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AT&T Offering 'Buy One Get One Free' Deal on iPhone 6s

Perfect for me. I have 2 tablet lines, I upgrade one line, add a line, then cancel one of my tablet line. You get a 6S 16gb free but if you want a 64gb you pay the "difference" of $100. Same goes for the 6S plus. Basically get $650 and gotta pay the difference ($200 for the 64gb 6S plus).
 
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If you were born on the 3rd Thursday of a leap year and your area code is less than the square root of the gross national product of Uganda, you are eligible for a free iPhone upgrade placeholder voucher trade in coupon, minus handing, taxes, activation approval fees, and 11.6% deferment amortization charges. All you pay now is $900.*

* not available in the original 13 colonies or within Cleveland city limits. Offer ends the day after yesterday at noon.
 
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FelixDerKater said:
I think this says less of the popularity of the phone than the fact that people don't like being directly confronted with paying for their phones as opposed to having the payments lumped into the (higher) basic service costs...
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Or people who have paid off their iPhones are enjoying the lower monthly rates nowadays. Iphone 5 is still a very functional phone on iOS.
 
The article fails to mention that it has to be a new line activation for the bogo. The device you pay for can be an upgrade the free one has to be new activation.

No you won't be able to pay in full and still get monthly credit for the device.


ocabj said:
I'm trying to understand this. I think the way this can work is if I upgrade a line on AT&T Next, I can pay for the second iPhone in full, then get the $650 in bill credits on that AT&T Next line's iPhone each month. If this can work, then I think I might get the deal to upgrade my dad's phone. My parents' phones/lines are all covered by me on my plan, and I just recently bought a Sim Free iPhone 6s Plus, and gave my dad my old iPhone 6 to replace his 5. If I get this deal, I can just get him the iPhone 6s, get another new iPhone 6s, then sell off my old iPhone 6, and give my mom the 'free' iPhone 6s, take her iPhone 6 and keep it for backup.

*EYES GLAZED OVER*
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drewyboy said:
So, sign up for Next and be stuck with them for 30 months to actually get a "free" phone. How about I solve a Rubik's cube while blindfolded... it's probably an easier task.
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If you pay off the phone in a month than that phone is out of contract than..is it not?
 
At the end of the day Apple is making their money. They sell to carriers at one price. Those carriers can do what they please with their stock even if it means selling at a loss.

This speaks nothing about iPhone sales as the offer is available to Samsung as well. It speaks more about the competition in the wireless market in the US.

this deal also applies to any iPhone 6s whether plus or not. If you opt for 128 gb 6s you will be responsible for the 200 dollar difference in monthly installments. Same idea applies to the plus.


KPOM said:
True. It could be AT&T, given how aggressive T-Mobile has been. But it fuels speculation about Apple's sales, as well.

Given the comment here, it could be more of an AT&T thing. They key catch is that you need to open up a new line (i.e. you can't just upgrade 2 lines). Oddly, you need to buy 2 of the same OEM (i.e. you can't get an iPhone and a Samsung).
http://9to5mac.com/2015/12/11/att-iphone-6s-buy-one-get-one-free/#comments
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lkalliance said:
I just chatted with an AT&T rep via the online chat. She confirmed that if I get a 6S (or 6S Plus) I do get a second iPhone...but NOT the 6S/Plus, but a 6/Plus. And 16 GB. I was going to ask about getting the credit instead and using that on whatever phone I wanted...until she confirmed that this was on new lines only. So I stopped right there.
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Your chat rep gave you incorrect info. It's any iPhone 6s or 6s plus no matter the storage. Att will only cover up to 650 and the requirement is its a new activation.
 
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2015 apple, apple products finally drop from exclusive to excellent deal status. Had to happen eventually. Maybe as others have said, the market has finally been saturated.
 
hbenitez09 said:
The article fails to mention that it has to be a new line activation for the bogo. The device you pay for can be an upgrade the free one has to be new activation.

No you won't be able to pay in full and still get monthly credit for the device.
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Yeah, I eventually came across that as the discussion thread continued. Totally not worth it.
 
ghost187 said:
If there is even a 1% decline in YOY sales of the iPhone for the holiday quarter, watch out below for the stock (which I can care less about, just saying).
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Apple should let the stock do whatever it wants. And if it comes down low enough, they should buy themselves off the market and stop this insanity.

They bring in enough revenue to make insane profit, pay their staff and fund R&D. They have $200 Billion in the bank. Any private company would be laughing but Apple are seen as 'doomed' if they don't outdo themselves.
 
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Just chatted with AT&T who offered a hack to upgrade two existing lines but get the promo with a new line activation....

1. Start a new line and get a new phone
2. Upgrade existing line A with 2nd phone
3. Replace new number with number from existing line B (I didn't know this was possible), so that the new line has your old number
4. Cancel old line B (which no longer has the number you want to keep)

I didn't pull the trigger yet.
 
agsystems said:
Oh the horror Apple doings BOGO deals...cue the "Steve would have never done that"...:p
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True, Steve WOULDN'T have done that :p But then, Tim didn't do this, either. It's AT&T taking the financial hit for this so they can bring in more customers.

The reason, of course, is that the carriers make their money on your service, not on selling you a phone. I work at T-Mobile, where employees get 75% off their data plan, which tells you that at least 75% of the cost of average joe's data plan (probably more) is pure profit.

So say you have these two lines on a $100 data plan for these 30 months on AT&T, and that AT&T makes 75% of that in profit. That means that in total they made $2250 off of you, plus a little for selling you the first iPhone (probably $50-100, Apple doesn't give the carriers a very big piece of the pie on the device sale), and in return they give you $650 in bill credits to make the second iPhone "free."

So yeah, it's not a bad deal for you, but AT&T still wins in the end. They wouldn't do it if they weren't going to make a profit on the deal. The same applies to T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint. The goal is more monthly bills coming in, always. Nothing wrong with that; that's business for you.

But just thought I'd throw in some perspective. :p
 
dhoerl said:
While everyone else what chatting, I went out and took advantage of this. Amazingly the ATT Mall store was empty!

My wife and I have a family plan. Both of us had iPhone 5s phones that are "off plan" now. So we went in to get a 6s and a 6s plus both with 64G. You buy both phones, but then get $22 or so credit for 30 months (aka the "Free Phone"), so the second phone is essentially discounted $22*30.

The gotcha is, you need to add a "new" line. So I bit the bullet and took a new one (my wife is the only person who ever calls me!). Now we have 3 lines - but - I can cancel the older number (which I had for20 years - sigh) anytime and reduce the plan to two lines. So after the dust settles, will cancel the other line (hopefully tomorrow).

It gets even better - there is a promotion on an exchange - ATT is giving us $200 if we trade in one of the 5s phones within 14 days. That's close to $100 more than the standard trade in. Make sure you ask for the promotion price.
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port your number out to google voice if you really wanna keep that old number. you can then still forward calls from gv to your new # ?
 
question: im on verizon so i dont know how att works in this case... when the iphone 7 comes out, would i be able to buy it from apple at retail cost then insert my sim to the iphone 7 without the att system bitching about it? and what am i able to do with the "old" iphone 6s ? since i still gotta make the monthly payments for xx amount of months...
 
mcdj said:
If you were born on the 3rd Thursday of a leap year and your area code is less than the square root of the gross national product of Uganda, you are eligible for a free iPhone upgrade placeholder voucher trade in coupon, minus handing, taxes, activation approval fees, and 11.6% deferment amortization charges. All you pay now is $900.*

* not available in the original 13 colonies or within Cleveland city limits. Offer ends the day after yesterday at noon.
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Man, why aren't you in the top? You made my day!:D
 
ghost187 said:
If there is even a 1% decline in YOY sales of the iPhone for the holiday quarter, watch out below for the stock (which I can care less about, just saying).
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In my opinion, AT&T - not Apple - might be pushing this BOGO offer because they need people to switch to the Next plans for accounting reasons.
 
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