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T-Mobile making an extra buck

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bizack

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Placed an order for an iPhone 6 Plus, 128 GB, paid in full. Looked over my order to check the status, and noticed:

T-Mobile Cost:
949.99

Apple Cost:
949.00

Really T-Mobile? So let's ballpark this... say ~1,000,000 customers have ordered that phone (or *will* order that phone). T-Mobile makes an extra $1,000,000 with this little trick.

Not cool. Canceling my order out of principle.
 
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Maybe this is how esurance is really saving us those dollars. They are in cahoots with Tmob.
 
Apple doesn't do prices ending in .99 but if you look at other retailers selling iPads, MacBooks or iPhones they all pretty much do. It's not unique to T-mobile.
 
mightyjabba said:
Apple doesn't do prices ending in .99 but if you look at other retailers selling iPads, MacBooks or iPhones they all pretty much do. It's not unique to T-mobile.
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It's unique in that T-Mobile is the only carrier selling above the prices listed on apple.com.

If you buy the *same* phone from Apple (i.e. T-Mobile, no contract), it's $0.99 cheaper.
 
Steve686 said:
Have you considered Apple may charge T=Mobile more per phone, wholesale, than the other carriers because of the dual band compatibility?

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That's not full retail price. Only a "payment" to ATT to subsidize it. The OP is stating full price.
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I'm trying to think what that would buy Apple. *Maybe* if Apple thought 'unsubsidized phones won't be our big sellers, so let's add a premium to the carrier.' But if that were the case, you'd think T-Mobile would respond with 'fair enough, but we want 1/2 of your unsubsidized inventory.'
 
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