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in-store dummy phones

boxswatter

Dec 7, 2004, 1:50 PM
i just switched my wife from sprint and will be switching myself as soon as the SE s710a gets here. anyway, the question is; why does cingular use dummy phones in their stores instead of real ones like sprint uses? i'm sure it's just money but i would think that a customer that doesn't already know all about phones would like to be able to play around with them and then possibly buy a more expensive phone once they've seen what it can do. or is just the cingular stores i've been in that are like that?
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AGENT DEBIT

Dec 7, 2004, 1:54 PM
Those phones used to walk out of the stores like they had legs, just a cost savings feature
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Vox Dei

Dec 7, 2004, 2:43 PM
I've seen some dealers that activate real phones but not too many. Like he said they tend to walk out of the store or people will try and see how much damage the phones will take before breaking and they inevitably find out.
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