Normally with employee accounts, you pay the 1 yr price for the phone that you want. There normally isn't a credit check unless you have had your employee account cancelled for non-payment.

well we are an authorized agent dunno if that changes anything or not.

it does change a lot.
yes you have to pay full price for a phone, or acquire one (a friend or ebay). you do need to pay a deposit if you fail the credit check, but it WONT be $400. i think the max deposit for an employee line is like $100 or $125. so make sure your wonderful boss isnt tryin to pull a fast one on you.

thanks for this info it only my second week here. It very boring job no ever shops here. I am greatfull i have the job just wish it was busy.

It will get busiy. Is it a new store? It took us about 2 months before people really saw us here.

We do have dish network though, so that makes the slow days easier.

it been open for about 2 months. I wish we had dish here i would sell like a manic lol. I used to own dish sales in my rs days.

I wish dish would sell here. People hear you can't get the phillies (cause comcast sports net is blocked) and they walk out the door.

Once you get the employee plan, get mobile web on it (or email and web if you go for a blackberry) it makes it more enjoyable. You'll also spend a lot of time here, reading the forums.

One thing we did to try and bolster sales is we started ordering in from different restaurants in the area, and asked if we could leave our information there. Word of mouth is everything anymore. We are the third retailer to open in this area, but we are the one with the most new activations by far because word got around about why it was a good thing to come here as opposed to other places.

wow thats a really great suggestion and I here you on the phillies thing Lol comcast are the tv giants there and they control everything. 😛

Odd that you were asked for a deposit on an employee line.

Correct me if I am wrong, by an authorized retailer is a franchise and not employed by verizon so perhaps that could be why?

Not sure how indirects work with phone programs.

We get an employee program, but we still have to go through the credit check since if we stop working there, we keep our lines, and verizon doesn't want to be stuck with a ton of back fee's if someone decides to stop paying.