T-Mobile Apologizes For Danger Outage... But Not To Me

from the thank-you-and-screw-you dept

A few weeks back we noted that all users of the Danger Hiptop/T-Mobile Sidekick had no data service for about a week, for some unknown reason. While service was eventually restored, the outage has still not been adequately explained (though, it probably made Paris Hilton happy). As an "apology," T-Mobile sent all Sidekick users a note promising a $20 credit and a special folder of "free" games and ringtones in a folder labeled "Thank You" on the catalog part of the device. Seeing as I'm a Sidekick user, I checked out the catalog. I use the Sidekick only for data, so all of the free ringtones were useless to me (I wouldn't use them anyway, even if I did use it as a phone). However, there were two games offered, and considering the lameness of the existing games on the device, I figured why not at least get something out of this free offering. For the past few days I've been trying to download the free games, and every time I'm told they're not available. I finally called up T-Mobile and after waiting on hold for a while and having to speak to two different representatives, I was told that these games don't work on my particular Sidekick model and, yes, T-Mobile should have filtered the emails and the catalog better and, yes, the error message should have told me that these games weren't compatible and, yes, they probably should have offered at least some games that would work on my Sidekick, but otherwise, too bad. Their only suggestion was to call up Danger Inc., and see if maybe they would do something for me. I can certainly survive without two free games, but it does seem particularly rude to offer a special free "thank you," but make it so it wasn't actually available to many of your users. It's sort of a "thank you, but screw you" response. Amusingly, the catalogue clearly labels this as "customer appreciation week." I don't feel particularly appreciated right now.