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Epic 4g Touch free with new contract
I know most of us already have a phone under contract, but I thought it was worth posting anyway. Free e4gt from bestbuy.

Sigh... This must mean the Galaxy S III is right around the corner... I love this phone, but hate the thought of being "stuck" for another eighteen months before I can upgrade to the next big thing!
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EmperorX said:
Sigh... This must mean the Galaxy S III is right around the corner... I love this phone, but hate the thought of being "stuck" for another eighteen months before I can upgrade to the next big thing!
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Your not stuck it will just cost about 400 to 450 to get it ...when time comes I will sell epic touch already sold 3d and use it to get it
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Looks like my Nexus is getting replaced by a new beast soon...
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Epix4G said:
Your not stuck it will just cost about 400 to 450 to get it ...when time comes I will sell epic touch already sold 3d and use it to get it
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You don't think it will be higher than that? Sigh I'm trying to buy a house with my woman right now so we are in "super saving" mode... Considering I got paid more for my HTC evo shift than I paid for this phone in amazon wireless, I feel pretty good about it.
I've never bought a phone off contract. The up front prices piss me off too much. I like the illusion of savings.
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EmperorX said:
You don't think it will be higher than that? Sigh I'm trying to buy a house with my woman right now so we are in "super saving" mode... Considering I got paid more for my HTC evo shift than I paid for this phone in amazon wireless, I feel pretty good about it.
I've never bought a phone off contract. The up front prices piss me off too much. I like the illusion of savings.
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By then sprint will give u like 100 off new phone sell your epic touch and put it towards it should cost you out of pocket no more than 200
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EmperorX said:
You don't think it will be higher than that? Sigh I'm trying to buy a house with my woman right now so we are in "super saving" mode... Considering I got paid more for my HTC evo shift than I paid for this phone in amazon wireless, I feel pretty good about it.
I've never bought a phone off contract. The up front prices piss me off too much. I like the illusion of savings.
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I think he's talking the craigslist ebay route... I've bought many phones off contract but never from the carrier. The carrier inflates the price on purpose for off contract phones to make it look like you are getting a killer deal by signing a new contract and getting the discount.

It cost me a little more but I would rather be out of contact...I can go to any carrier especially since sprint is screwing everyone on discounts....I will sell epic touch for 250 - 300 .... That means I will pay 300 for sgs3 & not be in contact ....gives me more options to upgrade earlier.....I can choose any bad ass phone they come out with....
when you buy a phone overseas you pay full price, but you choose any carrier you want....and any phone you want as they are gsm .... Really nice when you want to switch phones you take out Sim card and put it in another phone and it's on ... no stupid prorated bills and such
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epdp14 said:
Epic 4g Touch free with new contract
I know most of us already have a phone under contract, but I thought it was worth posting anyway. Free e4gt from bestbuy.
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crud.. i just signed a new contract last week.. coulda gotten it for free?!?!?!?!?! oh well ... story of my life..

TeleFragger said:
crud.. i just signed a new contract last week.. coulda gotten it for free?!?!?!?!?! oh well ... story of my life..
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Don't you have 14 days to return?
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New Sprint Buy Out Plan

I just got off the phone with a rep dealing with bla bla bla on my phone then i started a convo about the SG3. I told him i am no where near due for a upgrade but i would love to get the phone he stated that sprint has a new buy out program. just to sum it up, sprint would buy my phone back from me ET4G ( in perfect condition)for 300 bucks for right now he said value might drop alil when SG3 release but it should be close to that. I think sprint is pretty cool for sprint to buy back my close to what i want ( unless someone on CL would pay more ) to help me get a new phone without upgrading. hope this helps anyone

Late by 6 months or so.
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ubigred said:
Late by 6 months or so.
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really i thought sprints only plan was to buy your way out of the contract. smh my mom always did say i was special

On sprint's website the buy out value for our phone is 105$...
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oscarthegrouch said:
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The bb bold with no camera is 10 bucks more.....

locoboi187 said:
On sprint's website the buy out value for our phone is 105$...
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No way I would let sprint have this phone for only that amount. What a rip off
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AJC9000 said:
The bb bold with no camera is 10 bucks more.....
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Lol wow smh
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Sprint has had Buyback for years now, they just recently started pushing it harder.
I can safely say that the buyback value on the E4GT is not $300, it's $105 like a previous poster said.

You can trade it in at THE SHACK and get $300: http://radioshack.cexchange.com/online/home/index.rails

There may be a deal for it, close to $300, when the sg3 drops.. I remember when the evo3d came out, they had a deal where they bought back your original evo for $150, which was a pretty good for that old of a phone.

Nice that radio shack trade in the e4gt is 300 I will take that offer n pay retail price for the sg3 when it comes out
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qubanaso said:
Nice that radio shack trade in the e4gt is 300 I will take that offer n pay retail price for the sg3 when it comes out
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I wouldn't count on getting anything close to that once the sg3 is out, or even the evo lte for that matter. Once this phone is not top of the line that price will plummet.

Gordon Ramsay said:
I wouldn't count on getting anything close to that once the sg3 is out, or even the evo lte for that matter. Once this phone is not top of the line that price will plummet.
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The price is already plummeting because of how slow and behind the times sprint is. I'm soon to sell my e4gt and swap to a gsm model and it looks like the gsm versions go for about 100 more. Kind of sad.

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That's not the program they're talking about. That is the buyback value for recycling the old device. Not the amount to pay to get out of a contract.
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Would sprint buy the epic 4g?

I just realized I qualified for an upgrade since april. I was thinking it was in augest.
Anyway, I wanna buy a new phone. I really don't want to sell my epic because I love it and I just want a new phone to keep on the side and not to actually use. So my number would stay on the epic and I would get a newer phone for my music and games and stuff. I don't think anyone would do this but I am lol I need my keyboard.
So I was thinking gs3 or epic touch.
But just incase I have to pay an amount of money that I don't have and I would have to give up my epic to get a newer phone would sprint buy this phone from me for a reasonable price? Like let's say $100?
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I think Sprint will give your around $30-35 dollars.
You will get much more if you sell it online or some such.
You can use your upgrade to get a new Phone, probably around $200, and just not activate it, and then you can keep using your Epic.
Thanks said, if your Epic is in working order, and has a clean ESN, I would give you $100 for it.

DCRocks said:
I think Sprint will give your around $30-35 dollars.
You will get much more if you sell it online or some such.
You can use your upgrade to get a new Phone, probably around $200, and just not activate it, and then you can keep using your Epic.
Thanks said, if your Epic is in working order, and has a clean ESN, I would give you $100 for it.
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Ya I was thinking I may sell it online. And I also have an extra battery for it. Its the same as its stock one.
I'm going to go to the sprint store sometime soon and see what phones they have there and what they offer.
if I have to sell my phone to get a new one I may sell it for about $100. Ill let you know if you want it. And yes its in perfect condition I don't remember dropping it not even once and everything works.
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You can't use an upgrade and not activate the phone.
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They give you $50 (at least they did for my mom's) and recycle it.... bad ESN or not, it is all the same...
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
They give you $50 (at least they did for my mom's) and recycle it.... bad ESN or not, it is all the same...
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Depends on condition as well I know I can get 45$ for mine that's with the small dent on the bottom and surface scratch marks.
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xjayman said:
You can't use an upgrade and not activate the phone.
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seriously? They won't just give me it in a box and let me "activate" it later?
MДЯCЦSДИT said:
They give you $50 (at least they did for my mom's) and recycle it.... bad ESN or not, it is all the same...
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And that's not worth selling it. Ill try and sell it online if I have to.
The GSIII is looking really nice in blue lol.
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lilajrestnom said:
seriously? They won't just give me it in a box and let me "activate" it later?
And that's not worth selling it. Ill try and sell it online if I have to.
The GSIII is looking really nice in blue lol.
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The upgrade discount is only valid if it's activated on a renewed contract. No activation means no discount.
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Zeinzu said:
The upgrade discount is only valid if it's activated on a renewed contract. No activation means no discount.
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So I would have to activate then switch phones? That should work, right?
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After you activate a new/upgrade account, that phone must remain active on that line for 6 months. (might be 3) This is why I use GVoice. I have 4 lines and me and wifey trade up renewals with 2 of the lines.
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
They give you $50 (at least they did for my mom's) and recycle it.... bad ESN or not, it is all the same...
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Sprint doesn't allow buy backs of any of their devices which have dirty ESNS. Corporate retail employees who do this sort of thing can and will be subjected to disciplinary action of up to and including termination of employment. I know this personally from seeing about half a dozen of employees in our DM's market promoted to customer. You have to remember people that Sprint has a report on just about anything you do in RMS and are able to drill down to employee ID level.

They wanted to give me $60 for mine when I upgraded, but I decided to keep it and try selling it for a little more private.
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BubZX said:
They wanted to give me $60 for mine when I upgraded, but I decided to keep it and try selling it for a little more private.
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dude on craigslist i've seen them go for 150+

XxLostSoulxX said:
dude on craigslist i've seen them go for 150+
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Me too....in 2010
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Just got a text from Sprint stating they will give me $56 for my Epic..
I laughed!
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xjayman said:
Me too....in 2010
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My brother just got 120 for his... without any accessories or a charger...

flastnoles11 said:
My brother just got 120 for his... without any accessories or a charger...
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That's fair...100 to 125 I think is fair for both parties
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xjayman said:
Me too....in 2010
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haha no over here in Dallas their selling them for around 300$ and actually selling them for those prices so i'd day they can go around for those prices.

XxLostSoulxX said:
haha no over here in Dallas their selling them for around 300$ and actually selling them for those prices so i'd day they can go around for those prices.
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Maybe I'll ship you mine to sell ....I've been upgrade eligible since may but I like my phone. When I do upgrade I'm keeping my epic as backup instead of tep. if anything happens to new phone after first year I'll break this bad boy back out.
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xjayman said:
Maybe I'll ship you mine to sell ....I've been upgrade eligible since may but I like my phone. When I do upgrade I'm keeping my epic as backup instead of tep. if anything happens to new phone after first year I'll break this bad boy back out.
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That's exactly why I don't wanna have to sell this phone I just love it lol.
But seriously if I get an upgrade I have to use that phone for the first 6 months??? I can't believe that cuz they can't just tie me to one phone. What if I bought another phone I'm not allowed to use that?
I was really wanting to buy the g23. But I think the epic touch wouldn't be bad either. And its 100 dollars cheaper. But its a shame that both the epic and the epic touch cost 100 with a new contract lol.
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Walmart deal coming up.

I just got off the phone with T-Mobile and the rep told me Walmart is cooking up a big promotion for the S3. I called to upgrade one of my lines and asked him if they can match or beat the WireflyFriends price and he said unfortunately no but Walmart is getting ready for a big S3 promotion. Fingers crossed that it beats the WireFly sale price.

gibi310 said:
I just got off the phone with T-Mobile and the rep told me Walmart is cooking up a big promotion for the S3. I called to upgrade one of my lines and asked him if they can match or beat the WireflyFriends price and he said unfortunately no but Walmart is getting ready for a big S3 promotion. Fingers crossed that it beats the WireFly sale price.
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I already got $50 back from CarToys because of Walmart's S3 price. I'm hoping they drop it farther so I can get more, but I'm not sure how much time I have left from CarToys to do that.

gibi310 said:
I just got off the phone with T-Mobile and the rep told me Walmart is cooking up a big promotion for the S3. I called to upgrade one of my lines and asked him if they can match or beat the WireflyFriends price and he said unfortunately no but Walmart is getting ready for a big S3 promotion. Fingers crossed that it beats the WireFly sale price.
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dont know about wirefly but I bought mine from Costco for 179.99$

I don't know what the other sales are. But tmobile can beat em. Especially if your contract is about up.
Got mine for $79.99!
Ask for retentions, or at least customer loyalty. But retentions can do even better. Google tmobile retentions deals galaxy s3 for more info.
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Did you just tell the automated machine retention? I didn't know that I'll give it a try.

I did try that but still got customer loyalty. I loyaly offered me $279 for phone, $150 credit bringing it to $129. Also got. $20 5gb data plan and a $10 per month bill credit every month for 24 months. I told her I wasn't ready to pull the trigger yet and would call back. Asked her if she made notes on my acct for all she offered which she did.
Called back next day and this time made sure I got on with a retention specialist. They saw notes on my account so honored all the offers. I said I didn't think I could accept because it still meant I had to initially pay $279 which I couldn't afford to do. He did some looking at something and said he could bring it down to $229. I asked if I would still get the $150 credit which I did. I told him I still didn't have that much to spend initially and he said he could apply the cost to my next bill, so after credit I would only have to pay the $79 on my next bill!
Oh and I also got free overnight shipping!!!
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Wow, that's amazing. Been with them for almost ten years with multiple lines, hopefuy that helps me out. Thanx for the info, I will be glad paying 150. Guess I will give this tomorrow a try.

Good luck! Its definately worth trying.
I've been with them since the Voicestream days, over 10 or 11 years ago. That definately helps, especially if they think you are gona cancel.
The other thing is my contract had already expired which gives max leverage.
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Again with the "cooking". Nobody's cooking anything. Going to have to start monitoring threads and getting on folks for that one. Nope nothing better to do and yes it sounds that ridiculous.
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volcomguyaz said:
Again with the "cooking". Nobody's cooking anything. Going to have to start monitoring threads and getting on folks for that one. Nope nothing better to do and yes it sounds that ridiculous.
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????????
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volcomguyaz said:
Again with the "cooking". Nobody's cooking anything. Going to have to start monitoring threads and getting on folks for that one. Nope nothing better to do and yes it sounds that ridiculous.
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Simple as not reading. If you have better things to do why are you here? Just giving people a heads up.

DocHoliday77 said:
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He refers to the op stating walmart is "cooking" up a big sale
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anyone know when this awesome deal is coming? because they are currently the most expensive from what I've checked online.
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ky0nkyon said:
they are currently the most expensive from what I've checked online.
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Walmart? There selling it for $198 I think costco is cheapest @ $179
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Five0nIt said:
Walmart? There selling it for $198 I think costco is cheapest @ $179
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i just checked wireless Walmart and it's $300 for a new account. maybe location has an effect?
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ky0nkyon said:
i just checked wireless Walmart and it's $300 for a new account. maybe location has an effect?
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Gotta go in the store man. Online I think it says its $249.99 with upgrade. But when you walk in its listed for $198
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Five0nIt said:
Gotta go in the store man. Online I think it says its $249.99 with upgrade. But when you walk in its listed for $198
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My wife and I got them for198...
Loving the phone.
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Galaxy note 2 sprint price drop

When? With gs4 soon I want the gn2 as it should be cheap
Anyone know of any deals

colonel.shepard said:
When? With gs4 soon I want the gn2 as it should be cheap
Anyone know of any deals
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1) it hasn't even been released yet.
2) it won't release here until after it does over seas (international).
3) the price won't even drop since this is not the gs3...
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ac16313 said:
1) it hasn't even been released yet.
2) it won't release here took after it does over seas
3) the price might not drop since this is not the gs3...
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Galaxy s4 has already been released since Wednesday.
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mr pnut said:
Galaxy s4 has already been released since Wednesday.
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Release where?
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yellowman82 said:
Release where?
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My bad I misread the op but sprint should have it next month hopefully.
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Ok im really sorry but I dont ****ing get this there are 100 threads about if we are going to switch to gs4 or all that crap this phone has nothing to with galaxy line not even close I dont know why people asking all this question and what makes you ****ing think that with gs4 coming out they are going to drop the price, I hope they wont drop the price and actually raise it because I hate seeing cheap people on this section.
Good day
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On the box it's called the galaxy note 2 so it has something to do with the galaxy line. OP, Sprint won't drop the price for awhile. Maybe never. If you want it asap then look to other dealers or buying it used.

I doubt there's going to be a price drop on the Note 2. Not till the Note 3 anyways.. You guys are comparing a phablet to a phone. Price drop for the GS3? Sure, you can already get one practically free..
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shabgard said:
Ok im really sorry but I dont ****ing get this there are 100 threads about if we are going to switch to gs4 or all that crap this phone has nothing to with galaxy line not even close I dont know why people asking all this question and what makes you ****ing think that with gs4 coming out they are going to drop the price, I hope they wont drop the price and actually raise it because I hate seeing cheap people on this section.
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You really are hard headed. Really? Your mad that people want to pay less for a phone? Your blood pressure must be through the roof. Good luck
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He's just sad that he paid $300 for a phone that can now be had for anywhere between $70 - $180.

I bought my phone off the contract cause I wanted to keep my upgrade, I just hate it when people try to buy stuff they cant afford and ask stupid questions since note II is a phablet and not a phone.
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Just cuz sprint won't doesn't mean amazon or wirefly or lets talk wont

It's a phone. Stop making up words.
Frugality has nothing to do with wealth. In fact, frugal people tend to be those that actually have the most wealth.

shabgard said:
I bought my phone off the contract cause I wanted to keep my upgrade, I just hate it when people try to buy stuff they cant afford and ask stupid questions since note II is a phablet and not a phone.
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It's true. If you can't afford it at a certain price then don't buy it. But that's probably why they want to see it go down in price, because they can't afford higher price. Nothing wrong with that. Plus I saw an article that said s3 and note 2 aren't far off in costs to make. In the end the reason for price difference is the cell company trying to make more money cause phone is bigger. I guess it could cost them more but either way just look at the prices for the note 2, started at $299 for new customers, about 3 months and new customers were able to get it for $99 from Amazon.
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Lmfao so many people talking about the stupid prices of this phone. 3 things I have to say to ya.
1. Yea, it's a $600 its expensive.
2. No, we do not have to act like children to get what we want. Your not 9.
3. People. There's people out there who simply cant afford the best things in life. Some not even a peace of bread. Consider your self lucky to even own a phone. And stop trashing on other people who cant.
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Damn op was just asking one question? and certain people start jumping on him like he's supposed to have the money to buy a brand new device, REALLy..... its really sad that some cant ask a simple question without someone with a smart remark, come on guys this is a place for people to ask for help or just ask for some opinions, Not to bash on anyone for not having money. Grow up guys. Mods please close this thread thx.....
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anishannayya said:
It's a phone. Stop making up words.
Frugality has nothing to do with wealth. In fact, frugal people tend to be those that actually have the most wealth.
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He's not making up anything man. It IS called a phablet. Yes it's a phone too but it was designed as a tablet. I know the word phablet sounds really stupid but that's the chosen word I guess. How many phones out there have an SPen or have the features ours has? Think about it. Our device already does more than the gs4 ever will and once we get all the new software it will be even better.
Btw op watch the prices on Amazon.com. I got mine for $199 and I've seen it go as low as $169. It's different almost every day.
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Lol
Ill be waiting for amazon or someone to drop it to 99 I feel sorry for u idiots who paid full price on a phone lol

colonel.shepard said:
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Ill be waiting for amazon or someone to drop it to 99 I feel sorry for u idiots who paid full price on a phone lol
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Well seeing for the last 2 weeks on Amazon it's been at $249 maybe it will hit $99 sometime around when the Note 5 comes out for the IDIOTS that want to wait that long! I'm happy for what I have at $199 thank you very much!
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Its at 169 elsewhere yo so it'll get there