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Returning my touch!

But for different reasons I got so anxious I went and got it at best buy for $199. Well I found out MA has recently implemented tax on the retail price so I had to pay $480 for 2 phones + $72 for 2 activation's. I am so returning these back to best buy and picking them up from Amazon next week when activation's are free. So instead of spending like $550 it will be $300 straight up... so much better.

Dulanic said:
But for different reasons I got so anxious I went and got it at best buy for $199. Well I found out MA has recently implemented tax on the retail price so I had to pay $480 for 2 phones + $72 for 2 activation's. I am so returning these back to best buy and picking them up from Amazon next week when activation's are free. So instead of spending like $550 it will be $300 straight up... so much better.
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LMAO, I was expecting someone to tell me why the E4GTouch sucked but you just want a better deal lol. I should have expected this kind of post because the Epic 4G Touch is so good, even Apple fanatics can't knock it. LOL

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LMAO, I was expecting someone to tell me why the E4GTouch sucked but you just want a better deal lol. I should have expected this kind of post because the Epic 4G Touch is so good, even Apple fanatics can't knock it. LOL
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Not a chance, I got to play with the phone for a few hours at least

Pulled the trigger early as well and bought the phone at best buy. I couldn't wait on LetsTalk anymore lol. They were able to price match with Walmart so all in all it ended up being $201. Still debating if i should return

So u guys would totally recommend the aha2?....I'm coming.from the EVO 3d.....and man this phone looks gorgeous....its very hard to resist....LOL.....so lemme know what u guys think
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reverepats said:
So u guys would totally recommend the aha2?....I'm coming.from the EVO 3d.....and man this phone looks gorgeous....its very hard to resist....LOL.....so lemme know what u guys think
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Whats up dude!!! Man DEF go NOW and buy this phone!!!! It BLOWS THE DOORS OFF the Evo 3D!! I have NEVER had a phone better then this beast man!!! Its just UNREAL! And only gonna get even better with root!

For you 2 massholes just avoid retail... Go online. 45 a phone in tax is a ****ing scam.
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krazyflipj said:
Pulled the trigger early as well and bought the phone at best buy. I couldn't wait on LetsTalk anymore lol. They were able to price match with Walmart so all in all it ended up being $201. Still debating if i should return
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In you case that's not too bad. Living in ma... Online only for me. 200 + 38 activation + 45 or so in tax... What a scam.

aaron130 said:
Whats up dude!!! Man DEF go NOW and buy this phone!!!! It BLOWS THE DOORS OFF the Evo 3D!! I have NEVER had a phone better then this beast man!!! Its just UNREAL! And only gonna get even better with root!
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Ca'mon.....LOL.....really that food huh?....I was just in there but then left right away....haha I'm actually nervous about doing it....man u wouldn't even know that I'm 30 heats old LOL.....I dunno
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I was able to turn in my old epic and put it towards the epic 4g. I think i payed $113 for my new epic at BB well plus the fee that the money hungry folks at sprint require for upgrading...
Oh, and this phone is the nicest phone i have ever had the chance to put my hands on so far, besides the fact that the sammy wall charger doesnt work. Highly recommend this phone to anyone in the market!

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I was able to turn in my old epic and put it towards the epic 4g. I think i payed $113 for my new epic at BB well plus the fee that the money hungry folks at sprint require for upgrading...
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I keep hearing about a fee... Idk what your talking about but ive never payed a fee to upgrade my phone.. And ive bought all of them at bb..
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you STILL have to pay the $36 dollar activiation upgrade fee. YOU WILL NOT pay it at the store it goes on YOUR FIRST BILL Through Sprint Directly., they are not waving the fees anymore.
The Rep at sprint told it doesnt matter where you buy it from online or Retail at Best Buy, the HIDDEN fee will show up on your next Bill regardless he said, its the new SPRINT WAY!! damn money hungry hawks.
I Paid $199 plus $36 and change for my taxes. out the store the phone was only $236 and change. but my new Bill Statement is where it HURTS.
the new $10 dollar fee is bull****. and now im going to have to pay $42 more dollars on my first new bill for the Upgrade Fee.
over $100 dollars for one moth bill is going to HURT me this month. Thank god I found a way to make extra money that will pay for all this so It as if Im not spending my money for this. LOL gotta love the benefits when you get them.

Yeah, the 36 bucks will be on the next bill.
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Yeah, the 36 bucks will be on the next bill.
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That sucks..
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where do you guys buy your phones?

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 =]
Sent from the future.

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 ¢1 n a $100 dollar Amazon gift card back.
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I bought my Epic 4g Touch at my local corporate sprint store. I have found that corporate stores usually have the ability to give you deals and exploit little loopholes that are sort of floating around in the sprint corporate system that non-corporate stores/contractors do not have access to.
Since switching to sprint I have had an Evo 4g, Nexus S 4g and currently the epic 4g touch. Despite being with sprint for less than 2 years I have paid below the rebate price for each of these phones. Each time I have gone into my local corporate store, I find the nerdiest guy in the store (basically, I look for someone like me) and then I nerd out with him over smart phones and tech stuff for a little while. I create some kind of basic connection with him and sell him on me as a customer, making him want to give me a good deal. To summarize, go to a corporate store, find an employee who you think will actually want to help you, and make yourself extremely likeable. I have received way more money back on my old phones as trade ins, exploited system loopholes and received discounts that I wasn't supposed to be eligible for.
-Greg
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Amazon. 3 Epic 4Gs at 0.01$ a piece

Try newegg.

Sephirothvfc said:
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.

Looking to upgrade

So Ive had my Evo for almost two years and my update is not due till August 1st. Is there a way to get my upgrade moved up? What would be the most money efficient way for me to upgrade? And how much would Sprint give me for my OG Evo in store credits?
Thanks in advance!
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They most likely will not move your update up. But what they offered me was to pay the remainder of my contract which in your case would be like ~$25 since there is only a couple months left. That would be your best bet. I would expect them to give you less than $40 to buy your EVO back since they gave me only $70 for my gf 3 month old EVO design. But that would definately pay the remainder of your contract to upgrade and end up not costing you anything
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So that means if I go to sprint and give them my OG Evo(Perfect conditions), lets say I get $75, that would pay for getting my contract moved up and the activiation of the Evo LTE?
Wouldnt I have to pay $200 to renew the contract?
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If you call you can buy out your contract at a pro rated rate, Sprint is buying Evo for $90 and they may even give you an extra rebate depending on the phone you buy.
My buddy just did this. He got to buy out for 75 bucks sold the evo for 90 bought the evo lte for 150 and got a 50 dollar rebate from best buy. You do the math, if you are sticking around this is the way to do it!
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So he got it for $85+activation?
Doesnt Sprint give like a discount for renewing the contract or something? I tought it was going to be a little bit cheaper.

There is no price to renew contract . Just price of the phone. The will be no activation since your line is already active. If they are buying the og EVO for $90, they royally f***ed me on the design
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God i am so confused
Can you guys explain this to me further?
Thanks in advance
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So is it $0 or $85? Im still confused on how upgrading works, its my first time upgrading.

got my new S3 @ wal-mart of all places $148.00

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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fgcchevy said:
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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tandynor said:
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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Best buy trade in

I was shocked at this price
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You can get like $280-$350 (maybe more if you include accessories) with a good ESN. Of course, eBay charges a little fee though -__-

Joe0113 said:
You can get like $280-$350 (maybe more if you include accessories) with a good ESN. Of course, eBay charges a little fee though -__-
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I have mine on eBay now its at $99.99 it is in perfect condition and has tons of accessories, people better start bidding Lol, it has about 4 days left though. I saw that price on best buy though which is very good compared to every other trade in place. Sprint said they would give me $106 for a mint S3 ummm no thanks. The thing is that I'm buying this phone, either the S4 or the One, off contract full price so best buy always charges like $150 more for off contract phones. Its not worth it.
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GiantJay said:
I have mine on eBay now its at $99.99 it is in perfect condition and has tons of accessories, people better start bidding Lol, it has about 4 days left though. I saw that price on best buy though which is very good compared to every other trade in place. Sprint said they would give me $106 for a mint S3 ummm no thanks. The thing is that I'm buying this phone, either the S4 or the One, off contract full price so best buy always charges like $150 more for off contract phones. Its not worth it.
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With my selling experience on eBay like 85% of the bids come within a couple hours of the end time. Trust me you'll get $300+. PM me and let me know what you get! I'm thinking of doing the same and paying the difference to get the S4 with no upgrade. I have a ton of accessories too.

Joe0113 said:
With my selling experience on eBay like 85% of the bids come within a couple hours of the end time. Trust me you'll get $300+. PM me and let me know what you get! I'm thinking of doing the same and paying the difference to get the S4 with no upgrade. I have a ton of accessories too.
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Will do, and thats what i was thinking about a bunch of bids coming in the end. Also I figure tomorrow is payday for some people. I better get $300 lol AT LEAST! I have 3 cases 3 oem batteries and one extended battery and two chargers and a S3 with the box in perfect condition. Thats why when I went into Sprint and the guy was saying" Just pay the early upgrade for $100 and give us your old S3 we will knock $106 off the upgrade price which is $450. lol I asked if he was smoking crack and then said he77 no. Lol. It was funny and sad to listen to them try and "convince" me to do a early upgrade.

GiantJay said:
I have mine on eBay now its at $99.99 it is in perfect condition and has tons of accessories, people better start bidding Lol, it has about 4 days left though. I saw that price on best buy though which is very good compared to every other trade in place. Sprint said they would give me $106 for a mint S3 ummm no thanks. The thing is that I'm buying this phone, either the S4 or the One, off contract full price so best buy always charges like $150 more for off contract phones. Its not worth it.
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Could that $106 go towards and upgrade ?
Either way I would be better off selling my gs3 for $250 minimum and that would cover the upgrade fee.
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daniel4653 said:
Could that $106 go towards and upgrade ?
Either way I would be better off selling my gs3 for $250 minimum and that would cover the upgrade fee.
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So this is how it works. If you are eligible for a upgrade or buy the phone off contract, you get to keep your device. If you want to upgrade early it is whatever price they say depending on where you are in your contract and they take the device you are using and give you some ungodly amount for it, whatever they give you for the phone goes toward the upgrade. Which is a ripoff.
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You can get like $280-$350 (maybe more if you include accessories) with a good ESN. Of course, eBay charges a little fee though -__-
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Wow that's what I'm talking about. Hmmm I may have go get it this weekend
I love the 90s. Good times.

GiantJay said:
So this is how it works. If you are eligible for a upgrade or buy the phone off contract, you get to keep your device. If you want to upgrade early it is whatever price they say depending on where you are in your contract and they take the device you are using and give you some ungodly amount for it, whatever they give you for the phone goes toward the upgrade. Which is a ripoff.
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Okay thanks for the info. I never knew how their trade in program worked since I had never used it before.
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Okay thanks for the info. I never knew how their trade in program worked since I had never used it before.
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There early upgrade program sucks !!! Rip off !!!! I've heard a few people avoid having to sell there phone to sprint and just paying the upgrade fee. But they went through customer service .
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Glad I am waiting until my actual upgrade.
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If you would have checked Thursday 4/25/13 best buy was giving $350 for the phone as trade in value. I had buy back on my phone which guarantees me $280 right now. But because the trade in value was higher than buy back, I would have received $376.50 if I traded my phone in. I was stupid not to do it. I still get $280 but that's almost $100 difference lol
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Best buy offered me $330 in person
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I know where I'm going after work
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If you want to do the early upgrade what you need to do is find an old phone from
Sprint with a clean esn and trade it in. Then you can pay the early upgrade fee and get phone with subsidize price. Then sell the phone that your S3 on ebay or craiglist foe 300+ and that way you'll save some money. For the early upgrade fee they just need a phone to be trade in but it doesn't has to be your current phone it just need be a clean esn phone. You trade in like an old blackberry or the first Evo or it could even be feature phone like Moto Rzor but with clean esn.

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If you want to do the early upgrade what you need to do is find an old phone from
Sprint with a clean esn and trade it in. Then you can pay the early upgrade fee and get phone with subsidize price. Then sell the phone that your S3 on ebay or craiglist foe 300+ and that way you'll save some money. For the early upgrade fee they just need a phone to be trade in but it doesn't has to be your current phone it just need be a clean esn phone. You trade in like an old blackberry or the first Evo or it could even be feature phone like Moto Rzor but with clean esn.
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Yes this is what I was going to do but it's not worth it to buy the early upgrade. I'm just going to buy the phone off contract.
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All together how much would doing the early upgrade cost? Cause buying off contract is like $750+, obviously if it's cheaper than that, then doing the early upgrade would be wroth it!

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I have mine on eBay now its at $99.99 it is in perfect condition and has tons of accessories, people better start bidding Lol, it has about 4 days left though. I saw that price on best buy though which is very good compared to every other trade in place. Sprint said they would give me $106 for a mint S3 ummm no thanks. The thing is that I'm buying this phone, either the S4 or the One, off contract full price so best buy always charges like $150 more for off contract phones. Its not worth it.
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From browsing the HTC One forum you can ask bestbuy to price match the retail price for the carrier. Some say it worked, others said it didn't. Can't hurt to try.

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From browsing the HTC One forum you can ask bestbuy to price match the retail price for the carrier. Some say it worked, others said it didn't. Can't hurt to try.
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I already asked they said they price match everything but phones. I'm just selling mine and buying new off amazon, they have the same prices as Sprint.
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If you want to do the early upgrade what you need to do is find an old phone from
Sprint with a clean esn and trade it in. Then you can pay the early upgrade fee and get phone with subsidize price. Then sell the phone that your S3 on ebay or craiglist foe 300+ and that way you'll save some money. For the early upgrade fee they just need a phone to be trade in but it doesn't has to be your current phone it just need be a clean esn phone. You trade in like an old blackberry or the first Evo or it could even be feature phone like Moto Rzor but with clean esn.
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How much is early upgrade?
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