Comments on: T-mobile deal of the week

By: Ravi

Ravi — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:31:15 +0000

I’ve learned a few things about the T-mobile price matching:

- It is under the managers discretion to apply a price match credit to pricing

- It applies only to new activations or add-ons. Does not apply to renewing contracts or upgrades

- The rebate will not work if it results in the customer recieving additional money (i.e if you make 50 dollars after the rebate) But its still worth a try. Most of the time the Sales rep will not issue a price match to a point where you make money.

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:15:06 +0000

I was just on the Motorola site, that is apparently run by letstalk….they are offering the new E8 for free after rebates w/2yr contract. I printed out the pages and will take them w/me to TMO when I go later today. The papers show the site url as motorola, so we’ll see what happends. I am fully prepared to buy the same phone off of ebay so that I won’t have a contract. It will end up being the same price in the end.

By: tmoguy

tmoguy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:18:29 +0000

Just added a new phone line to my current family plan and was able to get a BB Curve for $149 and $100 rebate…total cost will be $49 after he rebate check arrives. I actually called my local T-mobile store and they said, yep we are matching Walmart’s price. thanks for the info!

By: barbiie

barbiie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:51:22 +0000

well don’t come into my store in philadelphia, we don’t price match. buy it there if its cheaper.

By: Lancerevo

Lancerevo — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:14:11 +0000

As many people have already said already this offer does not apply to upgrading customers only activations.. And even on activations its at the will of the manager of that particular store cause the actual policy states it will match any nationally advertised pricing on a phone. I’d say you have a very very beyond slim chance and getting them to price match walmart for a free wing let alone give you 50 dollars to take one. The reason letstalk and the other websites can offer them so cheap is you are actually signing 2 contracts one with the web company and one with t mobile. We can’t do any price matching on upgrades because our systems don’t allow it. It spits us out a price and we have to stick with it. There isn’t any option to change it or even take off the upgrade fee.

By: TMO4LIV

TMO4LIV — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:01:48 +0000

Here is proportionately part of the skinny. In honesty it’s up to the store to honor this. T-Mobile is becoming a more budget conscious company and therefore discounting is frown upon. A few years ago there were documents sent out saying we should price match. Well, that’s changed at least in my area. If a customer came in and said hey price match this. I’d have to turn them down since this is a hit on revenue. So, if you go into a store and are rejected that is why. It’s not that anyone is trying to be mean it’s just frowned upon now a days.

By: Nwahs

Nwahs — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:47:32 +0000

This does NOT work on upgrading. ONLY on new accounts/adding a line.

It may not work some places, but it worked for me.

By: T-Mobile Rep # 2

T-Mobile Rep # 2 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:59:26 +0000

Somebody comes to me stating to match up a price they saw at wal-mart, is not getting NOTHING…they paying what the t-mobile price card states, no less..unless it’s a nice 5 line deal ;)

By: J-Nic

J-Nic — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:25:25 +0000

Sorry if I missed it, but can current customers with contracts get this or should I go to the store and ask..

By: LazyCody

LazyCody — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:49:18 +0000

above the list of phones there is a series of drop down menus, I changed the one that said “Choose Purchase Type” to renew, and the prices jumped way up. Does this mean that as an existing customer with expired contracts I can’t get the badass deals when I renew?