Anyone using Jump!
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You can pretty much can get all the answers on T Mobile's website. I'll be honest with you jump is pretty lame now considering you can just sell your iPhone 5s and get much more money in return towards the M8
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Under the new terms of Jump, if your iPhone isn't completely paid off you'll have to pay at least 50% of what you still owe when you Jump. It doesn't look like the M8 will have a down payment when it debuts April 11, but you'll probably have to pay the tax on the phone's full price.
The "Jump" privilege adds another $10 to your bill. So I'll just make installments on the M8 and sell my old phone myself. I'll get way more for it that way.
Don't have an answer to the OP's question, but I heard people who got onto Jump before T-mobile changed it (in Feb wasn't it?) will remain grandfathered on the old plan until they opt to switch to new version. So the older plan was somewhat better deal because one didn't had to pay half-cost of the phone before switching.
Yes, Jump adds $10 to your bill...but that $10 includes the $7.99 insurance that covers accidental damage.
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That is correct! I have confirmed this with T-Mobile directly.
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This is correct. Anyone who got on Jump after Feb 23rd I believe (could be the 25th, but def after the 21st cause thats when i switched), stays on the original plan and can upgrade every 6 months without having to pay off half their phone first.
As much as people refuse to see it, once you jump you agree to the new terms of jump.
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No you are gradnfathered into the old jump. Already jumped and I am still on the old jump.
Also it's not upgrade every 6 months. it's twice a year. You can jump after the first 6 months then after that it's anytime. So it won't reset until after your first jump has expired(1 year).
So if you jumped January 1, 2014 then jumped Febuary 22 you used your two jumps and can't jump again until January 1, 2015.
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Crap, I had the wrong idea of how original Jump worked. I thought the clock on the 12-month period started when you initially signed up for Jump, not after your first Jump. This means that if I switch to HTC One M8 like I had planned that I'll have to wait until January 2015 (first Jump was January 2014) instead of July 2014 (sign-up date). Can I really keep myself satisfied with the same phone for 9-10 months? Tough question...
JUMP2.0 is simpler. Once you have paid off half the device you can JUMP2 to a new one. Which means trade in your old device, balance owed is cleared, pay a new down payment(credit based) and start again....when you get half paid again, you can JUMP2 again....
Which one do you have?
Orig jump is after the initial 6 month cooling period you can JUMP anytime. Trade in, balance wiped, pay down payment and go. You can only have 2 jumps in any 12 consecutive months.
Eazy peazy
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Which one do you have?
Orig jump is after the initial 6 month cooling period you can JUMP anytime. Trade in, balance wiped, pay down payment and go. You can only have 2 jumps in any 12 consecutive months.
Eazy peazy
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If you have to make a down payment jump 2.0 is better. If you don't then 1.0 is better.
I don't see many people jumping more than twice a year.
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I don't see many people jumping more than twice a year.
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Original jump is way better IMO. Paying off half the phone to jump...not in my cards. Twice a year is fine for me.
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Do you guys think they will sell out in stores fast? Did the M7 sell out fast?
I would assume the S5 will take the shine away from the M8 on release day.
I would assume the S5 will take the shine away from the M8 on release day.
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2Its a 6 month waiting period before your jump eligibility starts. After that, you have two jump credits available. As soon as you use one, the clock starts. You can use both in a month if you wanted to but you wouldn't be able to jump again until your 2 credits reset 12 months after your first jump.
I don't get what is confusing about that or why anybody would think it worked any other way. They make you wait 6 months with the old program because of the fact that you don't have a minimum payment amount with it. The 50% pay off with the new jump is why they did away with the waiting period
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On the old Jump plan like I was on:
You have to wait 6 months to jump first, then you can jump any time after that. Once you've gotten that phone, you have to wait 6 months again. I got the Note 3 when I signed up for Jump, so my 6 months ended right when the M8 came out, so if the Note 4 came out tomorrow, I could get it tomorrow, but if something else came out after, I'd have to wait six months. You also pay the full device tax up front, which is about 48bux. You can also only jump twice a year, as opposed to the new Jump plan. However, everything left on the EIP from the phone is completely removed, regardless of the phone value. If you crack your screen or something, you may be forced to pay your insurance deductible to Jump, as someone got caught on that when I was at the T-Mo store on release day. You still have to trade your phone in to T-Mo or completely pay it off to do the next Jump. I just trade my old one in since Jump includes insurance and who needs the old phone. Like the new Jump, you have to be trading in your old device in order to Jump for the EIP to be nulled out. If you aren't you'll be on the hook for the remaining value.
On the new Jump plan:
You can Jump any time you want, you turn your phone in and T-Mo will pay UP to off half of the value of the phone, leaving you with the other half. You also pay the new device's full price of taxes upfront, so $48 in the case of the M8 for me. So in the case of the M8, I believe it's $636 without taxes. T-Mobile will pay $318 at most, leaving the other 318 to you (or more). As an example of my payments, I pay 26.50 a month for the phone for 24 months. That means in 12 months you would have hit half of the device price when you bought it, and you could jump at that point if you didn't want to pay the rest of it off at the time of the Jump. You could pay it off early and Jump as well, but if you sell it you end up responsible for all remaining payments as you aren't trading anything in, just like on the old plan
Both plans have their positives and negatives, but tl;dr
Old Jump: Jump twice a year, once after 6 months, once whenever, all remaining EIP payments nuked, you won't be forced to switch to the new Jump plan.
New Jump: Jump as many times a year as you want, but you're on the hook for at least half of the devices value at purchase.
Both: You have to trade your old phone in for your new one and you pay the full device taxes up front.
Hopefully that explains everything and wasn't too long and boring. I had it all explained at the store when I did my first 6 month Jump.2
I am on the old jump as well and also traded in my Note 3 for the M8 earlier today. My rep advised that I will be staying on the old jump program after trading in my phone.2
I've done three Jumps on my lines and you keep everything except the battery and phone
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk1Don't have an answer to the OP's question, but I heard people who got onto Jump before T-mobile changed it (in Feb wasn't it?) will remain grandfathered on the old plan until they opt to switch to new version. So the older plan was somewhat better deal because one didn't had to pay half-cost of the phone before switching.
