Anyone else get this? I have ordered with IUP the last couple years, but this is the first time I am seeing an upgrade charge...
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Carrier $30 Carrier Upgrade fee with iPhone Upgrade Program?
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Always, it is a Verizon staple now. Have one of my new watch too.
Dang. I'm on AT&T, and this is the first year I've gotten charged for it. Seems ridiculous being charged when the order has nothing to do with the carrier lol
Just posted a thread about this myself. It’s absurd. Carrier is doing nothing. We can obviously attempt to get it waived but that’s not guaranteed. With Apple care being available monthly now I may just buy an unlocked phone and avoid this whole thing.
I have an IUP and a sim free on the way.
Might just cancel the IUP and swap sims.
Just call and threaten to drop them for another. Works every time.
From prior experience of you swap the SIM card yourself with the sim free version they don’t charge the upgrade fee. Not sure if it’s still true.
Always been a fee for me with AT&T. https://www.apple.com/legal/sales-support/iphoneupgrade_us/
4th year for me on the IUP, first time being hit with the upgrade fee. Likely will be my last year of the IUP if thats the case going forward. Apple originally advertised the plan back with the 6s as a way to avoid carrier fees. Looks like they are walking that back now. Pretty disappointing.
Yup. Though, if you pay for AppleCare monthly, you are up charged $20 by Apple (vs the $199 upfront price) over the course of a year. So: definite extra $20 at Apple, or $30 bogus fee at carrier that MAY get waived. Hmmmmmm
theres always been a fee. I've always Called and complained to return the phone/cancel service and they wave it. nothings new
I’m not so lucky, same deal with my satellite tv, whenever I tried to threaten them of canceling they just told me please write down these steps to turn in your equipment, lol
Yup, another Verizon customer here with the $30 fee. It’s just another gimmick fee with no real purpose, I mean it’s not like someone has to manually write down the serial number on some piece of paper and snail mail it to headquarters for someone else to update some log.
Literally to activate a new phone it’s just updating the servers with a new serial number for the phone number it’s assigned to. But oh well, cost of having technology apparently.
Literally to activate a new phone it’s just updating the servers with a new serial number for the phone number it’s assigned to. But oh well, cost of having technology apparently.
He will soon.
People pay $1000+ for phones and cry about a $30 fee lol.
Might as well not buy the phone.
we try to get as much back as possible especially from these money hungry companies.
