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coming from evo 4g, im due for an upgrade and am wanting the e4gt, and am trying to find the best deal possible. where do you guys go for deals when upgrading your phones?
$150 seems to be the best price i can find online, from amazonwireless, but they're out of stock for the next 8-9 days.
I bought mine from Wirefly via Bank of America's "Add-it-Up" program. $150 from Wirefly, $50 cash back from BofA, and no sales tax shipped to California was $100 net cash money out the door. Worth the extra return hassle during the first 14 days and the handcuffs Wirefly puts on you for the first 6 months.
It was just .01 on Amazon wireless but it seems that ended because I checked today and its back up to 99.99 and 149 for upgrade. Man you just missed that 1 cent deal
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Got mine off Target mobile. Che k Best Buy mobile, Tiger Direct Mobile, Walmart Mobile, Wirefly, etc. All these stores that are by simplicity have good prices, but some are lower than others.
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Craigslist =]
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I bought mine at best buy.
Craigslist. I buy most of my phones off craigslist. Typically you can talk people down in price because they dont know what they have.
Try Let's Talk. Not sure what price they have but was very impressed with their customer service.
http://www.letstalk.com/?ilr=1
Sprint is the cheapest off contract.
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Amazon Wireless. Unfortunately I bought mine right before the 1 cent deal they had this week. I would've bought it at Best Buy in-store but for $100, no sales tax, no activation fee and free shipping was too good to pass up.
Either radio shack or the sprint store.
I usually get mine at best buy. I mainly just get it there for the insurance they offer. $10 a month and they cover everything but lost or stolen. Used it about 10 times on my Droid incredible in one year and got it replaced in about 2-5 days. Oh and no deductible on the insurance
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Best buy
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got 2 epic 4g touch from amazon for a penny each!!!
Got mine from Amazon for ยข1 n a $100 dollar Amazon gift card back.
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I bought my Epic 4g Touch at my local corporate sprint store. I have found that corporate stores usually have the ability to give you deals and exploit little loopholes that are sort of floating around in the sprint corporate system that non-corporate stores/contractors do not have access to.
Since switching to sprint I have had an Evo 4g, Nexus S 4g and currently the epic 4g touch. Despite being with sprint for less than 2 years I have paid below the rebate price for each of these phones. Each time I have gone into my local corporate store, I find the nerdiest guy in the store (basically, I look for someone like me) and then I nerd out with him over smart phones and tech stuff for a little while. I create some kind of basic connection with him and sell him on me as a customer, making him want to give me a good deal. To summarize, go to a corporate store, find an employee who you think will actually want to help you, and make yourself extremely likeable. I have received way more money back on my old phones as trade ins, exploited system loopholes and received discounts that I wasn't supposed to be eligible for.
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Amazon. 3 Epic 4Gs at 0.01$ a piece
Try newegg.
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I usually get mine at best buy. I mainly just get it there for the insurance they offer. $10 a month and they cover everything but lost or stolen. Used it about 10 times on my Droid incredible in one year and got it replaced in about 2-5 days. Oh and no deductible on the insurance
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Same here and they price match anywhere
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Try Let's Talk. Not sure what price they have but was very impressed with their customer service.
http://www.letstalk.com/?ilr=1
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Yup lets talk.com is the way to go got mine for $99 after replacing a weak ass nexus s 4g.
Wal-Mart has the Sprint Galaxy S3 for $148, and the htc evo lte for $158.00 with 2 year contract. I got the S3. this phone is awsome. since the lady could not get barely any service in the store, she did not get to update it. so I hope I dont have any problems rooting . about to do that soon. WalMart only had the pebble Blue one in. on T-mobile iit was 199.00 still. dont know why or how they could sell it at theat price? I had gone to sprint store 1st and said if they can beat the 148.00 that walmart was offering, and they could not. I was going to trade my OG Evo 4G to get 60 bux credit. I said OK, Ill be right back then LOL. so If you want to get this phone go to Wal-mart!!! this was in Arlington TX.
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Wal-Mart has the Sprint Galaxy S3 for $148, and the htc evo lte for $158.00 with 2 year contract. I got the S3. this phone is awsome. since the lady could not get barely any service in the store, she did not get to update it. so I hope I dont have any problems rooting . about to do that soon. WalMart only had the pebble Blue one in. on T-mobile iit was 199.00 still. dont know why or how they could sell it at theat price? I had gone to sprint store 1st and said if they can beat the 148.00 that walmart was offering, and they could not. I was going to trade my OG Evo 4G to get 60 bux credit. I said OK, Ill be right back then LOL. so If you want to get this phone go to Wal-mart!!! this was in Arlington TX.
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If you would of gone to best buy, you could of had them price match Walmart, and use the $50 phone freedom gift card you can use towards the purchase of the phone. I paid $95 cause i had a $5 rewards cert also!
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That's where I got mine. Got mine a few days there after release. I came from an epic and I love this phone.
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If you would of gone to best buy, you could of had them price match Walmart, and use the $50 phone freedom gift card you can use towards the purchase of the phone. I paid $95 cause i had a $5 rewards cert also!
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Nice! I wish I would have known that :crying:. when I got my evo 4G I went to best buy. was there for like 2 hours and they try hard to sell you accessories! I vowed to never go back to BB! In and out of walmart in like 15 min. was actually shocked. I still have my evo 4G. I was going to sell it for like 75-100 bux.
I traded In an old iPhone..a blackberry and my bricked beyond repair like so bricked that it wouldnt even get an Odin pop ended up getting my galaxy s3 for 7 dollars
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Nice! I wish I would have known that :crying:. when I got my evo 4G I went to best buy. was there for like 2 hours and they try hard to sell you accessories! I vowed to never go back to BB! In and out of walmart in like 15 min. was actually shocked. I still have my evo 4G. I was going to sell it for like 75-100 bux.
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Same here, I also came from an og evo, but I sold it to my cousin for $100. It was in really good condition though.
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Just stopped in to my local BBM store and talked to the manager of the location and I was told he was blocked by the system trying to sell one yesterday. System has them blocked until tomorrow. Anyone else having issues?
EDIT: thread title should say "until Sunday."
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Same thing for me. Sunday is the release for BB.
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I was told by a non corporate At&t store that they couldn't sell till Sunday either. Went to the closest corporate store and purchased with ease.
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Same thing for me. Sunday is the release for BB.
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Oohhh BB 10 is the new threat to Note 2.. lol
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Oohhh BB 10 is the new threat to Note 2.. lol
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(BB = Best Buy) not Black Berry. Lol.
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All of the local bestbuy stores to me have useless (or carefully uninformative) employees. One store told me it wouldn't be in until black friday, another said to check back monday because that's when the trucks come with new stock.
I would buy from AT&T, but the black tie plan is worth it's weight in myrrh. I'll wait until I can be insured with no deductible.
.^^^^I agree i had a chance to buy one at att store but helf back vecause i didn't want to pay $10 a month on top of $200 deductible. Where BB is $170 one time and no deductible.
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Also, if you're like me, pay monthly. I'll be cancelling my black tie on my Note when I get my Note 2, a damn sight less than 17 months.
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Also, if you're like me, pay monthly. I'll be cancelling my black tie on my Note when I get my Note 2, a damn sight less than 17 months.
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Outright geek squad can be returned at a pro-rated cost so it's really not beneficial to pay monthly if you think about it like that. Right now I'm waiting for them to say my Note 1 is not reparable so that they "junkout" my Note 1 so that I can get my Note 2 at no cost (actually ending up with $100+ in store credit)
Oh and it's not Best Buy that is holding onto the launch til Sunday. We have a hard street date of 11/9 for the ATT Note2 it's just that a bunch of stores did not get them in yet.
This reminds me of the SGS3 release when people did not get their phones for a week past the release date and some 2 weeks.
Same story here in St.Louis...was there and the AT&T Friday morning when they opened at 9am...now the AT&T store has one reserved for me at 11 am Sunday morning when they can sell them...They hadn't even put one out at the AT&T store yet till I asked to see one..BB didn't have any out or in the back...nor any cases for them either..Both places had them inbound along with the new LG one coming out..
Can hardly wait till I have mine home...I've been using a I-phone 4s for the last 3 months (very long story )...and been playing with my Captivate for the last week loading different JB roms...missing the hell out of it when the good wife gave me her upgrade and I jumped at the chance..She was holding out for a new 5...but seeing them she decided she liked her Cappy the way I had it fixed up and can wait till my upgrade hits next August She likes JB
Sorry for the long story...I'm feeling like a kid on the night before Christmas
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Another kid before Christmas here. I went through the warranty dept. My upgrade is May. I got several doa refurb GS II's, so they gave me a One X refurb. I was just going to let that hold me over until the GS IV when I qualify. But its got stuck pixels, the refurb I got to replace it was scratched and on the unrootable update, so I sent it back. Now that the update was rooted I was going to get another. I asked if I could somehow get a new one instead of another refurb. They said sure ... For $99 with early upgrade. Instead I asked for a Note II, on Monday. They said I would have to wait until yesterday, they couldn't pre-order an early upgrade. So I called really early Friday morning so I could get it overnighted and play with it over the weekend. Turns out I got standard shipping instead. So I may have to take Wednesday off work, or a half day.
It all worked out though, I called back to see if Wednesday was really when its expected, and asked again about the $199 price match. I got a $128 credit, so I faired pretty well. But, I may overload the UPS mobile site with all my refreshes until Wednesday.
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Outright geek squad can be returned at a pro-rated cost so it's really not beneficial to pay monthly if you think about it like that. Right now I'm waiting for them to say my Note 1 is not reparable so that they "junkout" my Note 1 so that I can get my Note 2 at no cost (actually ending up with $100+ in store credit)
Oh and it's not Best Buy that is holding onto the launch til Sunday. We have a hard street date of 11/9 for the ATT Note2 it's just that a bunch of stores did not get them in yet.
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The store had them, but couldn't sell them. A friend (Best Buy employee) has told me he couldn't get one for Sprint yet either until Monday, even though it's been out they can't sell it for whatever reason.
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Just checked with my local best buy.....not in stock. And nothing online either. They are saying check back Monday or Wednesday when their truck comes.
checked with New York stores and they are saying the same. I checked local AT&T stores and most of them only seem to have white if they have them at all.
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checked with New York stores and they are saying the same. I checked local AT&T stores and most of them only seem to have white if they have them at all.
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Still none in the DFW area.
The Sprint Note 2 had a street Date of today at Best Buy. The Att could've been sold on Friday, problem is most stores didn't get any Friday.
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checked with New York stores and they are saying the same. I checked local AT&T stores and most of them only seem to have white if they have them at all.
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I picked one up (white) at the AT&T store in Roosevelt Field Mall in Long Island, NY. They had two when I walked in and before I left I overheard
another customer asking for it.
Yeah, a few AT&Ts had it in my area but I want to get it from Best Buy. Silver Rewards gives me 60 days to return with no restocking unlike AT&Ts 14 days and a restocking fee.
It is now showing up as available at all stores in my area for pickup (Buffalo, NY). It looks like att had the weekend head start. I will be going to pick up my preorder as soon as they open today.
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Just got a Brand New GS3 for $.99 with ATT
AT&T has matched Sam's Galaxy S3 BF price of .96 and let me upgrade 2 weeks early. I can provide proof if you need it, I have the email confirmation.This totally beats waiting in those black friday lines. They also said that I can call back when i get my bill and they will remove the 36$ activation fee
I just called at&t and asked them if they could override the upgrade date to make it 2 weeks earlier to take advantage of sam's offer on black friday. But they said that they could not do it, but they could price match it. Now, I am getting the GS3 2 weeks before black friday at the black friday sam's club price without having to wait in those ridiculous lines!
Thanks, I will try this tomorrow
This is how I feel because I got mine for $159.99
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My god...I got mine for 99$
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very nice!!! shouldve added a line and bought a second though.
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Just got a Brand New GS3 for $.99 with ATT
AT&T has matched Sam's Galaxy S3 BF price of .96 and let me upgrade 2 weeks early. I can provide proof if you need it, I have the email confirmation.This totally beats waiting in those black friday lines. They also said that I can call back when i get my bill and they will remove the 36$ activation fee
I just called at&t and asked them if they could override the upgrade date to make it 2 weeks earlier to take advantage of sam's offer on black friday. But they said that they could not do it, but they could price match it. Now, I am getting the GS3 2 weeks before black friday at the black friday sam's club price without having to wait in those ridiculous lines!
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Did you ask to speak to someone in a particular department (retentions, etc) or did you just start with the person who answered when you called? I want to be sure I direct the request to the same place so I can get this deal too.
Thanks!
damn. i paid full subsidized price for my wife and mine. baaaaah. this was almost 2 months ago though, so there ain't no way i'm gettin' anything back. thankfully, i sold my unlocked iphone 4 for $300 to help offset the costs.
syedhussain said:
Just got a Brand New GS3 for $.99 with ATT
AT&T has matched Sam's Galaxy S3 BF price of .96 and let me upgrade 2 weeks early. I can provide proof if you need it, I have the email confirmation.This totally beats waiting in those black friday lines. They also said that I can call back when i get my bill and they will remove the 36$ activation fee
I just called at&t and asked them if they could override the upgrade date to make it 2 weeks earlier to take advantage of sam's offer on black friday. But they said that they could not do it, but they could price match it. Now, I am getting the GS3 2 weeks before black friday at the black friday sam's club price without having to wait in those ridiculous lines!
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Woohoo! I just called AT&T and they refunded me the price for the Gs3 I purchased a week ago. Sweet! Thanks for the heads up!
So does ATT PM? EverytimeI talk to them, they say we dont do that.. Wife needs a new phone.. I'll try later today.
The best I got for my S3 was, $200 credit, with upgrade fee reversed, and 2 year contract removed. Of course this came with a cost, I had to battle with ATT for a week about my unlimited data,
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This is how I feel because I got mine for $159.99
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If you wait for 6-7 months then you will get the note 2 for that price. Price drops are normal with Android devices
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I just tried and got shot down, they told me they do not price match.
Went to the retail store as well and got shot down there as well.
They say they wont price match but sometimes can just get them to credit the difference to your bill
Confirmed! I got the price match via 611.
I JUST got off of the phone getting the price match. So here are the details:
I've been an AT&T customer since before the Cingular merger, but have been off contract for about 2 months. (Last contract renewal w/ phone upgrade was Sept 2010)
I called into 611, and the upgrade sales department. I told my CSR Justyn (female) that I was off contract, and interested in the GS3, but I was not sure I wanted to go back on contract for a $200 phone. I asked if AT&T would be willing to price match an offer from Sam's club for the GS3 w/ a 2 year contract. She asked how much, I replied with $0.96. (Note: I did not mention that this was a Black Friday special) After verifying that my account was in fact out of contract, she put me on hold to ask her manager if this price match could be confirmed.
She came back from hold, said that her manager would match that price to start a new 2 year contract. I also made sure to get an email documenting that I would keep my grandfathered unlimited data plan.
Final cost: 16GB GS3 - $0.96 + $10.36 S,H,&T = $11.32 total.
If you call in, are polite, but with hesitation to upgrade (and being available to do so) I don't see a problem for anyone else trying to get this for themselves.
(BTW - My GF just got a GS3 a few days ago, and is pissed that she paid $199. She is going to see about getting a refund from T-Mob tonight. )
Awesome, just got off the phone with ATT customer care (third time`s the charm), they credited $200 to my account as a price match from bestbuy (BB price matched me for Amazon`s $99) .
Another success story, just got off the phone. Got a very nice rep, was super polite, said i was a long time customer (even though it only showed i was since January) and got my phone fully refunded! Big thanks to the OP for this!
Well I had mixed success. I followed the approach of nae10135 and I ended up getting them for $50 each, which is what I had been hoping to pay before I saw these extreme deals for BF. I called, spoke to a guy who said $50 each, I said I needed to think about it and he said he'd put a note on my account. I called back an hour later and the lady I spoke to said that they were $300 each (!) and that she didn't have to honor the note on the account. I called back again right away and told the guy I was confused about whether they would honor the offer from the first guy and he was like "Of course we will, it's already noted on your account."
Took longer than I expected but they should be here early next week. When we were almost done I thought to ask if a local AT&T store would have honored the price from the first guy and he said that they might or might not, but I kind of wish I'd gone by to check so I didn't have to wait for shipping etc. Oh well.
The most important thing to me was getting it for a decent price and not having to lose my data plan, which I would have given up if I'd actually gone to Sams.
Nice. Yeah att has been very generous lately. For me for instance. I renewed my contract and got the S3 in July for 150. Went in in September and upgraded my same contract again and got the hox for 99.00 to sell. Then just last week they let me upgrade the same contract again and sold me another gs 3 for 199. So I got three phones at the subsidised price in like 4 months time
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Hey guys. OP here... My galaxy s3 ARRIVES TOMORROW!!!!! So excited
ALSO: YOU CAN GET ATT TO WAIVE ACTIVATION FEE AND SHIPPING FEE AS THEY DID FOR ME! I PAID A TOTAL OF $1.05 FOR EVERYTHING
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Well I had mixed success. I followed the approach of nae10135 and I ended up getting them for $50 each, which is what I had been hoping to pay before I saw these extreme deals for BF. I called, spoke to a guy who said $50 each, I said I needed to think about it and he said he'd put a note on my account. I called back an hour later and the lady I spoke to said that they were $300 each (!) and that she didn't have to honor the note on the account. I called back again right away and told the guy I was confused about whether they would honor the offer from the first guy and he was like "Of course we will, it's already noted on your account."
Took longer than I expected but they should be here early next week. When we were almost done I thought to ask if a local AT&T store would have honored the price from the first guy and he said that they might or might not, but I kind of wish I'd gone by to check so I didn't have to wait for shipping etc. Oh well.
The most important thing to me was getting it for a decent price and not having to lose my data plan, which I would have given up if I'd actually gone to Sams.
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I bought my s3 almost a month ago for the full subsidized price of $199. Felling inspired by this post I called att and got a $99 credit on my account. So not as great as $.99 but an improvement from where I'm sitting.
with new contract.
UPDATE: also works for upgrade!
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with new contract.
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This won't work for those of us trying to upgrade, however.
But I may try to print this out and take it to Best Buy and see if they will price match (not knowing that it's only for new customers).
Yes, Walmart usually is between $50 and $100 cheaper. I tried to upgrade to the Note II through them, but when I added it as an upgrade the system told me the quantity in my cart was more than allowed and kinda froze there. I don't know if it was a system glitch or what. But I assume you'll eventually be able to upgrade through Walmart.
Note, last time I upgraded through Walmart (to Galaxy S II) my data plan got removed all together. I had to call AT&T to get my grandfathered unlimited Data back. My recommendation is to call AT&T after any upgrade and make sure your plan has not changed. Upon upgrading to the not II through AT&T my $5 for 200 text messaging plan (no longer offered) was removed and I had not text capability at all. I had to call them get it back.
I purchased the Note 2 from ATT on Friday. Today I see that Walmart has it for 250, so I chatted with the ATT rep and got them to price match it and they will credit me $50 back into my account and got the activation fee waved as well. Only been with ATT for 2 days and I already like their CS. Good bye Sprint, you wont be missed
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I purchased the Note 2 from ATT on Friday. Today I see that Walmart has it for 250, so I chatted with the ATT rep and got them to price match it and they will credit me $50 back into my account and got the activation fee waved as well. Only been with ATT for 2 days and I already like their CS. Good bye Sprint, you wont be missed
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Scratch that. Called CS and they did it for me. Took $50 off the bill and waived activation. Purchased phone originally at local corporate store.
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^^ oh wow. I'll have to try giving ATT a call tomorrow to see if i can get them to price match it, as i just bought my note2 a few days ago.
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This won't work for those of us trying to upgrade, however.
But I may try to print this out and take it to Best Buy and see if they will price match (not knowing that it's only for new customers).
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Let us know if they price match, thanks and good luck.
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Let us know if they price match, thanks and good luck.
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gonna try the price match now, will report later to see if this works
Many people are having success getting customer service to match $199.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1976429
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I'm happy with $50 off lol
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I'm happy with $50 off lol
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yeah. i getting tired of calling att to save that 50$. called 3 times, no deal at 199$ !
Called CS to get $50.00 credit to my account but before she did, she gave me a big stink on how ATT does not match competitors prices and that was a one time
courtesy credit.
I didn't get that. It's like all businesses. They don't like to give much away lol
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I bought mine last Friday adding a new line and paid 300.00 think I will give them a call and see if I can get something back since I have both notes hopefully I can get the 100.00 and activation fee back...
Ordered mine yesterday, be polite, tried 3 times, the last one I talked to tried to accomodate me, and I even requested the upgrade fee waived. And by the way, I am not yet due for an upgrade. so Early upgrade, note 2, and waived fee. I tried to have them match the S3 on Bestbuy and Samsclub, they said no and just go to the store on Black Friday.
I tried to price match T-Mobile at $49.00, called twice, second time to premier, no deal.
Got it for $199.00 on a 3rd call very easily, just said: "Look, the reason I'm calling is, a couple of friends on this enthusiast forum got a great deal for $199, what can you do for me?" She said she would talk to her manager, did it, and they accepted. Without me asking, they waivered activation fee and gave me free premier shipping, but it should be shipping on Tuesday only (asked for the White Note II).
So I'm very happy with this, can't wait. Hopefully before thanksgiving I'll have my new phone!
Got note 2 white 249 $ best buy mobile with code. Called att premium and they would not match this price. So they loose the sale and good will.
Best buy mobile ebay had the discount best buy mobile from site didn't. Only hitch I had to call for a closer store pickup.
They had an open box phone waiting at the store which I declined. To swap it for an unopened box they had to return the phone and discount the new one.
Bottom line they can do whatever they want only if they want to and you're nice to them.
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Just ordered one from Walmart myself. $250 plus they are giving a $100 walmart gift card now, so effectively $150
Good price the big screen)