Why Buy a Phone Directly from T-MO?
I'm about to switch from Verizon to T-Mobile. I'm looking at getting the Motorola V600. The V600 is $199 from T-Mobile online, I can get a V600 from the "mom-n-pop" wireless store near my home for $50 or I can order it from Amazon for FREE! What advantage are there to buying through T-MO versus Amazon?
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jdaviso1 said:
I'm about to switch from Verizon to T-Mobile. I'm looking at getting the Motorola V600. The V600 is $199 from T-Mobile online, I can get a V600 from the "mom-n-pop" wireless store near my home for $50 or I can order it from Amazon for FREE! What advantage are there to buying through T-MO versus Amazon?
a few things, first and foremost is mos, if not all, indirect dealers require you to sign a contract with them AND the service provider, and typically 3rd party vendors will offer those phones at such a cheap price but it will be after MAIL IN REBATES, and typically after the 3rd month of service then you can send in your rebate forms, i dont know about you but i am impatient as hell, but th...
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Buying phones online is always dumb, in my opinion. You may get lucky like this guy, but do a google search on any of the companies that sell online and look for people who have been screwed. If you have a problem, good luck getting anybody to help you with it. The Amazon rebates are especially ridiculous, because many times the actual up front cash price for the phone is much higher than you would pay up front in a brick and mortar store. Then you have to send in the T-Mobile rebate, which is usually straightforward and simple, AND the Amazon.com rebate, which usually has so many complicated instructions that it is nearly impossible to follow them properly. Just remember, if you buy online and there is a problem, don't expect to go in ...
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Buying phones online is always dumb, in my opinion. You may get lucky like this guy, but do a google search on any of the companies that sell online and look for people who have been screwed. If you have a problem, good luck getting anybody to help you with it. The Amazon rebates are especially ridiculous, because many times the actual up front cash price for the phone is much higher than you would pay up front in a brick and mortar store. Then you have to send in the T-Mobile rebate, which is usually straightforward and simple, AND the Amazon.com rebate, which usually has so many complicated instructions that it is nearly impossible to follow them properly. Just remember, if you buy online and there i
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I had a customer today that bought online and so didn't know the rules about insurance - she dropped her $400 phone that she thought she was getting a great deal on and now it doesn't work and her options are limited.
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TMG said:
I had a customer today that bought online and so didn't know the rules about insurance - she dropped her $400 phone that she thought she was getting a great deal on and now it doesn't work and her options are limited.
No difference if she used T-Mobile corporate or indirect dealer unless she opted for insurance.
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I bought 2 phones from intelenetwireless.com last year. They came in the mail in two days, already activated and ready to go. I had to wait for my first tmol bill to get the rebates($700 in all for 2 Nokia 3650), but no problems.
Right now they have V600 for free plus $75 back, hard to beat that. And you can have the phone unlocked later thru tmol.
I have no relationship with the company, just sharing my experience.
Jay
Right now they have V600 for free plus $75 back, hard to beat that. And you can have the phone unlocked later thru tmol.
I have no relationship with the company, just sharing my experience.
Jay
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rockprc said:
I bought 2 phones from intelenetwireless.com last year. They came in the mail in two days, already activated and ready to go. I had to wait for my first tmol bill to get the rebates($700 in all for 2 Nokia 3650), but no problems.
Right now they have V600 for free plus $75 back, hard to beat that. And you can have the phone unlocked later thru tmol.
I have no relationship with the company, just sharing my experience.
Jay
yep 😁
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Also be careful when not buying directly from TMO as the phones software may not be fully provisioned to work with the TMo network. You will likely have voice but may encounter diffficulties with T-Zones, Picture Messages and/or GPRS. Or as I heard from a new TMo customer in S America yesterday why does my phone (bought at a Mom and Pop) not work, its Tri band.
Yes but it is actually a Nokia 6230 sold for Cingular that has 850, 1800 and 1900 MHz bands and not the 900 band he needs.
Yes but it is actually a Nokia 6230 sold for Cingular that has 850, 1800 and 1900 MHz bands and not the 900 band he needs.
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omnivoicetmo said:
Also be careful when not buying directly from TMO as the phones software may not be fully provisioned to work with the TMo network. You will likely have voice but may encounter diffficulties with T-Zones, Picture Messages and/or GPRS. Or as I heard from a new TMo customer in S America yesterday why does my phone (bought at a Mom and Pop) not work, its Tri band.
Yes but it is actually a Nokia 6230 sold for Cingular that has 850, 1800 and 1900 MHz bands and not the 900 band he needs.
it doesnt matter if it supports 850 or 900, tmobile ONLY uses 1900, and you can send the picture message settings AND t-zones settings to your phone DIRECTLY from NOKIA's website
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true, here in the united states we only use 1900, but I believe the last reply said the person was using a tri mode phone in south america, where most frequencies are 900mhz. Our tri band phones are standard 1900, 900/1800...with a cingular tri band phone that is 850 1900/1800 ( and yes they do carry phones that have other configurations with and without 900mhz) it will work on T-Mobile here in the states, if unlocked...it wont however work where 900mhz is not, which is mostly what you'll find elsewhere outside of north america.
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omnivoicetmo said:
Also be careful when not buying directly from TMO as the phones software may not be fully provisioned to work with the TMo network. You will likely have voice but may encounter diffficulties with T-Zones, Picture Messages and/or GPRS. Or as I heard from a new TMo customer in S America yesterday why does my phone (bought at a Mom and Pop) not work, its Tri band.
Yes but it is actually a Nokia 6230 sold for Cingular that has 850, 1800 and 1900 MHz bands and not the 900 band he needs.
The 6230 comes in two versions. One has 900/1800/1900 and the other has 850/1800/1900. It has nothing to do with "software." It has nothing to do with firmware either unless the operator has instruc...
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Well as long as the company you purchase your phones from is a legitimate authorized T-Mobile agent/dealer you should have no problems. The company (T-Mobile) has contractual agreements with these sources that protect our customers as far as SERVICE...Phones however, we don't own...the source you're buying them from does...Pay particular attention to things like dealers adding their own 90 day return policy on top of our 14 day buyers remorse which does say for ANY reason you can trade/return/cancel within that time, and pay only for what you used. Dealers will often ask for "Deposits" which they hold themselves for 90 days, this is because if you cancel in those 90 days they will get their commission charged back to them...with your "d...
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Well as long as the company you purchase your phones from is a legitimate authorized T-Mobile agent/dealer you should have no problems. The company (T-Mobile) has contractual agreements with these sources that protect our customers as far as SERVICE...Phones however, we don't own...the source you're buying them from does...Pay particular attention to things like dealers adding their own 90 day return policy on top of our 14 day buyers remorse which does say for ANY reason you can trade/return/cancel within that time, and pay only for what you used. Dealers will often ask for "Deposits" which they hold themselves for 90 days, this is because if you cancel in those 90 days they will get their commission charged back to them...with your "d...
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