Comments on: Amazon Gets In On T-Mobile Father’s Day Fun

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:57:22 +0000

The estimated delivery says by june 23rd.

By: Jared

Jared — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:55:32 +0000

Does anyone else have their order from Amazon still saying”not yet shipped”? I ordered mine on saturday and I figured it would ship today.

By: Joshua Streeter

Joshua Streeter — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:59:33 +0000

Brian,

I learned to sell in the 4th grade, whilst doing a fund raiser for my hockey team. I couldn’t sell a $.50 candy bar to save my life. Until I jokingly told a fellow 10 year old, “I’ll give you TWO for FREE if you just donate a dollar.” I eventually was banned by my teacher from selling, as I was moving 48 candy bars a day…to 31 students.

I thought as adults people wouldn’t fall for the same tricks 4th graders are prey to. Nope. I, like you, did that same math and came to the same conclusion. I also had confusion on the simplicity of it all. It’s so blatantly obvious that this is a load of crap that I had to keep sniffing.

Yep, still crap.

By: sami

sami — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:30:41 +0000

just ordered a t-mobile mytouch slide for $0.01. and that was the upgrade price!!!! im already on a family plan and i just extended my contract for 2 more years and i basically got it for free!!! amazon is awesome!!!!!!

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:44:36 +0000

You’ve got a family plan. Indivdual plan is $20/mo more for Even More (opposed to the no contract even more plus). This makes the phone actually more expensive with this deal.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:41:28 +0000

Someone check my math but this seems like a bad deal.

In order to get it for free, you have to sign up for a Even More plan, which is $80/mo (with 500 min/web/text), $20 more than Even More Plus ($60/mo), so subtract that difference and the phone ends up costing a total of $480 over the required 24 months.

However, buying the phone at retail price from T-Mobile is only $450, and T-Mobile offers the no-interest option to pay it off at $22.50/mo for 20 months, still $450.

So this deal locks you into a contract and charges you $30 more, and this is for the more expensive phone, cheaper ones will cost you even more over time. The only advantage I see is if you are opening a new account you save $5 because they waive the $35 new account fee. (Or maybe this would work to add a line to a family plan?)

Am I interpreting this correctly?

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:02:48 +0000

Let me let you know, Amazon is telling people that if you have the family unlimited non-contract, that this offer will not force you into the higher cost contract. This is not a good deal, any way you shake it. Scam, avoid at all costs.

By: auburn99

auburn99 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:45:36 +0000

I’m not sure where people are getting a $20 month increase. I just ordered a MTS for $0.01, kept my same family rate plan, and monthly unlimited text & data was $40 per month. I was already paying $34.99 with my mytouch 3g so that is only $5.01 more per month. After I get the phone I plan to call T-mobile and ask to keep the same data/text plan. Even if they say no, $5 more per month is worth it for a free phone. Very happy with Magenta!

By: Joshua Streeter

Joshua Streeter — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:45:03 +0000

You know what would be simple? If Tmo explained their pricing for what it is. Having just looked into Tmobile recently, I honestly thought that there had to be more to it, as this is blatantly calling a phone “free” and then requiring you to make payments on it.

I’d rather have them tell me that they have ONE set of plans, and if you want to get a phone with “no up front cost,” you need to commit to 2 years of paying off the phone. $20 premium X 24 months = $480 (or, about the cost of all these smartphones) But $480 is not FREE.

I have no problem buying a phone outright, and paying for service. In fact, that looks like what I’m about to do. And now that I’ve looked further, I may even take a chance on Simple Mobile’s new UNLIMITED data plan for $60/mo.

Unlimited, of course, means that if you use too much data, they’ll turn down your speeds for the rest of the month. Gotta love the marketing!

By: K. Ray

K. Ray — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:17:44 +0000

I’m glad that I waited on a phone. The selection available would not satisfy me. The HD2 is soon to be discontinued. There is to be a Android device with the latest version preinstalled next month. If you did the free phone thing now you would not be eleigable for an upgrade next month. I hope the rep that I spoke with at the shack was right and I think he was telling me the truth.