I'm pretty sick of the subsidy argument. The subsidies barely exist on anything high end, eBay is cheaper than the contract price. Sure you can get a free phone, but I'll never use a free phone again. I doubt many of us here will. But then what motivation is there not to take the subsidy? You can't get service without a contract anyway, and it's not like they give you a discount somewhere else for not taking their subsidy. Why? Because what they call a $200 subsidy is closer to $70. What everyone should be doing is buying the phone they want, taking the subsidy on whatever phone fetches the best eBay price and turning around and selling it there. But that just seems like a load of crap and a lot more work than one ought have to put in.
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Brent @ Dec 1st 2007 9:11PM
I'm pretty sick of the subsidy argument. The subsidies barely exist on anything high end, eBay is cheaper than the contract price. Sure you can get a free phone, but I'll never use a free phone again. I doubt many of us here will. But then what motivation is there not to take the subsidy? You can't get service without a contract anyway, and it's not like they give you a discount somewhere else for not taking their subsidy. Why? Because what they call a $200 subsidy is closer to $70. What everyone should be doing is buying the phone they want, taking the subsidy on whatever phone fetches the best eBay price and turning around and selling it there. But that just seems like a load of crap and a lot more work than one ought have to put in.