I see what you are saying but the agreement with the Next is strictly for the price if the device period nothing else it is kind of a like buying a car lol you agree to pay so much for the car per month and in so many months it is paid for but if you don't pay it gets repoed but with the phone you can keep just pay the remaining bal of the phone with no other penalties
Your still under contract. It would cost less for me to break mine than it would for you to beak yours (read above post) I pay no penalties for being under contract, so I dunno why you threw that in there. Your gonna loose your note 3 if you ever want to upgrade unless you completely pay it off.
Well I guess in your eyes I'm not in a contract either because I can leave whenever I want if I pay an ETF. Basically it's the exact same situation with you. You have to pay a "fee" to leave out of your "contract" early. I dunno about you but that sounds like an early termination fee to me, just more than I would wind up paying. In that case you would get to keep your phone. You keep on referring to your cell phone loan and your vehicle loan and using bogus examples that don't correlate with each other. Instead of saying you aren't obligated to stay at the log for 2 years you should have used fuel. You can't use your phone to its function without service just like you can't drive your car without fuel. If that said lot was the only place you could fuel your car you'd have to go back and refill your fuel (or data just like people that go in store to pay their bill) to use the vehicle. Your only obligation is to pay for the device. The service is paid to make it work. There. Fixed that mess for you, next the information was gathered by actually calling att and going through the steps to deactivate my account (they have a separate extention that deals with all deactivation requests). I got the numbers I needed before she finalized the deactivation, explained why I did what I did, thanked her and asked her not to continue. Those numbers are as solid as they can be, check for yourself if you don't believe. Lastly you don't have to keep the phone but why give att back the device you've half paid for? Sell it on Craigslist and use that money towards the next device and bill.
you've done nothing to prove me wrong and you can't accept the facts listed in the links. Why did you even come back here and post that rubbish? You typed nothing that contributed or helped you. What was your point? I didn't see one. You chat like your some giddy schoolgir laughing and rambling. You have nothing valuable to contribute.
Actually I originally was staying a fact but you Mr know it all stepped in so I was using comparisons that even my 7 year old could understand to help understand the difference in a contract for service and a payment plan for an item that you are purchasing but your ego is to big for you to SHUT THE **** UP lol good day have a good night once again
Your original post. You were fine until you said you weren't under a contract. I don't know how hard it is to understand that there is more than one type of contract. I signed a 2 year agreement and you signed the next agreement. They are both contracts weather you realize it or not, even the ATT website says so. Your analogies with the vehicle were so flawed in so many ways that I didn't even pay them any mind, I pretty much skipped over that section of your posts.
You are under a 2 year service agreement by which you are tied to them for that period I am not if you leave right now you will pay a penalty I on the other hand will just pay for my phone in full instead of payments the only reason you paid 299.00 for your phone is because they give a discount for signing a2 year service agreement or contact
Yea, I understand all this already. If you decide to leave now your penalty is having to come up with the amount for the rest of the phone. You would have to owe att 600 or so to leave them. It's basically the same thing except you have to pay for your device in full where I do not.
You would have to pay for your device in full if you cancel your service anyways, no different than paying an etf. I can upgrade every year as well, just pay my etf of 195, upgrade and sell my note on Craigslist and make a profit. Your going to loose out when you upgrade. The benefit of the next program is not having to pay up front. There is no difference in paying the etf or the rest of your next loan besides the etf will be cheaper because you had to pay up front when you got the device.
I would have to pay full price for the phone anyway whether I stay or go because I dig Sgt sign a service agreement and if you think about it you will be paying pretty much the same price I am. .. You bought your phone and paid upfront and if you break your contact you have the etf to pay which equals out to about the same amount and you have to sell your phone break your 2 year agreement then pay for another phone just to upgrade every year when I simply walk into the store pick out the new phone give them the old one and leave no hassle no 2 year contract I am happy. What people don't understand is by the time these phone companies give you a deal on your phone for signing a2 year and proving the services that they offer to you they don't make any profit off of you until almost the end of your agreement that is why they charge the etf if you leave before the end of the contact
This is where I believe they are getting people. Sure it's less hassle to use next but let's look at this.
Like I said I have worked for 2 out of the big 3 wireless carriers and they all operate the same and I could sit here all day and explain things to you and you wouldn't truly understand until you have been on the inside and see how things go down and yes they make money off of service and equipment but they don't start seeing the profits until about 8 months into the second year of your contact because they still have to pay Samsung 700.00 for the phone they just gave you for 300.00 and the cost to maintain the network and all they break that stuff down to you when you work there and go through training that's why I laugh at people when they say they spoke with someone over the phone because 95%of the people that work in those call centers barely know how to turn on a phone most of what they are telling you comes from an internal data base or script that is designed to get you off of the phone as quickly as possible for example when I worked at VZW I had 3 minutes to get you off of my phone no matter what your issue was our I got in trouble so I would tell you anything you wanted to hear to get you of the line I would even transfer you to get you of my phone lol
Here's a good read about the different plans comparative to next
I kind of like the argument. It might help him actually understand his agreement with AT&T as a lot of people do not. And Next is absolutely a ripoff as are all the other "early" upgrade carrier deals.
Any time a person on XDA or any of the other device/carrier forums on the Internet says this I immediately disregard their posts. Selling cell phones at the mall does not equal some sort of omnipotent knowledge of specific carrier or overall industry practices... it just means you sold cell phones at the mall.
