I got a cingular phone from radio shack I was told use it 30 days and if it woulnd't work for me to take it back, no questions asked the salesman told me he would take care of it. so I tried it out it didn't like it took it back the salesman said ok he then offered me a sprint phone I agreed to try sprint he even gave me the same phone number. This is where it gets interesting he told me when I get my first bill it'll have first month usage charge and activation fees he told me not to pay the activation fees he would take care of it well i got my first bill paid the usage but not the activation fees guess what they shut my phone off I had to pay the fees. then for the next three months my bills were double the said amount, iwas being charged for every minute no free nights no free mobile to mobile every month for three months sprint waived the excess and i only had to pay the said amount, after three months they said they couldn't do it any more because they did an investigation on my phone and the salesperson had put that I lived in omaha and my billing address was were i actually live were I live there are no towers for sprint . the guy lied to make a sale. sprint told me that since he pulled one over on me that I wouldn't have to pay any early termination fees.I thought that was pretty nice of them until last month I tried to buy a house and my credit score fell 80 points because I have a $1000 bill from sprint and a $600 from cingular in collections I called radio shack and asked them about it the district manager told me it was my responsibility to call cingular and cancel the phone i told him your guy said bring it back he would take care of it, the dm said well I can't call and shut off your power now can I and i asked what he was going to do about his salesman putting false info about me just to get me a phone,he said he was going to look into it and call me back im still waiting for a phone call so my question is is there legal action I can take or do I take this as a $1600 and ruined credit lesson? pardon my grammar and puncuation
