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Duckman2008 posted:Standard risk of refurbished not beig as good as new, lesser warranty on iPhones, etc. personally unless it's more than a $50 savings I don't think it's worth it. It's $125 off. I guess the $99 price for the 1020 was on sale, as it's back up to $199 now. Refurb is $75. I dunno. edit: It won't let me add it if I select add to an existing plan. It disappears from the choices. I guess it's for new customers only? 
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CharlesM posted:It's $125 off. I guess the $99 price for the 1020 was on sale, as it's back up to $199 now. Refurb is $75. I dunno. Yeah the 50% off smartphones with two year upgrades ended today, as did the $100 smartphone trade in in store for two year contracts. You can get a $100 trade in, but only for next purchases. So for better or worse, that's now the push for the next few weeks.
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Yeah I did the next 12 month (which is cheaper than the 18 months if you multiply out the payments...) got $100 for my HTC arrive (lol), so, I am pretty happy. Haven't had much time to play with the phone yet.
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OldPueblo posted:Look at that logo save that man from being sucked into his PC. Beefstorm fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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So my Nexus 4 has gone full retard and I don't want to spend the money to buy a real phone until the new year. If I buy a Lumia 520 GoPhone and stick my regular AT&T SIM in it, will it just work?
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Beefstorm posted:Reddit sure has a way of delivering... Link to the original post please.
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Shroomie posted:So my Nexus 4 has gone full retard and I don't want to spend the money to buy a real phone until the new year. If I buy a Lumia 520 GoPhone and stick my regular AT&T SIM in it, will it just work? Yes indeed. I think they're $70 at radio shack.
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Shroomie posted:So my Nexus 4 has gone full retard and I don't want to spend the money to buy a real phone until the new year. If I buy a Lumia 520 GoPhone and stick my regular AT&T SIM in it, will it just work? Maybe check on an unlocked 525. Double the RAM.
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So we have heat in our store. Roof remains a concern however. We are forecast for a couple feet of snow through the weekend. But business is picking up for the holidays at least.
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Duckman2008 posted:Yes indeed. I think they're $70 at radio shack. Same price at Walmart, which is probably where I'd go since I'm thinking about doing it right now and it's midnight. obeyasia posted:Maybe check on an unlocked 525. Double the RAM. Hmm. Doesn't seem to be available in the US yet.
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I want to clarify something: if I bring my own phone, I get the $15 discount per line per smartphone. So four smartphones on the smallest data plan would be $120/month, no contract, correct? My younger brother wants an iPhone and while I guess I could reup on Verizon, I'd rather not do the contract thing and I've never heard any complaints of service here. Do corporate stores sell unlocked iPhones or is that just an Apple store/website thing? I can't find a contract-free iPhone on the AT&T website, only 2-year contract and NEXT ones, while I can for the various Android and Windows Phones. Also, this is probably a long shot but can you speak to the reliability of V247? They're a prepaid phone service that uses the AT&T network and services the Vietnamese-American community. I guess MVNO is the correct term. An equivalent plan through them would also be $120 but the trade-off between customer service in a language that my parents can understand and the occasional text message that doesn't go through might be worth it, I dunno. edit: oh yeah, and if I do end up going with AT&T, I can just get SIM cards from them, right? Mecca-Benghazi fucked around with this message at 09:46 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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obeyasia posted:Link to the original post please. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1smqas/what_do_you_hate_but_rely_on/ Yes it would be $120. But 300mb is REALLY hard to have 4 smartphones on. I have customers and friend all day saying, "Oh I'll just keep data off!" or, "Oh I'm on wifi all day!" but it's REALLY hard to work with. I've never heard of v247, but MVNO's like that tend to suck. As for your edit, the answer is yes. Just bring in your AT&T branded or UNLOCKED GSM phones with you so we can provision them in the system correctly.
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Autumncomet posted:I want to clarify something: if I bring my own phone, I get the $15 discount per line per smartphone. So four smartphones on the smallest data plan would be $120/month, no contract, correct? My younger brother wants an iPhone and while I guess I could reup on Verizon, I'd rather not do the contract thing and I've never heard any complaints of service here. Do corporate stores sell unlocked iPhones or is that just an Apple store/website thing? I can't find a contract-free iPhone on the AT&T website, only 2-year contract and NEXT ones, while I can for the various Android and Windows Phones. If you the absolute bare minimum data plan it does come out to about $120-$125. For 4 people that is a very small amount of data, so I would go as far as recommending everyone turns off Data by default. AT&T will take any type of phone, is it the phone itself that is appealing due to being in the Vietnamese language, or is it mostly the customer service? If it's just the phone you can make sure it's GSM and just pop an AT&T SIM into it. Only Apple sells unlocked iPhones. I will say Next is now exactly the same as buying outright with those plans (or two year contract), so if you don't want to plop $650 up front that isn't a bad option. And Def go into a AT&T store, it'll be easier and everyone will be glad to help you out. To port your number you will end your Verizon account number, and activating is a one time activation fee of $36 per line.
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Although that fee is waived for Next activations, right? edit: how is the insurance program for at&t? Is it Asurion? Kia Soul Enthusias fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Dec 12, 2013 |
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CharlesM posted:Although that fee is waived for Next activations, right? Activation fee is waived if you purchase on NEXT. I will let someone else answer about our insurance. I want to gather the general feeling about it.
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CharlesM posted:edit: how is the insurance program for at&t? Is it Asurion? Yeah, it's Asurion. My only experience with it was not positive at all, but was several years ago. I bough insurance on a phone because they offered super cheap deductible on that model for some reason, and ended up dropping it a year or so later and broke the screen. They wouldn't replace it with the same model, claiming they didn't care it anymore and would only offer a shittier model as a replacement. Nothing I could do changed that at all, so I ended up getting the crappier phone to sell on eBay and cancelled the insurance. Currently I think between the high deductibles on smartphones and the monthly recurring charge, it's hard to justify.
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Insurance is simple, here are the numbers and you can make your own decision. Assume you are in some type Of agreement where you can't get a discounted phone. Example: iPhone 5S 16GB. Outright: $650 Monthly: $7 a month (make sure the $3 MPP isn't there) Deductible: $199, up to 2 claims It's really price vs risk. I would say the deductible is the same on the 64GB $850 iPhone, so the model could influence ones decision as well. Overall, most people here seem to not go for it, and the potential savings come at said potential risk. I don't know 3rd party options well enough to compare. On a personal note, my one co worker is taking the next week off because he is having a kid (can't blame him). This now puts my store at 3 out of 7 employees (we also have one manager and one assistant manager), and we are a level 2 traffic. I've already been workif 60 hours a week, so this week will be interesting.
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Duckman2008 posted:Insurance is simple, here are the numbers and you can make your own decision. Assume you are in some type Of agreement where you can't get a discounted phone. I hope your store managers remember how to work OPUS.
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obeyasia posted:I hope your store managers remember how to work OPUS. Assistant is fantastic. Manager came here as basically a demotion from one of the busiest stores, and he seriously can't process an upgrade. It's beyond pathetic. And doesn't know how to close or do anything.
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Duckman2008 posted:Assistant is fantastic. Manager came here as basically a demotion from one of the busiest stores, and he seriously can't process an upgrade. It's beyond pathetic. And doesn't know how to close or do anything. Sounds like every store manager I ever had.
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EbolaIvory posted:Sounds like every store manager I ever had. I've always been tickled by how out of touch anyone beyond ASM seems to be worth regards to anything regarding interacting with customers or basic operations. Obviously their job isn't day to day operations but at least be able to handle an op. That must be why that have to take regular trainings just in case they are needed for a regional strike.
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Duckman2008 posted:Insurance is simple, here are the numbers and you can make your own decision. Assume you are in some type Of agreement where you can't get a discounted phone. Ahhh I made a total newbie mistake, a lot of that is in the OP, sorry! Lumia is "Equipment Tier 3" according to AT&T. $199 deductible is crazy. I will get a SquareTrade warranty.  obeyasia posted:I've always been tickled by how out of touch anyone beyond ASM seems to be worth regards to anything regarding interacting with customers or basic operations. Obviously their job isn't day to day operations but at least be able to handle an op. That must be why that have to take regular trainings just in case they are needed for a regional strike. I'm kind of a typical goon nerdy fellow myself and it's still surprising when managers / people twice my age seem to lack the most basic empathy, perhaps one of the most crucial skills for interacting with customers!
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CharlesM posted:Ahhh I made a total newbie mistake, a lot of that is in the OP, sorry! Sales Managers seem to exemplify the, "gently caress you, got mine," attitude.
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CharlesM posted:Ahhh I made a total newbie mistake, a lot of that is in the OP, sorry! Is there a Microsoft Store in your area? It's $99 for 2 years, $49 deductible. Doesn't cover lost or stolen. Nice thing about it is if you break your phone in 18 months and they don't carry 1020's anymore, you get store credit to pick out the new phone without contract extension
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Yes there is. What is that called? Assurance? I forgot about that. Their website is slow as hell right now.
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Rent posted:Is there a Microsoft Store in your area? It's $99 for 2 years, $49 deductible. Doesn't cover lost or stolen. Nice thing about it is if you break your phone in 18 months and they don't carry 1020's anymore, you get store credit to pick out the new phone without contract extension I too endorse MS insurance, price is reasonable and you get a new unit instead of refurbished.
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Did they restructure the Mobile Share plans? Online it looks like now there's no per-device price drop now when you get into higher tiers of data.
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direspoon posted:Did they restructure the Mobile Share plans? Online it looks like now there's no per-device price drop now when you get into higher tiers of data. Correct. $40/subsidized equipment line. $25/unsubsidized equipment line.
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obeyasia posted:Correct. Man, I think that totally screws us price-wise if we were going to add a sixth line. Should've gone like two loving days ago.
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direspoon posted:Man, I think that totally screws us price-wise if we were going to add a sixth line. Should've gone like two loving days ago. They did end up dropping the price of the individual data tiers by some amount. Probably doesn't help you though if you're talking 6 lines on the same volume of data.
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direspoon posted:Man, I think that totally screws us price-wise if we were going to add a sixth line. Should've gone like two loving days ago. They still offer the older style mobile share plans to new and old customers. Post what you have and are looking for and someone will break down the best option.
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Duckman2008 posted:They still offer the older style mobile share plans to new and old customers. Post what you have and are looking for and someone will break down the best option. Oh, that could be awesome news. Thanks. We're on a five line family plan, but want to add a sixth line. Right now one line isn't a smartphone, but if it made sense we'd like to bump that up too, so it'd be six smartphones. None of us use a ton of data now (most are on the 3 GB plan but only use 1-2 a month), but occasionally someone will use a ton streaming videos or something because they're an idiot. And I think we're all on contract until April or so, when two lines free up. Just working out the math, I think the old mobile share plans are ~$30/month cheaper than the new ones if we were aiming for 10 GB/6 smartphones, though we might be able to get by on less data? It'd be nice not to always worry about the cap.
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direspoon posted:Oh, that could be awesome news. Thanks. Old mobile share 10GB (the 6 won't make sense): $120 for call text data $30 * 6 lines = $180 Total: $300 The new plans will make sense if you want to take Advantage of yearly upgrades, otherwise they won't.
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Here's a handy chart I made! In the top chart, the price is compared from left to right. Cheaper = green, parity = yellow, more expensive = red. The second chart compares the Value to Classic plans with respect to price. Cheaper = green, parity = yellow, more expensive = red. 
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It would be cool if AT&T let you rollover data like minutes. I'd probably drop unlimited for that. (Although I bet it would be a mobile share thing which I'm not on)
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Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Will the people at the store give us any hassle trying to get the old Mobile Share plans? The online site has eliminated all obvious mention of it, so I'd just assumed it was totally gone and they're only trying to sell this new stuff.
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SeaborneClink posted:Here's a handy chart I made! Maybe I'm just clinically retarded. What exactly am I looking at?
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