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Verizon raises Early Termination Fee to $350 for smart phones

Grimace said:
Verizon raises Early Termination Fee to $350 for smart phones
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Wow... Verizon forces its customers to pay a "termination fee" but American taxpayers bailed out banks that keep Verizon afloat and Verizon itself paid no termination fee for federal aid. Imagine that! Want to punish Verizon for its termination fee? Don't buy Verizon...
 
I expect to see AT&T to do the same thing soon. It is all follow the leader.

AT&T started with forcing Data plans on the iPhone and people accepted it. Verizon saw this and saw that they could just force data plans on all smart phones. Then the others copied it. AT&T with in 6 months will raise there ETA fee up to $350 to match.
 
That's so not fair to the people who are trying to scam the system though!!!11!!!!one!!1
 
IntheNet said:
Wow... Verizon forces its customers to pay a "termination fee" but American taxpayers bailed out banks that keep Verizon afloat and Verizon itself paid no termination fee for federal aid. Imagine that! Want to punish Verizon for its termination fee? Don't buy Verizon...
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Wha? Verizon posted a $6 billion dollar profit in 2008. Seems like they're floating themselves. The only "bail out" or "stimulus" money you see associated with the wireless carries is the gov't basically bribing them to provide high-speed internet to rural areas, and AFAIK, none of them took it. :confused:
 
Rodimus Prime said:
I expect to see AT&T to do the same thing soon. It is all follow the leader.

AT&T started with forcing Data plans on the iPhone and people accepted it. Verizon saw this and saw that they could just force data plans on all smart phones. Then the others copied it. AT&T with in 6 months will raise there ETA fee up to $350 to match.
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I would not be surprised by this at all, unless AT&T uses it for a marketing advantage (which would be really dirty of them).
 
They are probably doing this because of blackberry and the waves of people pouring over the storm 2 (just like the first version) then backing out when they realize its not the greatest. (just like the first version).

I had a blackberry and it wasnt that great. There are alot of sweet phones out now and blackberry isnt one of em
 
Acorn said:
They are probably doing this because of blackberry and the waves of people pouring over the storm 2 (just like the first version) then backing out when they realize its not the greatest. (just like the first version).
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Thankfully, people still get 30 days to back out (after a purchase) before the ETF comes into play.

I really think the majority of people that this new ETF will effect are the people scamming the "buy any BlackBerry, get a second BlackBerry for free" promotion that Verizon's been running.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/...=//global//phones+and+accessories//blackberry
 
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