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mattopotamus

macrumors G5
Jun 12, 2012
14,666
5,879
"Verizon Above, Beyond, Do, Play, or Get Unlimited plans."

When you have too many nonsensical options for me to even visit your website.
 

4jasontv

Suspended
Jul 31, 2011
6,272
7,548
"Verizon Above, Beyond, Do, Play, or Get Unlimited plans."

When you have too many nonsensical options for me to even visit your website.

I went and looked. A lot of the plans offer 6 months free of some combination of Hulu, Disney, ESPN+, or Apple Music.

Hey, VZW. These are an ad - not a promotion.

I got a Dell because it came with 6 months of Norton.
 

dmylrea

macrumors 601
Sep 27, 2005
4,795
6,841
The link for TMobile does not show this deal. They show add a line, buy 2 phones and get one free, but nothing about this deal.
 

VPRunner

macrumors member
Sep 20, 2019
88
100
Yeah!!! We are back to treating existing customers like they are in a contract and don’t deserve the same deals even though they didn’t get hardware subsidies! Why do we even need three carriers? Let ATT absorb Magenta. That’s not even a real color.
Actually everything that you read that is in print and color is printed in the magenta
 

Amazing Iceman

macrumors 603
Nov 8, 2008
5,285
4,031
Florida, U.S.A.
Last I saw new customer referrals pay @ $250. That’s not exactly small. I don’t have issue with MR doing this to help pay bills, but I do think transparency could be increased. The disclaimer should be at the top, and I wish MR would post every 3 to 6 months what their affiliate payouts have been per company.
I don't think it's necessary as this website is provided to us free of charge.
It's supported by Ads and Sponsors, as, they need to raise money to maintain the site and hopefully get compensated for their hard work.
Take the $ 250 and subtract an amount to cover operating expenses, then divide the difference by 13 people in their staff, and you'll understand how small that is.
 

bigjnyc

macrumors 604
Apr 10, 2008
7,851
6,719
Pro tip: any time you see an article combining "iPhone deal" with cell carriers, that's a quick way to know the article isn't worth reading.

Unless you are thinking of switching carriers or adding a line lol. It never fails whenever I see an offer like this you have to switch over, add a line, trade in a phone and give up your first born lol.
 
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MrTmo

macrumors newbie
Aug 28, 2020
1
0
It's a lot of smoke and mirrors. T-Mobile deals are legit. Verizon is responding as a knee-jerk reaction to T-Mobile starting to cut into their base. Tmo caused the Verizon customers to get better pricing that's for sure. They had no choice to lower them.

Everyone pays less for the service now. It's the phones that are crazy in price.

So if your die-hard Verizon, which is the direction they seem to heading, get as much cash as you can. It seems to be ripe for the picking for a consumer right now.

Verizon pretends to have a 5g network that services a few city blocks of a few big cities. Ooh, impressive! They spent more on what appears as a bogus ad blitz touting their 5g than they must have spent on the build out of the network thus far. Maybe 5G is the number of people that are able to use it. Maybe it should be 5k instead.

I'm just saying look at the map. If you zoom in really close, you can see the little red specs. It was nice that they let you zoom in to street level, because that's how far you have to zoom to see the coverage.

AT&T tried to purchase magenta and it didn't work out. Now they are number 3 and fading in significance.

The best is how many definitions Verizon has for unlimited. I didn't know there was more than 1.

I went to the unlimited salad bar. I went to get something in a certain section and they said im sorry sir, you only purchased the unlimited salad bar. You can't come this far down the bar. See on the floor, your unlimited salad bar stops at that red line, you're now standing in the unlimited unlimited salad bar area. You can have more unlimited but you have to pay more.

Love advertising. It tells everything but the truth.

I go with a company that says unlimited and that's what it is. Its.....unlimited! What a concept.

Just my limited viewpoint. I do have an unlimited one though. But that cost extra to hear.
 

Bryan Bowler

macrumors 601
Sep 27, 2008
4,024
4,347
Not only are you trading in a phone (that you could have otherwise sold), but often times it’s like pulling teeth to get the “monthly credit” actually added on to your bill. I did one of these “deals” when switching over to T-Mobile and it was a disaster.

Never again.
 
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4jasontv

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Jul 31, 2011
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I don't think it's necessary as this website is provided to us free of charge.
It's supported by Ads and Sponsors, as, they need to raise money to maintain the site and hopefully get compensated for their hard work.
Take the $ 250 and subtract an amount to cover operating expenses, then divide the difference by 13 people in their staff, and you'll understand how small that is.

Small is generally classified as less than $25 in value.
 

4jasontv

Suspended
Jul 31, 2011
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What do they do with your old iPhone X or XS Max? It’s not like these are vintage devices; they are still currently supported with the latest iOS updates.

They refurbish them and resell them or use them to avoid paying for replacement units.
 
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kesennnnn

macrumors regular
Jul 15, 2020
125
119
Taipei
Canada never gets deals like thus tho. But definitely a last attempt to get new customers with iPhone 11 before new models come out.
 
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burgman

macrumors 68030
Sep 24, 2013
2,714
2,292
It's a lot of smoke and mirrors. T-Mobile deals are legit. Verizon is responding as a knee-jerk reaction to T-Mobile starting to cut into their base. Tmo caused the Verizon customers to get better pricing that's for sure. They had no choice to lower them.

Everyone pays less for the service now. It's the phones that are crazy in price.

So if your die-hard Verizon, which is the direction they seem to heading, get as much cash as you can. It seems to be ripe for the picking for a consumer right now.

Verizon pretends to have a 5g network that services a few city blocks of a few big cities. Ooh, impressive! They spent more on what appears as a bogus ad blitz touting their 5g than they must have spent on the build out of the network thus far. Maybe 5G is the number of people that are able to use it. Maybe it should be 5k instead.

I'm just saying look at the map. If you zoom in really close, you can see the little red specs. It was nice that they let you zoom in to street level, because that's how far you have to zoom to see the coverage.

AT&T tried to purchase magenta and it didn't work out. Now they are number 3 and fading in significance.

The best is how many definitions Verizon has for unlimited. I didn't know there was more than 1.

I went to the unlimited salad bar. I went to get something in a certain section and they said im sorry sir, you only purchased the unlimited salad bar. You can't come this far down the bar. See on the floor, your unlimited salad bar stops at that red line, you're now standing in the unlimited unlimited salad bar area. You can have more unlimited but you have to pay more.

Love advertising. It tells everything but the truth.

I go with a company that says unlimited and that's what it is. Its.....unlimited! What a concept.

Just my limited viewpoint. I do have an unlimited one though. But that cost extra to hear.
Lol first post and it’s a T-Mobile commercial. I just signed up with AT&T iPhone Pro Max 256gb for $8 per month after $1000 Credit over 30 months. Their promotion requires a trade in minimum value of $60. Used an old Android that was in the drawer. 25% off for military discount with free HBO Max. 100GB then Depo with 30 GB hotspot. Guess AT&T doesn’t give affiliate links ? I’m seeing over 200 down so for now 5G is irrelevant.
 
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menace3

macrumors 6502a
Aug 13, 2008
606
186
Seattle, WA
64GB won't do crap for me. Hell the porn on my phone takes up more storage than that. KIDDING!!!! Basic bottom of the line phone that traps you in a contract that ends up costing you more. No thanks.
 
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