Quote Originally Posted by DUDE-I-TOLD-YOU:
Anyone racing to switch should definitely visit a store and have your questions answered face-to-face.
I took my family to (2) stores last week; specifically, the Saturday before this new "promotion" rolled-out on Sunday. I played a fool who was looking to jump into a big family plan with multiple NOTE II and GALAXY III's. The salesperson did their pitching, and the more attention I paid, the more "discounts" he threw out to "help me out".
Basically, for those of you who don't know anything about T-Mobile, CMJ was correct; you WILL pay the entire price of the phone off. Remember when you'd see the placard that said $129 -with new 2-year contract? Ok, well they no longer do that. They have the fancy advertised price, and under it a new Value Plan. This plan is a monthly $20 payment (in addition to your service/data plan) which will be enforced for two years. So let's say you're eyeing a NOTE II, which has a price of $750 or so. You will be charged a bulk price upfront, and the $20 payments will pay off the device. So you're paying full retail, with no discounts on plan pricing...how does "no contract" make it better?
Well, as the guy told me--it's merely a promotion to lure in people who just pay attention to the flashing colors and words on TV. If you're obligated to pay, for "2 YEARS", the Value Plan phone payment...is that not a contract? As for saving on those "unlimited" plans; the best you can do is $10/month/line, when comparing a single line to a family plan. This is for the biggest bells-and-whistles plan that includes 4G...most others stay at 3G. Sorry for the long rant, but hopefully I've saved someone the stress of driving to the mall in hopes of getting a great deal, only to hear the "fine print".
Well - I fully understand what you are saying - and am not debating the facts about the "deal".
Its pretty simple. You can either buy a phone at whatever price it is, or you can finance the phone (at 0% interest) for 2 years until the phone is paid off. Im honestly confused how you think that is "fine print" or some kind of ripoff?
Lets look at the difference between a contract phone for 2 years, and TMobile for 2 years - the difference is that a contract phone has that 20 bucks a month built in to the monthly payments - and probably more than that. If ATT is 100 a month for what TMobile charges 50 a month for + 20 a month for the phone - it is simple to see that TMobile is 70 where ATT is 100.
And BTW - after 2 years YOU OWN THE PHONE AND YOUR BILL DROPS 20 BUCKS. Lots of people ALREADY own their current phone. Why would you pay ATT a monthly price that includes a surcharge to subsidize everyone elses phone when you can pay 50 bucks a month to TMobile?
If you want truly unlimited (all the data you want at 4g) - a family of 5 can get that for 210 a month for 5 lines. I don't think you can touch that at any other carrier. More realistically, if you have 5 lines and you need only 2g of data a month on every line - you can get that for 160 a month.
Im honestly surprised and confused by your perception that the fine print on this is somehow misleading or makes it a bad deal.
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