Now I just hate to go into our local Verizon Wireless store anymore, you can’t seem to get in the door without someone trying to latch on to you and sell you everything in the store. And, when you politely tell them that you are just looking around, they seem almost insulted.
The reason for the visit was to find a new wall charger for one of the boys. It seems during one of the moves from the house, to the hotel and then finally the travel trailer, a wall charger got misplaced. Now this phone is not really that old, maybe 9 mos. max, but Verizon doesn’t stock any parts for it anymore. Since it’s not in their lineup anymore, they just stop stocking accessories for it. Of course, every 2 or 3 minutes, some sale person would interrupt my browsing, and wouldn’t leave me alone. Finding nothing I wanted, needed, or reasonably priced, I decided to try my luck online.
Amazon to the rescue…A quick search for Samsung Intensity, and for a little over two bucks each, I found not only the wall charger, but car charger and a siliconized hard phone case, all for about 6 bucks (the case was 88 cents). A single generic charger at Verizon is 19 bucks.
I also needed a rapid car charger for my phone. I found the OEM car charger for my HTC Thunderbolt, which was 5 bucks cheaper than the garbage chargers that Verizon will sell you. I’ve never had any luck with a car charger purchase from Verizon. First of all, they are not rapid chargers, and they do not last very long. I always opt for the OEM chargers whenever possible.
So for about the price of a single generic charger, I received a wall charger, 2 car chargers, and a phone case. You can’t beat that, ad using the standard shipping, I would have spent the same amount of money for gas just to get to the Verizon Store,