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T-Mobile Offering iPhone 6s Starting at $5/Month With iPhone 6 Trade In
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This isn't to bash Samsung (even though I hate them right now) but I've always got a notoriously worse signal with Samsung than I have with Apple, BlackBerry, or Lumia devices.
The Note 5 has a different style to it though than my 3. So who knows...
Haha, only $100 if you do it yourself, no. Last years iPhones sell for that price new, no way you can get that price on your used 1 year old phone. You're going to lose a similar amount per year just as if you take one of the other offers but the other offers are more convenient for those that want to upgrade frequently.
I wonder if they are looking at this in terms of support issues as well. The iPhone 6s is the first iPhone to full support T-mobile's extended coverage network ( band 12 / 700a ) so it should see significantly better coverage in areas where they have rolled out support.
Where do you get off claiming the buyout is heavily discounted? The buyout is exactly MSRP minus whatever payments you've made. That's not heavily discounted, that's called deferred payments with no interest.
Pricing table:
What we still don't know is how much the buyout price is.
I think they're the same as before. I also wonder what "Almost Any Other Phone" means? I have an old Droid Razr I would gladly hand-over for an extra $5/month off.
A lot of people don't follow the Apple upgrade schedule. They will see the newest iPhone being sold for 100 less than retail.
it's not the buyout that's discounted, it's the monthly payments that are discounted. according to the schedule, an iphone 6s plus is $22/mo. with an initial $200 payment. over 18 mos. that comes out to $596. the buyout price tmobile gave me on my agreement is $228 for total payments of $824. that's over $100 less than buying the phone full price.
If this $5 price is only valid for 18 months than this is a bad deal. As stated before you are only getting $270 back for your 1 year old iPhone 6 or $180 for your 2 year old iPhone 5s. Those phones are worth more. It gets even worse when you were to cancel T-mobiles service during the promotional period, than you pay $27 per month again (even after trade in of your old phone), basically robbing you of even more trade in value of you phone. (http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/iphone-6s-offer.htm)
However this deal becomes interesting if after 1 year I can trade in my iPhone 6s for an iPhone 7 and keep paying the same amount I pay now, and keep paying that as long I stay on Jump on Demand. In my case I would be trading in a iPhone 5s. So I would have to pay $10 per month. Which would account for $120 per year to lease a new iPhone every year. ($240 per 2 year, which is very similar to the subsidized price I would normally pay for an iPhone with a 2 year contract). So although I loose on my trade in value of my iPhone 5s now, I would gain on the long run if I can keep renewing my lease for the same price. However I was unable to find this piece of crucial information.
Also how good will there service be, how much difference will the long range LTE make? I know they have the 30 day guarantee however if I traded in my iPhone 5s will I get it back?
I would have to say it is ironic that the self proclaimed uncarrier actually wants to lock you into a new contract by only offering discount on the monthly price if you keep T-mobile service, they are going back to the model they blasted the other carriers for.
However this deal becomes interesting if after 1 year I can trade in my iPhone 6s for an iPhone 7 and keep paying the same amount I pay now, and keep paying that as long I stay on Jump on Demand. In my case I would be trading in a iPhone 5s. So I would have to pay $10 per month. Which would account for $120 per year to lease a new iPhone every year. ($240 per 2 year, which is very similar to the subsidized price I would normally pay for an iPhone with a 2 year contract). So although I loose on my trade in value of my iPhone 5s now, I would gain on the long run if I can keep renewing my lease for the same price. However I was unable to find this piece of crucial information.
Also how good will there service be, how much difference will the long range LTE make? I know they have the 30 day guarantee however if I traded in my iPhone 5s will I get it back?
I would have to say it is ironic that the self proclaimed uncarrier actually wants to lock you into a new contract by only offering discount on the monthly price if you keep T-mobile service, they are going back to the model they blasted the other carriers for.
I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile at the beginning of the year after a long time of muddling over the idea. It was a painful process, but well worth the trouble in the end. So glad I ditched AT&T finally. Eventually AT&T will get rid of 2 yr contracts too, but I'd never go with their NEXT leasing plans.
It will be interesting to see what happens to the market for the resale of iPhones. It's obviously lucrative because everyone is in on it now. But... will that make values drop more in the future?
T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced on Twitter that it will offer the iPhone 6s for as low as $5 per month through JUMP! On Demand with an iPhone 6 trade in, or as low as $10 per month with an iPhone 5s trade in. The exact monthly payment will range between $5 and $15 per month depending on the iPhone 6s model you purchase and older iPhone model traded in.
If you do not want to trade in your current iPhone, T-Mobile has a JUMP! On Demand promotion that offers the 16GB iPhone 6s for $20 per month for 18 months with zero dollars paid upfront, totaling $360 under the agreement the device is returned in good condition. To keep the iPhone, you must pay an additional $164, bringing the total cost to $524 -- a savings of $125 and the best deal for those willing to join T-Mobile.
T-Mobile will begin selling the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus on September 25. The smartphones will support T-Mobile's Extended Range LTE on the 700MHz spectrum, which extends the network's LTE signal twice as far from its cellular towers and works four times better in buildings. T-Mobile Extended Range LTE is live in 175 markets and covers more than half of the American population.
T-Mobile will honor this deal for customers who already pre-ordered an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus.
Article Link: T-Mobile Offering iPhone 6s Starting at $5/Month With iPhone 6 Trade In
Apologies if this has already been stated...
I went into a Tmo store today, and this is how this promotion appears to work:
- You trade in your phone, but aren't given a specified value. But it's 270 if you do the math, as stated before.
- The $20/mo Jump On Demand fee is charged each month
- A $15 "discount" or "credit" shows on the bill, making it $5/mo
- This "credit" will apply for 18 months, regardless if you change phones up to 3x per year.
- I would assume that the JOD price per month could change with different phones or different promotions. But the 15/mo credit should continue to roll for the 18 months.
Basically they're applying your trade-in credit to each month over 18 months, totaling $270, so that's essentially what you're getting for your iPhone6, as stated before in this thread.
With that said, you're saving $126 or so off the retail price of the iPhone.
Seems that they are selling the phone for what they pay for it? Roughly $524.
At least that's how I understood it.
I went into a Tmo store today, and this is how this promotion appears to work:
- You trade in your phone, but aren't given a specified value. But it's 270 if you do the math, as stated before.
- The $20/mo Jump On Demand fee is charged each month
- A $15 "discount" or "credit" shows on the bill, making it $5/mo
- This "credit" will apply for 18 months, regardless if you change phones up to 3x per year.
- I would assume that the JOD price per month could change with different phones or different promotions. But the 15/mo credit should continue to roll for the 18 months.
Basically they're applying your trade-in credit to each month over 18 months, totaling $270, so that's essentially what you're getting for your iPhone6, as stated before in this thread.
With that said, you're saving $126 or so off the retail price of the iPhone.
Seems that they are selling the phone for what they pay for it? Roughly $524.
At least that's how I understood it.
One thing: A non-plus 16GB iPhone 6s is $650. Meaning that the regular Jump on Demand price is $27/mo ($650 / 24mo ~= $27/mo). So the $15 "discount" to get you to just $5/mo, for the iPhone6s, is in *addition* to the savings T-Mobile is already extending to those customers who -are not- trading in a phone. Meaning, the trade in price for your iPhone 6 is $396.
But, it's good to hear that the monthly credits apply regardless of "jumping" when you trade in a phone. When I read the actual lease agreement for no trade-in Jump-on-Demand your credits vanish, and are forfeit, if you jump to any new phone, after the 1st of January 2016.
Can y'all help me decode this complicated matrix of agreements and monthly payments?
I have an unlocked 32GB 5S w/ AppleCare on AT&T
Want to switch to 64GB 6S w/ AppleCare on T-Mobile (I guess unlocked less important on T-Mobile)
Better off keeping my Apple Store appointment for this evening and buying via iPhone Upgrade Program? Or gonna be missing out on hundreds of dollars of savings? Don't mind paying a little more for buying directly from Apple, and don't mind selling my 5S myself, but don't want to end up w/ much steeper T-Mobile fees b/c of it...
I have an unlocked 32GB 5S w/ AppleCare on AT&T
Want to switch to 64GB 6S w/ AppleCare on T-Mobile (I guess unlocked less important on T-Mobile)
Better off keeping my Apple Store appointment for this evening and buying via iPhone Upgrade Program? Or gonna be missing out on hundreds of dollars of savings? Don't mind paying a little more for buying directly from Apple, and don't mind selling my 5S myself, but don't want to end up w/ much steeper T-Mobile fees b/c of it...
Sorry to come in late, but I think you're missing one thing: You can't just switch a current Jump plan to JOD. You have to pay off the original Jump EIP. I'm in exactly this situation, and was excited about it, until T-mobile told me I had to fork over $325 to pay off the last 12 months of my iPhone 6 EIP, and then hand in my phone for no money back up front. You only get the $5 a month pricing if you own your phone outright when you hand it in, and the "trade in value" of handing it in then gets applied every month.
Its actually a better deal to pay off your EIP of $325 (12 months of EIP), then trade in your phone for $325 up front, zero out your EIP, then buy a new JOD plan for $20 a month.