Now I'm sure this has been posted before, but after searching for like 20 minutes I could only find one to unlock a phone to go to a different carrier, not for root.
If no one knows of one, I would like to start one on We The People's website so people like us on Verizon can have the same opportunities as others do on other carriers that don't lock down this so dang hard.
Now of course, being the sh***y administration that Obama's is, last year they changed it from 25k signatures to 100k (and from 5k to 25k back in 2011) to be taken seriously. But I KNOW there is more than 100k Verizon users on here on XDA.
The only tough part would be spreading the word in the 30 days we have to achieve this to everyone who wants this. Maybe XDA can work with us and somehow create a pop-up to when you are on the site or app notifying them of this petition to sign? I know a lot of people would also shrug it off and think it's just spam, so maybe even a PM to everyone?
Now, to get Verizon to take this seriously as well, we would need to have a foolproof plan. We would need to put rules on this for them to even consider this. Such can include (but not limited to, add any you think should be added):
•soon as you root/unlock your device you have now voided your warranty (as it already is) and therefore would need to pay full price for a new phone IF you bricked your device or any other NON physical damages (Water, drops, cracks, etc)
•maybe even pay a small time fee of $50-$100 per phone for this root so they can actually earn some extra money (don't be cheap, you pay $200-$600 dollars per phone, and donate money here so it's the least you could do for freedom).
•That's all I've got for now, but I've been up since 8pm last night working, so my brain isn't fully functional right now so please add!
I'm sorry, but I don't think we will ever have the same abilities as other carriers. If we want to stick it to the man, we will have to do it how we have always done it. Behind their backs and find ways around the locks for what we want. Them giving us the ability outside of a Dev device, won't happen. They don't want us having any more power than that they will allow.
I like the thought, but I really don't see it happening bud.
Nice thought, Dennis but I doubt this would work. Many reasons, but probable the biggest is Verizon has heck of a lot more lawyers (working for them) than we do
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Nice thought, Dennis but I doubt this would work. Many reasons, but probable the biggest is Verizon has heck of a lot more lawyers (working for them) than we do
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lol i'm not sure the relevance of the lawyer comment? i'm not saying we need to force verizon to do this, just something to make them aware that out of over 100 million users on their network, a nice little portion would like this option. they can still make plenty of money out of it, whether it be that one time fee i suggested, or if something happens to your phone other than physical damage, you have to buy a phone at full price.
This thread has been cleaned of all talk of warranty fraud. That is not only illegal, but also against XDA rules. No further discussion on the matter will be tolerated.
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This thread has been cleaned of all talk of warranty fraud. That is not only illegal, but also against XDA rules. No further discussion on the matter will be tolerated.
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I must've missed what was said, can you PM me?
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I must've missed what was said, can you PM me?
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You replied to what was said, basically stating the same thing I said.
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Oh OK I remember now, thanks!
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Mods please delete this post, this didn't turn out at all how I wanted it to. I wasn't trying to get a new phone from anyone or anything like that, sorry I came off that way. I also wasn't trying to make any monetary gain. I just shot this thread up real quick before I went somewhere today and I obviously didn't think about how it would be perceived to everyone.
Are you kidding me, you come here and ask us to pitch in money to buy you a phone?
Please go back to the other side. We support our own developers and moderators who put in countless time and energey to develop, publish, and
answer. This is who we should support, and don't always properly do so.
And they don't come with their hands out telling us if we give them this, they will do that.
Go back to you little site and quit trolling here.
So you want us to buy you a phone so you can review and post about kernels/roms/boot animations on your Comcast At Home site?
I mean....we do this here for free... I'm not sure exactly what service you offer, but other than putting out an opinion that is probably incredibly biased by your personal taste....doesn't seem like anything anyone would be interested in...
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This looks like something xda frowns upon, and why would we buy you a new phone. I will gladly donate and help developers who bricked there phones to help the community. But this is like a homeless person begging for money..
Donating to get a review of stuff, uh no...
are there people out there stupid enough to fall for this?
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are there people out there stupid enough to fall for this?
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Not anyone here, almost everyone here, is someone intelligent, or maybe not..
Wait, I got a great idea, why don't y'all buy ME another Epic, then I will travel all around taking pictures of the donated Epic with my Epic, then I will post them to my new, slightly unknown website!
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wow. . .
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Come on, people, be nice. It never hurts to ask.
At the same time, if what you're asking is ridiculously laughable, then...well...never mind. Carry on, people, until the thread's deleted. This might prove fun for an otherwise boring work day.
Sure, I'll gladly reciprocate if you don't mind first contributing towards the needed hardware for my website soon to be called porsche911review.net
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TO BE CLEAR sky deaner is the village idiot at the evo boards..
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Will someone chip in so I can start a 60inchplasmareview.com website?
Seriously dude, nobody's going to buy you a phone so you can "review" it and put links to roms and stuff on your free Comcast website. If you were a developer, and wanted to help the community, maybe.
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stuff on your free Comcast website.
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This is what gets me....hell Domains are CHEAP, hosting is CHEAP. As many hits as you don't get a day, you could probably run a site for less than $50 a year.
Wow, I didn't mean to offend anyone, I just can't afford the phone to do the testing on, so I thought I would throw it out there. If someone I knew had the phone I would just borrow it from them every time a new kernel dropped for updating. Mods can remove this thread, offending people was the last thing I wanted.
$450? The hell?
Look on Craigslist, in my area Evo and Epic 4G's go for around $200-250
Edit: Not to mention that you could get one with a bad ESN for even less.
That reminds me, I wonder if my Angelfire website is still around.....
Hey guys, not entirely Vibrant related, but due to the overwhelming support you guys showed with bringing down Skriller, I thought you may all enjoy listening to this radio show I did tonight.
http://goo.gl/kDfSD
Synopsis:
Use legit markets
Support your developers/community
Pay notice to app permissions
Skriller $ucks
Pay for paid apps
So what happen to skiller?
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Guy should be hung from his nut sack.
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Guy should be hung from his nut sack.
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I'm not asking what should happen, im saying what happen to him. The op saying "bringing him down" so "we" succeed in bringing him down. But what happened?
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I think we succeeded in giving him a headache and alot of negative press. They say that ANY attention is better than none at all tho. I know the site was down for like a day or so but it was up and running not shortly after and is currently. Here ya go:http://lmgtfy.com/?q=akaskriller
Skrillers site it up... BUT, I believe we were able to get all the paid apps off the site (which I am sure was a big draw for some to his site) and I believe a lot of the developers ROMs have been removed. I imagine the stuff up there now is his kanging.
Still illegal to have it behind a $5 donate wall.. still not crediting our developers... but the community is a lot better off now than it was a month ago.
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Skrillers site it up... BUT, I believe we were able to get all the paid apps off the site (which I am sure was a big draw for some to his site) and I believe a lot of the developers ROMs have been removed. I imagine the stuff up there now is his kanging.
Still illegal to have it behind a $5 donate wall.. still not crediting our developers... but the community is a lot better off now than it was a month ago.
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Not trying to defend him but access to the site costs $5 not the roms or cracked apps. The apps are not on his site, their just links. So technically its not illegal.
What you guys did was helpful somewhat. You made people aware of his action but bought attention to him. Good or bad, doesn't matter.
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Not trying to defend him but access to the site costs $5 not the roms or cracked apps. The apps are not on his site, their just links. So technically its not illegal.
What you guys did was helpful somewhat. You made people aware of his action but bought attention to him. Good or bad, doesn't matter.
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You are incorrect. You can't put Android behind a $5 donate wall, which it is. He DID have paid apps on his site, because of us, he no longer does. Maybe the guy who made the app will actually get paid now. There is a thought.
as the Title says, is the community sitting idle and letting this things happen?
where do we stand?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANDROID-2...obile_Phones&hash=item3a6930388e#ht_922wt_932
I couldn't care less.
1) If the guy is too lazy/dumb to google search and find xda,ppcg,ac, etc... then that's his deal.
2) People also charge $30 for a 30 second iphone jailbreak, same ****. Nothing you can do about, who cares?
Agreed - a fool and his money soon part ways...
+1 if people are dumb enough to pay for it then more fool them
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"i said let's nuke them and let's nuke them now!"
Lets hope that they are authoring their own content and not just ripping off other people's work. If they are charging $30 a pop then at least we can hope that they are ripping off fools.
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Lets hope that they are authoring their own content and not just ripping off other people's work. If they are charging $30 a pop then at least we can hope that they are ripping off fools.
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They just give an easy tutorial with links to tools. They're not selling the tools, they're selling the info.
That's capitalism. Nothing you can do about it and imo it's not even immoral.
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Alright this might sound sketchy to some of you, but I think alot of people can vouch for me. A guy on my local craigslist is selling a clean esn galaxy nexus for 400$. Said it was mint, said theres nothing wrong with it, just wants an iPhone. If I had 400 I would buy it in a heartbeat, sadly I blow all my money on tablets and other phones lol. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone wanted to send me a money order or cash via the mail, unless this guy takes paypal, I would love to buy it for someone and then ship it out to them. 400$ is a bargain for this phone, I think, anyway.
http://albany.craigslist.org/mob/2790351654.html
Why don't you buy it and flip it for money?
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If you read the topic you would know I said I dont have 400$..
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Why don't you buy it and flip it for money?
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He doesn't have the money for it.
See how simple that was without the smart comment OP?
People skim all the time.
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that doesnt even have a phone number to contact him. why dont you gtfo here instead of posting scam?
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that doesnt even have a phone number to contact him. why dont you gtfo here instead of posting scam?
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Well lets see. I have 7 feedback, very active, over 1000 posts, and 305 thanks because im a themer. Before you come running your mouth thinking im posting scams, find out who the OP is. Second, it has no phone number because not everyone likes giving out personal information in public, and with that comes to spam. Your an idiot.
a lot of fake ads on CL most likely you will get a reply like "i just sold it but you can get it cheaper at some website" I don't hit ads that have no phone number.
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a lot of fake ads on CL most likely you will get a reply like "i just sold it but you can get it cheaper at some website"
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Its not a scam, and its not spam, the guys legit, was willing to meet me at the verizon store to do the deal, talked to him on phone. Im not stupid and would not post something on here if I didnt think it wasnt legit.
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Well lets see. I have 7 feedback, very active, over 1000 posts, and 305 thanks because im a themer. Before you come running your mouth thinking im posting scams, find out who the OP is. Second, it has no phone number because not everyone likes giving out personal information in public, and with that comes to spam. Your an idiot.
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+1. Muffstuff is good people. Gtfo troll
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TheMuffStuff is solid - just click on him - thousands of posts, I've IRC'd with him in the #bionic channel lots of times - lay off man! Muff is the man! I'm tempted to front him the $ to turn it around and split the profits - LOL.
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TheMuffStuff is solid - just click on him - thousands of posts, I've IRC'd with him in the #bionic channel lots of times - lay off man! Muff is the man! I'm tempted to front him the $ to turn it around and split the profits - LOL.
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Haha thanks.
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He doesn't have the money for it.
See how simple that was without the smart comment OP?
People skim all the time.
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Funny. I read the whole post. What I meant is find a way to get it and flip it for money thus giving him a profit. Plus this was for the op and not for you. But thanks for your "assistance".
People don't think half the time.
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Alright this might sound sketchy to some of you, but I think alot of people can vouch for me. A guy on my local craigslist is selling a clean esn galaxy nexus for 400$. Said it was mint, said theres nothing wrong with it, just wants an iPhone. If I had 400 I would buy it in a heartbeat, sadly I blow all my money on tablets and other phones lol. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone wanted to send me a money order or cash via the mail, unless this guy takes paypal, I would love to buy it for someone and then ship it out to them. 400$ is a bargain for this phone, I think, anyway.
http://albany.craigslist.org/mob/2790351654.html
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Im pretty sure there is no craigslist ads/ links allowed.
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that doesnt even have a phone number to contact him. why dont you gtfo here instead of posting scam?
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Muffstuff post a scam?! Muffstuff gtfo?
You gotta be kidding me. Muffstuff is a very active and reliable seller, as well as a ROM theme cook.
Please don't make me laugh at your stupid comments. Best you gtfo before you embarrass yourself some more.
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Posting has been deleted. Has it been sold.
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Hello all. I was member dolce davinci until I asked to get my account closed. the reason I wanted it closed was to get away from xda.
My deal with mycomouterisjunk left me with a broken one s. HTC charged me to get blackrain1983s amaze fixed ( thankfully he is covering half the cost ). both deals are solved but I am left with a damage phone and my bank account in overdraft.
And the bummer of all, usps denied my insurance claim on the one s.
My reason of making this thread is to ask for donations. please, what ever you have will be appreciated . the LCD for the one s is $160, I am not asking for the whole thing but any little monies will help.
I still don't have a phone, I am using black rains amaze untill I ship it in a couple days. some members offered to donate phones but since i closed my account that didn't happen.
I know u guys might want proof that I am DOLCEDAVINCI and I will post some later, we still have a power outage in the DMV and I am on a phone.
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Hello all. I was member dolce davinci until I asked to get my account closed. the reason I wanted it closed was to get away from xda.
My deal with mycomouterisjunk left me with a broken one s. HTC charged me to get blackrain1983s amaze fixed ( thankfully he is covering half the cost ). both deals are solved but I am left with a damage phone and my bank account in overdraft.
And the bummer of all, usps denied my insurance claim on the one s.
My reason of making this thread is to ask for donations. please, what ever you have will be appreciated . the LCD for the one s is $160, I am not asking for the whole thing but any little monies will help.
I still don't have a phone, I am using black rains amaze untill I ship it in a couple days. some members offered to donate phones but since i closed my account that didn't happen.
I know u guys might want proof that I am DOLCEDAVINCI and I will post some later, we still have a power outage in the DMV and I am on a phone.
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Wrong section either way bro.
Why did HTC deny your warranty on the Amaze? What did they say was actually wrong with it? Water damage?
Wondering what inspired you to post in this section.
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Wondering what inspired you to post in this section.
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Can't post in FS/FT unless you're a member for a year.
AnyMal said:
Can't post in FS/FT unless you're a member for a year.
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I don't think it even lets you see those forums.
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Hello all. I was member dolce davinci until I asked to get my account closed. the reason I wanted it closed was to get away from xda.
My deal with mycomouterisjunk left me with a broken one s. HTC charged me to get blackrain1983s amaze fixed ( thankfully he is covering half the cost ). both deals are solved but I am left with a damage phone and my bank account in overdraft.
And the bummer of all, usps denied my insurance claim on the one s.
My reason of making this thread is to ask for donations. please, what ever you have will be appreciated . the LCD for the one s is $160, I am not asking for the whole thing but any little monies will help.
I still don't have a phone, I am using black rains amaze untill I ship it in a couple days. some members offered to donate phones but since i closed my account that didn't happen.
I know u guys might want proof that I am DOLCEDAVINCI and I will post some later, we still have a power outage in the DMV and I am on a phone.
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Who gives an eff?
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Who gives an eff?
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There's that warm family feeling we're all used too.
dasistsparta said:
Who gives an eff?
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Did I miss an election where you were appointed to be a spokesperson for all forum members?
Well here's how I see it:
You sent the Amaze to the guy and he said it was bricked. HTC did NOT honor the warranty meaning there was something wrong with it like water damage or dropped or something. Then the One S arrives to the other dude with a cracked screen. Both deals looked kinda shady. And it should not cost that much to fix an LCD/Digitizer/screen assembly at a 3rd party store, maybe at HTC it would be that, check around bro. Also, you said blackrain was going half on you with the Amaze right? so you're not out TOO much. I say sell the One S and buy a cheaper device, or trade it for a Sensation or something as-is if you can.
You then ask to have your account disabled because you want to steer clear of XDA, but create a NEW account to ask for donations for deals that looked shady that you're already getting half for on one? That is serious nuts dude.
"I want to stay away from this site, but changed my mind to come ask for donations because of my bad decisions"
That's just unsavory bro.
And yeah I might be coming off as heartless, but I did donate to jcash and I do help out when it seems warranted.
Just my opinion, you can think on it or chew it over or throw it away or whatever.
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Who gives an eff?
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Did I miss an election where you were appointed to be a spokesperson for all forum members?
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"Who gives a f***?" can actually mean that the person who said doesn't actually care and not necessarily implying that NO ONE cares, although that implication is also a valid interpretation, so the possibility exists he meant only to communicate (quite emphatically and bluntly might I add) that HE does not actually care and did not mean to infer that no one on the boards actually cares.
I am still battling it out with HTC. I had my card on file from when I wanted to get a replacement battery but that doesn't give them the right to charge me. everything went like it was supposed to be fixed free because they didn't even alert me through email but there is a hold in my account pending removal from HTC USA for 249.99.
after long aruing through email, black rain sent me $140 but out of that I still have to send the amaze to Jordan with express ( or else there will be no tracking ). I am not asking donations for HTC repair cost. I am trying to get to get rid of it . hopefully its an error because when I track my repair status it doesn't show any update.
I posted here because I can't see the market.
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I am still battling it out with HTC. I had my card on file from when I wanted to get a replacement battery but that doesn't give them the right to charge me. everything went like it was supposed to be fixed free because they didn't even alert me through email but there is a hold in my account pending removal from HTC USA for 249.99.
after long aruing through email, black rain sent me $140 but out of that I still have to send the amaze to Jordan with express ( or else there will be no tracking ). I am not asking donations for HTC repair cost. I am trying to get to get rid of it . hopefully its an error because when I track my repair status it doesn't show any update.
I posted here because I can't see the market.
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Just call HTC and ask if you're being charged or not, sounds like you're not even being charged.
With the shipping to Jordan, find out from blackrain if no tracking is ok, or work something out, maybe he'll help for shipping (since he agree to pay half the repair cost that may not even be charged).
It sounds like you can work this all out so you have a phone and everyone is happy without having to solicit donations here, the fact that you don't want to be on XDA but came back just to ask for donations looks bad too.
HTC wouldn't just charge you for ****s and giggles. I remember my sister broke my N1 and was hoping they would just replace it since they already had to replace the screen twice for faulty hardware. Well they decided I would have to pay for it and they sent me multiple emails and even a certified letter until I responded.
For legal reasons, they won't charge you without documentation of you agreeing to the costs and terms. They might put a HOLD, but they won't charge you. I went to a restaurant with my girlfriend once at a hotel I was not staying at and they put a hold for $100 on my account, but only ended up charging me the actual cost (something like $40-something).
You can just go to your bank and tell them you didn't authorize it. They will remove the hold while they investigate.
Problem solved.
Now can a mod please close this pathetic thread.
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For legal reasons, they won't charge you without documentation of you agreeing to the costs and terms. They might put a HOLD, but they won't charge you. I went to a restaurant with my girlfriend once at a hotel I was not staying at and they put a hold for $100 on my account, but only ended up charging me the actual cost (something like $40-something).
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A lot of bars do this when you start a tab.
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