Cricket Wireless: the downside

I have elsewhere in this blog expressed enthusiasm for Cricket Wireless:

But they have some sort of a back-end glitch that's been annoying today. The credit card I have hooked to pay the account was late in getting the payment credited (not my fault this time!) so the payment to Cricket failed temporarily.

This is now resolved, but the phone network didn't hear the news as the phones I have on the Cricket plan aren't working.

I tried their support chat line, but they were just closing (apparently midnight EST) and said they can't do any changes to my account until they open at 6:30 (EST).

*splut* ... OK this time, but I'm not happy about this 6.5-hour window.

I'll try in the morning and post an update then.