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Difference in phone prices - Online or phone sale vs. Going to a corp store.

jog

Dec 22, 2004, 4:32 AM
Why is there a difference between the phone prices when you purchase it from calling the CService rather than going to a reg corp. store? I went to a corp store because I got an offer through the mail and the manager of the store said that they cannot compete with the price of the phone sales.
Are they training the customers to deal with the phone centers so that Cingular can get rid of the expense of paying for the rent or lease on regular stores.
Or are there two different sales departments for Cingular..

MMMMM.... Makes you wonder.. Same company different policies...
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Iselltheshitoutofphones

Dec 22, 2004, 9:11 AM
Jog,

Ah.....the difference in Cingular's pricing....a whole different forum can be dedicated to this question. Cingular has a weird heirarchy when it comes to pricing. On- line is different than tel-sales which is different than Corporate store pricing which is different than Agent store pricing which is different from Best Buy pricing.

I worked for an agent store for Cingular for a year and I now work for a company called Wireless Retail which does all the Cingular in Best Buys and Sam's Clubs. Here is how the whole skeem of things works:

When you order on-line, you typically get the best pricing whether you are a new customer, migration, or upgrade customer. The reason why it is cheap is the minimal amount of labor that goes into ...
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