Totally doesn't make it okay. Misleading is misleading, doesn't matter if it's "herpderp marketing!"
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T-Mobile CEO Misleads on 'No Strings Attached' Free Data, New Customers Require $20 Data Plan to Finance iPads
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Totally doesn't make it okay. Misleading is misleading, doesn't matter if it's "herpderp marketing!"
No one said "free financing, no strings attached" so I don't think the definition is in question.
It's 200Mb per month for life. The 200Mb you just signed up for expires 1 month from now. If you use it next month, you'll get another 200Mb.
T-Mobile is dysfunctional from top to bottom and back again. Still my favorite carrier, though.
Of course they didn't... it never states anywhere you have to be intelligent to qualify to purchase an iPad.
Naivety is naivety... if something seems too good to be try, it probably is. It's the buyer's responsibility to know what they're getting into.
NO kidding... I went to log into my prepaid account to see the options and it is BORKED right now.
Shop at Apple
I think the moral of this story from wading through all these comments is that you get a much better experience shopping at the Apple Store, not going to the T-Mobile store.
Haven't seen anyone getting hit with bu****it $10 SIM charges on top of buying the iPad at Apple.
I think the moral of this story from wading through all these comments is that you get a much better experience shopping at the Apple Store, not going to the T-Mobile store.
Haven't seen anyone getting hit with bu****it $10 SIM charges on top of buying the iPad at Apple.
The press release did, and so did the CEO via his tweeter.
I quote," EVERYONE get 200mb free data monthly, no string attach, no exception." " everone get 20mb gree data monthly and %0 financing"
no exception means no exception. To say financing and 200mb are two different things in the aftermath is not really a good PR strategy IMO.
Free means no cost and no payment.
When you promised FREE data then one can expect FREE and truely FREE, but not some data plan in order to get FREE data.
If it was T-mobile's intend to do 200mb and 0% financing separatedly, then t-mobile should have included an "EXCEPTION", which should read," everyone get free 200mb except new financing customer.
There is no charge to activate a prepaid account... they charged you 10 bucks for the SIM despite what they say. I purchased one of the 99 cent Tmobile SIMS about a month back to put in my iPhone when I jump to Tmobile (they're free now BTW) and created my account and had my 200mb data up and running in under 30 min... I'd say more along the lines of 10 min. tops... didn't pay a dime more than the $1.08 for the SIM plus tax.
Ultimately, yes, but that doesn't excuse a company's marketing being completely misleading.
but you're still wrong
new financing customers still do get 200mb free too, on top of whatever their plan gives them
if you pay $20 for 500mb and receive 700mb, you've gotten 200mb free. $30 for 2.5gb+200mb. $40 for 4.5gb+200mb
get it out of your head: financing has nothing to do with the 200mb. if you want interest free financing, you must be a paying customer. thats it. end of story. don't even bring up the 200mb in regards to financing.
I still can't see the problem. There are two statements.
Everyone gets 200Mb free data. They do. There are plenty of people who have activated this on T-Mo for free over the weekend.
Everyone can get 0% financing. They can. They don't have to but they can if they want. Just because there's not a finance charge, it doesn't mean there aren't other conditions that you have to meet to use that service.
People using the financing plan aren't excluded from the 200Mb free data. They get that too as well as what ever they're paying for. There's no exception because they're not excluded.
It could be a good PR strategy or not (there's certainly plenty of people talking about it here and elsewhere). That wasn't the point of the MacRumors article. The article asserts that the free data is misleading but everyone does get free data.
Ugh.
This 'article' is terrible reporting. It's conflating free data with free financing.
Walk into an Apple store, hand them your credit card, walk out with an iPad and enjoy your free 200MB data.
If you want FREE FINANCING you have to be a paying T-Mobile customer. If you're not a T-Mobile customer, fine, just use your credit card or whatever.
I don't know what to say, this sentence is just wrong.
This 'article' is terrible reporting. It's conflating free data with free financing.
Walk into an Apple store, hand them your credit card, walk out with an iPad and enjoy your free 200MB data.
If you want FREE FINANCING you have to be a paying T-Mobile customer. If you're not a T-Mobile customer, fine, just use your credit card or whatever.
I don't know what to say, this sentence is just wrong.
It is not FREE, if you have to pay to get something that is "FREE", it is not FREE.
When you put a cost on something, the term FREE no longer exist.
IT IS NOT FREE. Damnit, i feel like i am talking to a wall
I will give you my one millione dollar super car Audi R8 for free, but you have to buy my Bel Air $13 million dollar house.
Is the car free? no, it COST you 13 million to get the car
Secondly, if financing and the free data are to be two separate thing, then the press release should have read, " 200mb or %0 financing", and not " 200mb and %0 financing."
And around we go again. That's marketing. If it wasn't, the world would look like this:
http://honestslogans.com/
FREE financing is not FREE because you need a data plan, therefore FREE is not FREE anymore.
T-mobile should stop using the term FREE.
ONLY existing customer can finance freely and get free 200mb.
Only people who brought their own device get free 200mb.
NEW financing customers do not.<----this is clearly an exception that contradicts CEO's tweet and t-mobile's press release.
Tmobile is the Poster Child of being a lying sack
It royally frosts my keester when these companies try to use a play on words to rip consumers off. Do they really think we are that stupid?
I saw right through their lie when I went to the Tmobile site to sign up for the so-called "free" 200mb of data. Hmm... a $10 monthly charge is added.... yep, they are lying sacks of excrement.
Now, back at AT&T, at least they are upfront about their data plan charges for the iPad..... $14.99/month for 250mb or $10 per month on a family share plan.
I don't know about the rest of you, but i'll go with the company who is more truthful any day, even if it costs more. Tmobile reminds me of Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinski scandal... "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is".....
Yeah, and Tmobile's 200mb data plan "is" free.....
It royally frosts my keester when these companies try to use a play on words to rip consumers off. Do they really think we are that stupid?
I saw right through their lie when I went to the Tmobile site to sign up for the so-called "free" 200mb of data. Hmm... a $10 monthly charge is added.... yep, they are lying sacks of excrement.
Now, back at AT&T, at least they are upfront about their data plan charges for the iPad..... $14.99/month for 250mb or $10 per month on a family share plan.
I don't know about the rest of you, but i'll go with the company who is more truthful any day, even if it costs more. Tmobile reminds me of Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinski scandal... "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is".....
Yeah, and Tmobile's 200mb data plan "is" free.....
It royally frosts my keester when these companies try to use a play on words to rip consumers off. Do they really think we are that stupid?
I saw right through their lie when I went to the Tmobile site to sign up for the so-called "free" 200mb of data. Hmm... a $10 monthly charge is added.... yep, they are lying sacks of excrement.
Now, back at AT&T, at least they are upfront about their data plan charges for the iPad..... $14.99/month for 250mb or $10 per month on a family share plan.
I don't know about the rest of you, but i'll go with the company who is more truthful any day, even if it costs more. Tmobile reminds me of Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinski scandal... "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is".....
Yeah, and Tmobile's 200mb data plan "is" free.....
well put!!! hahahah Bill got brought back yet again hahahaha. Forever the reference hahaha
Probably true. It is 6 months for a verizon ipad sim. If 6 months go by, it's dead and you have to go get a new one.
It royally frosts my keester when these companies try to use a play on words to rip consumers off. Do they really think we are that stupid?
I saw right through their lie when I went to the Tmobile site to sign up for the so-called "free" 200mb of data. Hmm... a $10 monthly charge is added.... yep, they are lying sacks of excrement.
Now, back at AT&T, at least they are upfront about their data plan charges for the iPad..... $14.99/month for 250mb or $10 per month on a family share plan.
I don't know about the rest of you, but i'll go with the company who is more truthful any day, even if it costs more. Tmobile reminds me of Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinski scandal... "It depends on what the meaning of "is" is".....
Yeah, and Tmobile's 200mb data plan "is" free.....
All this really proves is that you don't know how to activate data directly from the iPad. You don't sign up for it on the carrier's website unless you're on a post-paid plan. If you have a T-Mobile SIM in your iPad you can go into settings and add the 200MB data plan, free of charge.