Can you get any of these from Sprint, Verizon, or T-Mobile? If so, I think the OP can help you out.
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Can you get any of these from Sprint, Verizon, or T-Mobile? If so, I think the OP can help you out.
In the end, you want service from someone, right?
Why not skip all the BS, trade your iPhone 4 in at Verizon for a free 6, and then stay on Verizon for $48 a month?
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So you are claiming to make $400-500 per hour?
Why not skip all the BS, trade your iPhone 4 in at Verizon for a free 6, and then stay on Verizon for $48 a month?
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So you are claiming to make $400-500 per hour?
Jesus christ, all this to get the latest bloody iPhone. What's so bad about being behind? I'll be going iPhone on my next upgrade and will likely only be able to afford a 4s on contract or 5 at the most. Do I care? Hell no! It will still be a great phone that will do everything I need it to do and do it fast.
This "loophole" is dishonest, a little bit pathetic and just outright despicable. I pity the OP.
This "loophole" is dishonest, a little bit pathetic and just outright despicable. I pity the OP.
This is so much work and is almost certain to backfire in some way with an unexpected element of the fine print that's being overlooked. So with that in mind, I say the OP should go for it so we can all have a good laugh when he's stuck with a huge bill at the end of it.
I recommend sticking with your current plan, and when you are eligible for an upgrade, switch to Sprint's financing plan that lets you upgrade every year. I assume they have one now to compete with Jump/Edge/Next. Or heck, call Sprint and ask if you can switch to that plan now and then do your upgrade in a month or two when you're eligible. It's got to be simpler than this mess.
I recommend sticking with your current plan, and when you are eligible for an upgrade, switch to Sprint's financing plan that lets you upgrade every year. I assume they have one now to compete with Jump/Edge/Next. Or heck, call Sprint and ask if you can switch to that plan now and then do your upgrade in a month or two when you're eligible. It's got to be simpler than this mess.
there is only one credit check through Verizon when purchasing the subsidized iPhone 6 on contract. Tmobile doesn't require a credit check because they do not have contracts. I believe they will check your credit if you finance a phone through them, but in this scenario no one is doing that.
Classic. This coming from someone who self-righteously derides phone scalpers. Hypocrite much?
There is a difference between legality and ethics, which you obviously don't understand. You're no better than the scalpers you hate so much.
If you don't do the credit check I believe you have to put the 1st months payment down.
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please explain
With no credit check you don't qualify for ETF reimbursement. Any post paid service has a credit check. Try again kids.
I got a good credit score; I was able to open a post-paid account on Verizon with no problems.
Well there's nothing illegal about iPhone scalping (really reselling). Once you buy a device you have the right to do with it as you please. The real push back is the ethics of it driving up prices.
you have to pay taxes in the sale which most people don't do.
there are always other stuff I don't like about the scalpers such as cutting in line or littering all over the place.
Slightly off topic, but since credit checks came up, Does AT&T do one when you start with a regular 10 device family share plan and then switch to NEXT and buy a new iPhone 6+?
They do a credit check when you initially sign up for the account not when you upgrade the devices.
Exactly. So why not use a legit credit card and earn rewards points than be ghetto and use carrier hopping as credit? Make your money work for you.
Oh and T-Mobile etf requires purchase of a device. At least spread correct information man
I called my CC co. a few days ago but they refused to lower my interest rate
Thanks, I'll charge the device onto my CC.
Thx. I just got my bank to upgrade one of my accounts last week from $5K at 15% to $10K at 11% with rewards, and I don't want another credit check for a while since I just bought a new car in August as well.
After doing the math I think that AT&T NEXT may not be best for us. My AT&T store was recommending that I go back to the Apple Store before it's too late Friday, and see if they will refund and then re-ring up our iPhone 6 and 6+ on the NEXT plan, since my son and I like to upgrade every year.
Because we have 5 phones upgraded at different times, we get 3 upgrades one year and 2 the next year, then it repeats with 3 the next year and 2 the year after that, etc. However, my wife and daughters only like to upgrade every 2-3 years, or they take our 1-yr old phones when we're done with them. They don't care.
So, usually my son and I will use 2 of our upgrades every year, and when we pass down last year's phone we sell the oldest deactivated phones to help pay for the new ones. That helps defray the upgrade cost, and nobody has a phone older than 2 years.
The Math:
Right now we have 5 phones and 5 iPads & pay $160 for 15GB, $30 x 5 phones, $10 x 5 iPads = $360/mo not counting the cost of the phones that we buy outright (we spend about $2600 over a 2 year period after Applecare and taxes on 5 phones, which would amortize out to $108/mo if we didn't pay them off, or $41/mo for just 2 phones).
With our 2 iPhone 6's on NEXT we'd pay $130 for 30GB, $15 x 2 NEXT phones, $40 x 3 old phones, $10 x 5 iPads, and $42.50 x 2 for the new iPhone's cost = $415 total including the cost of the phones. But with all 5 of us on the NEXT Plan we'd be paying $467.50/mo to AT&T, which is almost the same cost over a 2 year period with us paying for our phones outright on our current plan.
Except that with NEXT, after we add in the additional $700 cost of taxes and Applecare+ for all 5 phones, the NEXT plan actually costs us more over a 2 year period; although everyone would have a 1 year old phone instead of some of us going for 2 years, and we'd get 30GB when we only need 10-15GB.
I understand that with NEXT we can choose to not upgrade after just one year, and the monthly charge stays at $15 when the phone is paid off in 20 months, and we then own the phone and don't have to trade it in.
Decisions, decisions...
I called my CC co. a few days ago but they refused to lower my interest rate
Thanks, I'll charge the device onto my CC.
Lol it just makes me laugh how you're willing to put in 5 times the effort and eff your credit up for a phone. I think we've all beat the subject down enough. Let's close the thread.
How is it dishonest? Who are you to moralise about the actions of others?
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Yep, that's a great analogy.
The OP trying to save a few hundred dollars without breaking any laws by working within the system created by the corporations for their own benefit is EXACTLY like the US crime of felony murder of a police officer.
*slow clap*