Switch deal
I came home from work today to find my pre-approval notice from the office of the Vice President of Cingular, Jace Barbin. I guess he considers me a good risk. Probably because I am.
So here's my offer. If Cingular pays my ETF I'll agree to leave my one year contract with Vzw and sign a 2 year contract with them. I can remember not so long ago a csr telling me that MCI would pay the cost of switching my phone service to theirs, and would pay to switch it back if I wasn't satisfied.
I would much rather be contracted with a wireless provider that allows me to use my phone the way it was designed to be used, rather than with a provider that dumbs it's equipment down in order to squeeze a few more pennies out of me.
So what do you say C...
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So here's my offer. If Cingular pays my ETF I'll agree to leave my one year contract with Vzw and sign a 2 year contract with them. I can remember not so long ago a csr telling me that MCI would pay the cost of switching my phone service to theirs, and would pay to switch it back if I wasn't satisfied.
I would much rather be contracted with a wireless provider that allows me to use my phone the way it was designed to be used, rather than with a provider that dumbs it's equipment down in order to squeeze a few more pennies out of me.
So what do you say C...
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Completely honest here...
I've never once heard about any wireless carrier pay the ETF for a customer. Ever. I've been doing wireless since 1999.
Granted I'm sure it might have happened yet I've never seen it. In fact I've never even heard of another carrier doing this.
Oh sure the custom wireless bozos promise to "pay" the ETF of a customer.. Then that customer comes in here and yells at me (VZW) why they got charged an ETF from "us" when they switched to T-mobile.... and the custom bozos say "we never said that".
I've never once heard about any wireless carrier pay the ETF for a customer. Ever. I've been doing wireless since 1999.
Granted I'm sure it might have happened yet I've never seen it. In fact I've never even heard of another carrier doing this.
Oh sure the custom wireless bozos promise to "pay" the ETF of a customer.. Then that customer comes in here and yells at me (VZW) why they got charged an ETF from "us" when they switched to T-mobile.... and the custom bozos say "we never said that".
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GWFOX said:Would "paying the ETF" be the same as "eating the ETF"?
Completely honest here...
I've never once heard about any wireless carrier pay the ETF for a customer. Ever. I've been doing wireless since 1999.
Granted I'm sure it might have happened yet I've never seen it. In fact I've never even heard of another carrier doing this.
Oh sure the custom wireless bozos promise to "pay" the ETF of a customer.. Then that customer comes in here and yells at me (VZW) why they got charged an ETF from "us" when they switched to T-mobile.... and the custom bozos say "we never said that".
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muchdrama said:GWFOX said:Would "paying the ETF" be the same as "eating the ETF"?
Completely honest here...
I've never once heard about any wireless carrier pay the ETF for a customer. Ever. I've been doing wireless since 1999.
Granted I'm sure it might have happened yet I've never seen it. In fact I've never even heard of another carrier doing this.
Oh sure the custom wireless bozos promise to "pay" the ETF of a customer.. Then that customer comes in here and yells at me (VZW) why they got charged an ETF from "us" when they switched to T-mobile.... and the custom bozos say "we never said that".
In the Industry its called a "Bait and Switch" now cingular or ATTWS ...
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I agree with you in theory, but not with those numbers. If a store gives away a $130 phone, a car charger which cost the store $2.50, a case which may have cost the store $4, and pays the customers ETF, then the store just lost even more. For me to even consider it, a customer would have to sign up on a tier 5 contract and agree to stay on it for 6 months. Then I'd have to sell them enough accessories to make at least $100 of it on top of whatever phone they wanted to get. With all that minus a $175 ETF, the store would only make $125. That's barely worth it, and one heck of a headache. The customer would've spent more in my store on accessories than their original ETF was worth.
Also, a bait and switch is when a store advertises on...
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Re: Switch deal
by GWFOX   Yesterday, 11:25 PM
Completely honest here...
I've never once heard about any wireless carrier pay the ETF for a customer. Ever. I've been doing wireless since 1999.
Granted I'm sure it might have happened yet I've never seen it. In fact I've never even heard of another carrier doing this.
Oh sure the custom wireless bozos promise to "pay" the ETF of a customer.. Then that customer comes in here and yells at me (VZW) why they got charged an ETF from "us" when they switched to T-mobile.... and the custom bozos say "we never said that".
Actually I was talking about MCI and landline local/long distance service, not wireless. Didn't mean to mislead. But the logic of it still s...
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No, it wouldn't. Verizon's ETF = 175 bucks no matter what. Plus the 200 buck discount you get on a new phone with a contract..for only a 400 minute plan? Nah man...if you were going to a 99.99 or a 149.99 plan, MAYBE (still never heard of it)...but not for a 39.99 bottom of the barrell plan.
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Ya know, IIRC, we DO NOT pay ETFs for someone to come to Cingular. At all. 🙄
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If you want to break a contract to come to us, cool, but we're not going to condone it by paying it for you... 🙄
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BigPhony said:...
I came home from work today to find my pre-approval notice from the office of the Vice President of Cingular, Jace Barbin. I guess he considers me a good risk. Probably because I am.
So here's my offer. If Cingular pays my ETF I'll agree to leave my one year contract with Vzw and sign a 2 year contract with them. I can remember not so long ago a csr telling me that MCI would pay the cost of switching my phone service to theirs, and would pay to switch it back if I wasn't satisfied.
I would much rather be contracted with a wireless provider that allows me to use my phone the way it was designed to be used, rather than with a provider that dumbs it's equipment down in order to squeeze a few more pennies
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Shayby said:"You know, that $25,000 sticker looks mighty steep...I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll give you half that...sound good?". Pfft.
When did people start making offers to wireless companies?? 😳
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muchdrama said:Shayby said:"You know, that $25,000 sticker looks mighty steep...I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll give you half that...sound good?". Pfft.
When did people start making offers to wireless companies?? 😳
HAHAHAHAHA
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Sorry just to let you know, this Jace guy is not the VP of cingular, I know all the top names, and I dont recognize his. BTW Cingular does not pay off disconnect penalties from other companies. What that might be is an agent of Cingular willing to do that, but I would be very suspicious of agents anyway, because they can promise things and then not fulfil them. Be careful, just check on it being an agent or not.
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