Sorry for the delay folks here is the letter I was talking about. And NO there is no well talk to someone higher this is some higher. I finally did get a reason as to why. There reasoning was well you had an EVO and upgraded to the iphone had that for 5 days and exchanged to the Photon which you had a few days then returned and went back to your EVO. You abused the trial period. WOW abused excuse me you offer it. Buyers beware.
FYI, there is a $36 activation fee, charged to your account, not paid at the counter, to new phone activations. If you return the phone for anything but a defect, you are still required to pay the fee, because Sprint cannot sell that item as new. Since you activated and returned 2 phones, you were charged for two activations.
I ran into this problem in September when I returned a Photon, because I wasn't willing to accept the random reboots and muting of calls as "all new phones have some glitches". I told the rep on the phone the Photon was a safety hazard, because if the problem occured while attempting to dial 911 I'd be screwed. The rep understood and the charge was credited.
I can't speak to the cancellation, but that's where the charges originated. It wasn't a penalty for activating the phones and returning them, it was a standard charge for activating, you simply returned the phones because you didn't like them for some non-defective reason and they booted you for it.
Sprint is dropping the ball in a few ways right now (like doing away with the Premier services, allowing for annual upgrades for Gold members) and about to lose me as a customer after 13 years. If you offer 3rd best data speeds and marginal coverage, you'd better KILL in pricing and customer service. They have the pricing part right (then again, I wouldn't pay more for the speeds they offer).
Hope this helped clear up SOMETHING.