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How can I convince my Dad to let me get the iphone 3GS??? Like seriously?!?!?
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This thread is making me feel bad. My mom, dad, and I all got iPhone 3G s last year, and we loved them. But this year, I even stated on this forum how we shouldn't get a 3GS and just wait for next year, but I gave in. Sure I sold my phone and my dad's phone for $300 each, but the $200 upgrade fee was killer. So now my parents ended up spending around $350 of hard earned money just to get a phone with video and I got a little more space for me and my dad (mom didn't get one).
I should have just kept my 3G, but I mean sure I love the new 3GS, I use video sometimes and I like the speed, but it was a lot of money. As for you my friend, if you already have an iPhone 3G, then just wait for the 4G which will be revolutionary. If you have a regular iPhone, then tell your parents how GPS on a phone is just too good to pass up and that you might actually need it. Well next year I know that I can upgrade to the 4G off of my mom's plan and not pay that fee, but I think a lot of us came to find that 3G to 3GS was sort of a waste of money.
I should have just kept my 3G, but I mean sure I love the new 3GS, I use video sometimes and I like the speed, but it was a lot of money. As for you my friend, if you already have an iPhone 3G, then just wait for the 4G which will be revolutionary. If you have a regular iPhone, then tell your parents how GPS on a phone is just too good to pass up and that you might actually need it. Well next year I know that I can upgrade to the 4G off of my mom's plan and not pay that fee, but I think a lot of us came to find that 3G to 3GS was sort of a waste of money.
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get a job. im 14 and knew the new phone was coming out so i got a job and paid for it on my own. maybe you can to something to your dad to get money if you know what i mean. and if not just dig a hole and stop wasting your parents time money and space.
get a job. im 14 and knew the new phone was coming out so i got a job and paid for it on my own. maybe you can to something to your dad to get money if you know what i mean. and if not just dig a hole and stop wasting your parents time money and space.
This thread was destined for flaming, like seriously. 
Seriously, OP, you should take some of the good advice given and perhaps sell your iPhone to defray the costs, while working to pay the difference to your dad. I would suggest, however, that you just wait until next June for the next upgrade.
Seriously, OP, you should take some of the good advice given and perhaps sell your iPhone to defray the costs, while working to pay the difference to your dad. I would suggest, however, that you just wait until next June for the next upgrade.
tell em to get it as an early christmas present? then they can just wrap your 3GS box up christmas eve haha
My opinion with out read all 3 pages, ask him the exact reason why he does not want to get it for you. Paying for the phone it self might help.
He'll never post again because we're not giving him the answers he wants to hear. Let's let this thread die, shall we?
That was a dude?? Geeez I thought it was a Paris Hilton type girl because of the thread title......."like Seriously"
That and any constructiveness was overshadowed by mocking and rudeness. While I understand everyone can asks questions like this, I haven't heard the warrant for why we must do this to every kid that asks a question like this?
Clearly the OP was going to comeback after you asked if daddy put them in time-out...
+1 for Maturity.
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Oh, well thanks a lot for that stereotype! There are some kids, you know, who pay for their own things (like me). Maybe you should say "most" instead of generalizing every kid.
mcdj said:
Oh, well thanks a lot for that stereotype! There are some kids, you know, who pay for their own things (like me). Maybe you should say "most" instead of generalizing every kid.
I'm not suggesting that we encourage him to badger his father. No one really bothered to ask the situation or why the OP needs the phone before 20 people flamed him/her. The constructiveness of the 10 or 12 comments that were actually constructive are overshadowed by utter rudeness. I agree the OP did some things that would warrant responses like this, but it seems like whenever someone mentions the fact that they are a kid on here, all respect is lost and it's field day.
What makes you or anyone think that it's a kid. There are plenty of 20-30 year olds that still live with their parents. But perhaps that's another issue
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+1! People's selfish attitudes make them not want people younger than themself to have things they "don't deserve". That said OP, you REALLY should pay for it yourself. That's why I did with my life's savings. By the time the 4G comes, I'll have saved enough to get it.
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+1! People's selfish attitudes make them not want people younger than themself to have things they "don't deserve". That said OP, you REALLY should pay for it yourself. That's why I did with my life's savings. By the time the 4G comes, I'll have saved enough to get it.
What makes you or anyone think that it's a kid. There are plenty of 20-30 year olds that still live with their parents. But perhaps that's another issue
If they were of that age and living with their parents, I suspect we would have gotten to witness some more creative insults.
We all know that there are plenty of parents out there who simply shower their kids with gifts in an effort to show them "how much they love them".
There are lots of these kids living near me. Kids driving around with $60,000 cars and iPhones. Half of them seemingly got this stuff because daddy started screwing the secretary, divorced mommy, but wants junior to know that daddy loves him the mostest (so daddy leased junior a new BMW)!
I think many of us are simply trying to make the point that something you gain by whining will never taste as sweet as something you worked hard for and saved up for.
I can remember buying a beat up car (my 1st) that I bought with my own money from working. That car was a piece of *****, but it was a Rolls Royce as far as I was concerned because I was spending $1,000 of my own hard earned dollars on it.
I don't think many of us are "jealous" of a kid getting something nice. Many of us have good real world jobs and can buy 10 (or 100) iPhones if we want.
While I understand your point... And some users def. pointed out, what you earn is much more important...the following, were...yeah,
I FREAKING HAVE THE MONEY TO GET IT! Thats the thing. Its my money and I should be able to spend it on what I want. I never get anything anyway. I've gotten one FM transmitter in the past 2 years. Thats all I bought. But my Dad still says I can't get the phone even if I use my money and that's why I asked the question...
Oh, I mean an aluminum backed 2G!! I have a black case and that's why I said black
Oh, I mean an aluminum backed 2G!! I have a black case and that's why I said black
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