you lost at least $200 on the trade in. You are still paying $5 a month to rent the iphone 6s. You are paying $8 a month in insurance. So you are paying over $350 a year to rent the new iPhone. Not the best deal out there.
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i disagree but it depends on your perspective... just by upgrading i am getting a cheaper bill from 83 to 53 and even lower if i get rid of the insurance.
Current
83x12 = 996
New
53x12 = 636
+ 100 down payment
= 736
Just by upgrading i save $260 on my bill over the course of 12 months. I use 12 months because next year i will upgrade again to iphone7
To your point on trading in. If i dont trade in then the cost per month would be $19 with no trade in. (correct me if im wrong)
the future bill would be:
$40 plan
$27 phone
$(8) bill credit
$8 insurance
$67 Total
x12 months
= $804
+100 up front cost for 64gb
=$904
The difference would be
904 - 736 = $168
so maybe i lost $30-40 bucks in trade in but at least i dont have to worry about selling my phone on craiglist
let me know if i mis-understood what you were saying
Quantum
I had the EXACT same issues as you did when I was with T-Mobile and I am in NYC. Not a small town either. The service was great, if I was outside. It went dead as soon as I entered my apartment or any other massive structure that New York has an abundance of. I even had a T-Mobile engineer come out to my area, contact me, and even came over to my place to take signal readings. He even made adjustments to the tower nearby as I sat in my apartment with EDGE or no signal at all.
The straw that broke the camels back was missing out on several jobs (I'm an actor and can get booked for a gig the night before but must get back quickly or get replaced) and it was because I was in a building with no reception. When I added up the costs of losing those jobs, I wrote to the office of the president of T-Mobile and was released from my contract without an ETF. I had already been complaining to them routinely as their maps are indeed inaccurate.
Went to Verizon, no trouble since. Yes it costs more but I can rely on it and the times I have LTE with them vs T-Mobile is night and day. Would I want cheaper? Sure but not if I have to go through with what I experienced with T-Mobile. Don't even get me started about how badly their network fails on a soundstage. So for my circumstances, it's Verizon or bust.
And it's really too bad because T-Mobile has some great deals. I just can't deal with them until they get spectrum that can penetrate a building. Then I'll reconsider. Word has it they have improved but I still think they need more time.
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You forgot about your current iPhone 6 which is worth $400 on gazzelle and quite a bit more elsewhere.
I figured this might happen since trading in an old smartphone is the only one that's a good deal.Looks like they took back the "almost any other smartphone deal"
Those TOADS! After all that time I spent searching for that old iPhone3g last night and this morning. Finally found it and logged in to see this. Huzzah!
He has the 64 gb version and I rounded up. All my numbers are just estimates. No need to go into details to find if these deals are good or not. They are not.
Yeah, they should of never mentioned the $15 deal if they hadn't narrowed down the list of phones yet.
The devil is in the details. You don't know if its a good deal or not until you dive into the details. A perfect condition, unlocked, 64GB iPhone6 gets you only $365 at Gazelle.
Although it is kinda silly that they are giving the exact same trade in value for a 16GB iPhone6 that retailed for $650 as a 128GB iPhone6+ that retailed for $950.
You're correct but he's wrong about JOD being a contract lol. You can't pay off phones on a phone contract, you have to serve your time. Pay off your phone anytime on JOD 18month lease it's just like regular EIP, except EIP don't do upgrades. However you can get multiple phones and any phone you want at anytime as long as your bill is up to date, sales taxes are applicable. Wi With Jump on Demand you're not force to go the entire lease agreement just to pay off the phone. If you want to own your phone before your lease is up. You pay the remainder of the lease and phone balance. On top doing that you can start another lease over. So no it's nothing like a 2yr contract at man, lol. Here go info a pic and links below explaining Jump on Demand buying options while leasing.You can, but you'll lose the savings. I signed up for the JoD when it was $15/mo with the trade in of any smartphone. It is $27/mo minus a monthly credit of $12. So if I decide to payoff the phone in say month 6, I'll lose out on $144 by paying it off 12mos early. They know what they're doing
http://www.whistleout.com/CellPhones/Guides/t-mobiles-jump-on-demand-guide
http://www.whistleout.com/CellPhones/Guides/t-mobile-jump-on-demand-vs-sprint-lease
Here's a final list of our favorite features of each plan to help you decide:
Sprint
- Cheaper monthly cost (usually)
- Option to continue leasing after 2 years without signing new contract
- More phones available
- Current Unlimited Plan deal – one month free when you buy on Sprint Lease
- Shorter leasing period
- Can pay off reamaining payments and Purchase Option Price At Anytime
- Plan includes three yearly upgrades at no extra charge
- Current iPhone 6 and 6 Plus deal saves you $12 per month, or $216 in total
That's incredibly rude. "miserable"? C'mon. I don't know where you live but please don't **** on a place I chose to move to and love very much. I've lived in various parts of Florida and San Francisco. I spend weeks a year in Western Europe and the nordic countries and I love coming back here to enjoy life. Please keep uninformed comments to yourself going forward.
How did i forget about that? I mentioned that without trade-in the JoD would be $904 and with trade-in it would be 736.
The difference would be
904 - 736 = $168
you said i lost a gain of $200. not sure where the came from but i was assuming that's the $200 i supposedly lost if i were to sell my iphone6 64gb to random person.
the "suppose gain" i lost would only be 32$ but tmobile is also giving me $10 bonus to tradein so the loss is down to $22 bucks.
anyways it depends on each person situation.
for me its a great deal because i will be saving $360 which is more than $30 a month of savings on my monthly bill.
but i guess agree to disagree. i am stating what happened to me so other people know that this is how it worked for me.
Quantum
You're totally right, that guy have absolutely no idea what he's talking about lol. I can get 4g on my old phonewithout band 12 in my Doctors office now. I'm also getting 4glite with my new phone that has band 12 plus Volte now in the same building. Where I wasn't getting any signal last yr just a big X with emergency calls only displaying. Sad that people don't research nowadays before speaking negative about things. T-Mobile making huge strides with their network, they're not playing about it.
I think it does, we've got a 5c with a crack in the corner of the screen and tmo told me to try and find another iphone yesterday... today of course that has all changed again so I'm going to be paying full price for one of the lines/phones.
It's obviously a bad deal when T-Mobile is offering less for the phone than gazzelle, and we can all agree that gazzelle is not offering a good deal.
Without trade in you still have a phone that you can sell for a good amount. That is what a lot of people forget and that's how T-Mobile will make money.
I would have to sell my phone for $600 or more for it to be a better deal.. anyways you're probably just trolling these threads and telling people how bad of a deal it is without any sense
How did you get that number??
$270 is what you have to beat to get a better deal. $20/month without a trade in; $5/month with trade in; $15x18=270!
I think Judas1 looked over the fact you were on the previous Jump program and that they paid off the phone ($320) and (+) you are getting $15/mo x 12mo ($180) discount = $500 for your previous iPhone. I don't think you can get that much for your phone on any re-sell site. I thought the trade in only applied to the monthly discount, but you are saying you get the value for your trade plus a discount on the new iPhone. Or this might be a special case for older Jump plan participants.
I also think you are slightly miscalculating your savings since you are not including the $6/mo tax in your new bill ($72). The taxes will most likely be very similar since there are no taxes on the equipment fees, which is where you are getting the majority of your savings.
I think it might be intensional on T-Mobile's part, but people seem to think they're getting credit for the value of their trade-in in addition to monthly credits for the new phone, but I read it that T-Mobile is giving credit for the trade-in as the monthly credits. That makes more sense since people want the new phone so much they forget that their current phone is still valuable. The amount T-Mobile is paying for your phone is $270 which is less than gazzelle which is much less than fair market value.
its an estimate of course and yeah i dont know what my taxes are. My thinking is i am getting taxed before and after so they will cancel each other out in terms of savings.