Can someone please answer me this phone question? (unrelated)
Why are "unsubsidized" phones 300+, but if you buy one of the toss away month to month jobs, you can get them for as low as 30 in some cases?
Yes, I know you can't activate one on a normal monthly plan (not the point).
Aren't the sellers basically taking a chance of someone using it for a month and stopping, or are the phones really that cheap to manufacture and we are getting gouged?
@Ray While your question makes absolutely no sense, given its incoherence, I'll answer you oh poor lost soul.
Manufacturer make expensive and shiny phones, sell them for $600 on their Website. AT&T and Verizon sell phone contracts, very expensive and overpriced one, so no one wants to buy one.
-random moron like you : "But HEY I still WANT my iPhone/N900/HTC HD2/ Hero /DROID !!! and I don't have $600"
-AT&T (or any other carrier) : " No prob bro' ! let's get inside and talk. So you want that $600 smartphone ? hum... and you don't have $600. huhu of course I see... that's tough ! if only one could SUBSIDIZE this phone so it costs ONLY $99 !!!"
-Random moron : " REALLY YOU COULD DO THAT ?!!"
-AT&T : " Sure as long as you accept to pay for an higly overpriced service that I'll provide with 0 garanties and sign in for 36 months."
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Can someone please answer me this phone question? (unrelated)
Why are "unsubsidized" phones 300+, but if you buy one of the toss away month to month jobs, you can get them for as low as 30 in some cases?
Yes, I know you can't activate one on a normal monthly plan (not the point).
Aren't the sellers basically taking a chance of someone using it for a month and stopping, or are the phones really that cheap to manufacture and we are getting gouged?
Are you daft, or just incoherent? ;-)
No Jamie, I honestly don't know because I have never thought about it until today when I saw one in a store and idly wondered why.
I simply don't know.
@Ray While your question makes absolutely no sense, given its incoherence, I'll answer you oh poor lost soul.
Manufacturer make expensive and shiny phones, sell them for $600 on their Website.
AT&T and Verizon sell phone contracts, very expensive and overpriced one, so no one wants to buy one.
-random moron like you : "But HEY I still WANT my iPhone/N900/HTC HD2/ Hero /DROID !!! and I don't have $600"
-AT&T (or any other carrier) : " No prob bro' ! let's get inside and talk. So you want that $600 smartphone ? hum... and you don't have $600. huhu of course I see... that's tough ! if only one could SUBSIDIZE this phone so it costs ONLY $99 !!!"
-Random moron : " REALLY YOU COULD DO THAT ?!!"
-AT&T : " Sure as long as you accept to pay for an higly overpriced service that I'll provide with 0 garanties and sign in for 36 months."
Random Moron : " Oh thank you, thank you AT&T !"
Got it ?
@Félix
Ok, my mistake, didn't think it was that unclear.
I was referring to phones you get from say TracFone, VirginMobile, the ones that you buy in a package with a card for $60 for minutes.
I was curious why those are so much cheaper.