Any reason not to go with the Easy Pay plan if buying on Sprint?
Went to the store today. Cleared up a few things, my store will be getting some phones on Friday, some will be reserve/preorder and some will be store stock.
They don't know what model/color/or size or how many, could be 3 could be 30 etc. maybe some +s maybe not. Confirmed they will open early and have 2 separate lines.
Easy Pay- is leasing/renting but you own the phone after 24 payments, or at any point in the contract you can pay it off in full and that charge will be dropped from your plan. Initially it is 10-15$ more a month on the phone payment depending on model and requires a down payment plus the tax. 60$ plan plus phone cost, could be 80-95$ depending on phone picked single line plan.
Ip4 life- no down payment, do have to pay the tax. Don't own phone after 24 payments but can pay sub at the end and keep phone or nah, and get new upgrade with no charge except tax. Plan is 50$ plus phone cost, could be 70-85 depending on phone picked single line plan.
On family share at the 100$ rate you pay 15$ per line plus the phone cost i.e. 2 lines would be
100$-20gb data unlimited talk and text
+30$ (15$) x2 phone access fee
+40$ (20$) x2 iPhone 6 16gb (iPhone 4 Life) upgrade option
-170.00 plus tax
If you buy the phones and change to the plan with the same scenario it would be130.00$
Add another of the same phone it would be 145.00$ if bought outright which would basically be 50$ a month which is pretty good.
Then there's also the trade-in credit, minimum of 200$ and it goes up depending on model, size etc.
and even better if you qualify for a discount( students, business, military, vet. etc.etc.)
Just for example, we paid a little over 200$ a month for 3 iPhones on the old plans.
Now with 3 if we don't upgrade, our bill would be 145$ plus tax, and a 20% percent discount off the 100$(=80$then) for the family plan, which would then be 125$ plus tax for 20gb on 3 devices.
If we go 6 16gb and 6+64gb on the easy pay it would add 25$ +35 for those models, roughly, so now 125$+60$=185$ still cheaper than before and with new phones on early upgrade option, if we did the same but used iPhone for life it would be like 170$ a month.
You could also apply all the trade credit to one phone and buy it outright, easy pay the other and still get down to 150$
Activation fee applies to all new lines/device unless waived etc.
Rep not 100% sure but confident they will receive phone shipments 1 to 2 shipments a week for reserves and store stock after initial launch, similar to 5s, which I got in store while everyone else around here was waiting for preorders which was the last of a Friday shipment on Saturday evening.
Nothing's guaranteed, but I'll take my chances in store stalking for a 6+ rather than the 4-6 weeks and we'll take your money now route.
Grain of salt. YMMV.
I HAVE 3 stores within 10 minutes of house. Some others in less populated areas about 20-30 minutes away and 2 Apple stores about an hour away, if all else fails I rock the 5s and keep Savin money then just buy it outright on Black Friday or somethin.
Hope this helps some.
