Motorola V710
Just my two cents........
I have been reading this forum for awhile, and just being fascinated to see so many individuals here wants the "Justice" for VZW, only because RS has the phone first for sale, and how "wrong" and "P**sed".....
Come on! Let's all using some business logic here:
VZW is a service provider, they don't make make profit on the phone unless every phone they sale is under retail price. In fact, they have to commit certain large amount of production to Motorola, just be able to have this phone released on their network. To recover such investment, they need to make sure there are as many as NEW subscribers and existing ones will sign the service on VZW network.
On the other hand, RS is a service reseller. They are selling any one's service t...
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Come on! Let's all using some business logic here:
VZW is a service provider, they don't make make profit on the phone unless every phone they sale is under retail price. In fact, they have to commit certain large amount of production to Motorola, just be able to have this phone released on their network. To recover such investment, they need to make sure there are as many as NEW subscribers and existing ones will sign the service on VZW network.
On the other hand, RS is a service reseller. They are selling any one's service t...
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hzv710 said:
VZW is a service provider, they don't make make profit on the phone unless every phone they sale is under retail price. In fact, they have to commit certain large amount of production to Motorola, just be able to have this phone released on their network. To recover such investment, they need to make sure there are as many as NEW subscribers and existing ones will sign the service on VZW network.
Ahh, but there's good profits to be made on accessories still. But that may be adjusted for already, based on the deals that RS can't offer but VZ can and the actual cost to VZ vs. RS.
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Although you are right about the profit on accessories, but, those are offered all over the place, includes Moto own web side. The real incoming for VZW is still on their services. To get peoples to sign up, expecially for those un-decided ones who are shopping for services, it is far more important for VZW than sale the equipment.
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