How to to find deals on cell phones without new service?
July 23, 2005 8:23 AM Subscribe
Is there anyway to find good deals on cell phones without new service?
I really want to get the Treo 650, but I have a long time left on my existing Verizon contract (over a year). The difference in price is like $199 (w/ new service) to like $600 or $700 (no service retail), which is pretty ridiculous. Any suggestions?
I really want to get the Treo 650, but I have a long time left on my existing Verizon contract (over a year). The difference in price is like $199 (w/ new service) to like $600 or $700 (no service retail), which is pretty ridiculous. Any suggestions?
Contact your provider. We have Cingular and wanted to upgrade our phones about 8 months before we were due for new ones. They had something called a "good service exception" or something like that and this waived the time limit, allowing us to get our phones at the "new user" price.
Call Verizon; it can't hurt. If you call and it doesn't work, try online. If that doesn't work, try going into a store. There may be different deals each way.
posted by Doohickie at 11:01 AM on July 23, 2005
Call Verizon; it can't hurt. If you call and it doesn't work, try online. If that doesn't work, try going into a store. There may be different deals each way.
posted by Doohickie at 11:01 AM on July 23, 2005
Does Verizon offer a family plan? My wife and I are Tmobile customers, and I just add a new line to my family plan (for an additional $10 per month - at least here in Portland, OR) when I want a new phone. I take the SIM card out of my old phone (line #1 on my plan, with my wife's line being line #2) and put it in the new phone and use the new phone as my primary phone. I then sell the old phone on eBay (I don't actually use the SIM card for line #3). The eBay sale helps defray the additional $120 per year I have to pay for the third line on the family plan. And after the required one-year contract , I cancel the third line. You can get great deals on cell phones at Amazon. You can have up to five lines at a time with Tmobile's family plan, so you can get new phones a couple of times a year if you want.
posted by yaquina27 at 10:13 PM on July 23, 2005
posted by yaquina27 at 10:13 PM on July 23, 2005
I found a good deal on an unlocked Treo 650 through PriceGraber. I bought mine for $570 from NewEgg (+ $5 FedEx Saver Shipping).
posted by Handcoding at 10:14 PM on July 23, 2005
posted by Handcoding at 10:14 PM on July 23, 2005
EBay. You can get essentially new phones there for half the price of mint-in-box ones.
posted by Anonymous at 2:00 AM on July 24, 2005
posted by Anonymous at 2:00 AM on July 24, 2005
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by kindall at 10:45 AM on July 23, 2005