
 
Read my story of how Sprint Screwed me out of nearly $50,000.00

You can find the other stories (Sprint customers and former employees here).
 
You can find the daily updates on the Sprint Really Sucks Blog.
 
Sprint runs Nextel into the ground (along with itself) then hopes some sucker will buy it from them, anyone that even thinks about buying Nextel, or Sprint for that matter needs to be committed. You would be better off buying a real pig in a poke than buying anything Sprint is selling. I guess if a company is looking for a billion dollar write-off a few years from now then by all means throw away your money on Sprint or Nextel.
 
 
 
 
Federal Court Allows Sprint Retail Employees Represented by Nichols Kaster & Anderson, PLLP to Continue With Claims to Collect Their Unpaid Commissions - Read more

Dan Hesse is Finally Reading His Own Email
 
 
 

Sprint So Broke They Are Selling Their Cell Phone Towers
(What's next employee layoffs, or selling your phone inventory in pawn shops?)
 
"I wouldn't doubt it for a minute, that Sprint announced the sale of all those towers so they could book it as revenue before the August 6 earnings call. Probably cooked the books too, so they show some sort of profit so the board of directors could justify all those millions they get in salary, while the company is losing money."
 
7/18/2008 - I keep seeing something strange in my website logs. I keep seeing Verizon Wireless and Sprint IP's back to back several times (one beside the other) today. I wonder if Sprint and Verizon are about to do something together? I've seen them back too many times today to be just coincidental.

 

 
 
One could almost assume that Verizon may be interested in Sprint from perhaps a buyout perspective
 
I personally believe that Sprint "leaked" the SK Telecom buyout rumor hoping to boost their falling stock price. Don't they call that pumping up a stock? I think that just might be illegal, right? I call it desperation on Sprint's part.
 
 
 
And if you are into Embarq News - Congress goes after NebuAd and Embarq (fvrit.com)
 
Seems at least one Sprint employee has too much time on his hands and posts stupid/lame comments on this site. He's probably a customer service rep. or a network operations geek. He is probably angry because he knows his job is one of the next to get laid-off, eliminated or terminated.
 
 
The legal stuff: The "Sprint Really Sucks" website is in no way, form, or fashion affiliated with Sprint or Sprint Nextel. You can find them here. This website is a non-commercial, personal 1st amendment freedom of speech protest and gripe website (as upheld by the 6th and 9th circuit US court) of Allen Harkleroad. This website contains the opinions, feelings and thoughts of Allen Harkleroad. By visiting this website you are bound to this websites terms of service agreement. Sprint, Sprint.biz and Sprint Nextel are registered trademarks or copyright of Sprint.    Sprint Nextel NYSE Stock ticker: S
 

The purpose of this website is to bring light to the fact that Sprint often gouges customers, especially corporate and business customers. How do I know? Because I recently discovered that Sprint had been gouging me to the tune of $1445.25 dollars a month for three (3) years and four (4) months. Gouging me that is until I found out about it and pulled the plug on my Sprint T1 circuits. Who am I? I am Allen Harkleroad of Statesboro Georgia and I work for a small technology company in Statesboro.

We were quite unaware that Sprint was overcharging our company for quite a while. You see, we are very trusting people and wouldn't even consider that a company such as Sprint would do such an underhanded thing like take advantage of our small company and stick it to us as much as they did. Well you know what they say: If you do wrong it will one day catch up with you and you guessed it, Karma caught up with Sprint and you know what they say about Karma...

I even recorded a telephone conversation between myself and Ronald W. Schober (Sprint Sales) lying to me about how much the local loop charges were. He states that Sprint pays my local phone company right at $1998.00 dollars a month for the loop charge. I contacted my phone company and was advised that the local loop charge is a tariff item and is only around $500.00 or so dollars a month. That leaves a difference of $1900.00 or so per month (I was paying $2411.00 a month). As you will see below I have evidence to the effect that Ron Schober and Lyssa Schlosser (Sprint sales) deliberately mislead me about the true and correct costs.

Listen to the Sprint Sales Representative lying to me about the loop charges. Windows Audio (WMA format) 1.8mb

I even used Sprints own tariff calculator and found the true price I should be paying to be less than $900.00 per month. Yes, I used Sprints *own* online wholesale pricing tool to discover that my company was being taken advantage of by Sprint. Pretty bad when a sales representative lies to you and then you use their own companies pricing tool to find the truth.
 
 
Sprint Nextel Boost Xohm Sucks a Lot
 
 The best thing you can do as a consumer is share this website with your friends, family, co-workers and business associates. Everyone who uses Sprint or is thinking of using Sprint should read the contents of this website so they can be an informed consumer. REMEMBER: an educated consumer is a dangerous consumer, so spread the word via email, blogs, comments on news items, help get the word out! By doing nothing you are in fact helping companies such as Sprint to get away with screwing it's customers. It only takes a couple of seconds to email or share this site with everyone you know. YOU CAN HELP!
 
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  • Sprint Nextel Customer Satisfaction Called Me Today
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DISCLAIMER: The "Sprint Really Sucks" website is in no way, form, or fashion affiliated with Sprint or Sprint Nextel. You can find them here. This website is a non-commercial, personal 1st amendment freedom of speech protest and gripe website (as upheld by the 6th and 9th circuit US court) of Allen Harkleroad. This website contains the opinions, feelings and thoughts of Allen Harkleroad. By visiting this website you are bound to this websites terms of service agreement. Sprint, Sprint.biz and Sprint Nextel are registered trademarks or copyright of Sprint.    Sprint Nextel NYSE Stock ticker: S