My son's birthday is around the corner on the 15th - his upgrade was less than a week ago, so I couldn't get in on the pre-order - and when I got on the Verizon website - it said early November - Apple wasn't much better. So I called a Wal-Mart for the hell of it - the guy told me he sold the last one the day before.. Well. I started dialing - I found one less than two miles away - he told me he could hold it for an hour. I was there in 15 minutes....
The whole process was easy quick and simple - I had to activate the thing, but I was able to re-activate my son's phone before he knew it..
The interesting thing was - I looked at my receipt - I live in California - here you are charged tax on the entire unsubsidized price of the phone - so $199 + tax on $649... But NO - It was $189 and tax on $189 only, looking closer at the receipt - it had two interesting fields - there is a place where it mentions Early Termination Fee - There is reads $0. Also with Verizon, there is a $30 upgrade fee. On the receipt it states N/A - Now I know that Verizon will probably add that to my bill, but it would sure be nice to hold them to a zero early termination instead of $350...
I know that can also be rescinded at the carrier level - but hell, at least I got away with $40 of tax!
And I have a nice iPhone 5 ready to wrap for my son and won't look like a jerk when he opens the box and doesn't get an IOU...
Cheers
The whole process was easy quick and simple - I had to activate the thing, but I was able to re-activate my son's phone before he knew it..
The interesting thing was - I looked at my receipt - I live in California - here you are charged tax on the entire unsubsidized price of the phone - so $199 + tax on $649... But NO - It was $189 and tax on $189 only, looking closer at the receipt - it had two interesting fields - there is a place where it mentions Early Termination Fee - There is reads $0. Also with Verizon, there is a $30 upgrade fee. On the receipt it states N/A - Now I know that Verizon will probably add that to my bill, but it would sure be nice to hold them to a zero early termination instead of $350...
I know that can also be rescinded at the carrier level - but hell, at least I got away with $40 of tax!
And I have a nice iPhone 5 ready to wrap for my son and won't look like a jerk when he opens the box and doesn't get an IOU...
Cheers
